Background

These pages explain ideas from the wider field rather than features of the product. They are here because the platform surfaces all of them, and a term you have not met is a term you cannot act on.

None of this assumes prior experience. What Is a YARA Rule? starts from why matching on file contents beats matching on a hash. What Are Hilbert Curves? teaches you to read the picture of a file's bytes. What Is a Public Suffix? is the one that decides what you can safely put in a blocklist.

Read them when you hit the term, or read them all in an afternoon and the rest of the site gets easier.