Meaning

(computer security, of a system) Physically isolated from the Internet or some other unsecured network..

Example Sentences

In addition to encrypting any sensitive e-mails, she began using different computers for editing film, for communicating and for reading sensitive documents (the one for sensitive documents is air-gapped, meaning it has never been connected to the Internet).

In the past two years a group of researchers in Israel has become highly adept at stealing data from air-gapped computers—those machines prized by hackers that, for security reasons, are never connected to the internet or connected to other machines that are connected to the internet, making it difficult to extract data from them.

It also appears that the controllers running the centrifuges were air gapped and not directly connected to the Internet.

At least twice, [Dario] Amodei also used an air-gapped computer to write critical strategy documents, connecting the machine directly to a printer to circulate only physical copies. He was paranoid about state actors stealing OpenAI’s secrets and building their own powerful AI models for malicious purposes.

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