Defense in depth (computing)

Defense in depth - in information security, the placing of multiple layers of security controls throughout an IT system to provide redundancy in the event a security control fails. Article "Defense in depth (computing)" in English Wikipedia has 30.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in Simple English Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article "Defense in depth (computing)", its content was written by 74 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 117 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in English Wikipedia and cited 48 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #58866 in September 2019
• Global: #137766 in September 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #137723 in November 2018
• Global: #237103 in November 2018

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Simple English (simple) Defense in depth (computing)		38.8639
2	English (en) Defense in depth (computing)		30.8721
3	Romanian (ro) Apărare în straturi (informatică)		20.6933
4	Polish (pl) Dogłębna obrona (informatyka)		11.1327
5	Japanese (ja) 多層防御 (セキュリティ)		9.2382
6	Arabic (ar) دفاع في العمق (كمبيوتر)		8.7695
7	Korean (ko) 레이어드 시큐리티		1.1714

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Defense in depth (computing)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defense in depth (computing)		976 468
2	Japanese (ja) 多層防御 (セキュリティ)		56 358
3	Simple English (simple) Defense in depth (computing)		14 704
4	Arabic (ar) دفاع في العمق (كمبيوتر)		9 377
5	Polish (pl) Dogłębna obrona (informatyka)		8 616
6	Korean (ko) 레이어드 시큐리티		1 482
7	Romanian (ro) Apărare în straturi (informatică)		135

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Defense in depth (computing)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defense in depth (computing)		3 306
2	Japanese (ja) 多層防御 (セキュリティ)		127
3	Simple English (simple) Defense in depth (computing)		72
4	Polish (pl) Dogłębna obrona (informatyka)		39
5	Romanian (ro) Apărare în straturi (informatică)		29
6	Arabic (ar) دفاع في العمق (كمبيوتر)		27
7	Korean (ko) 레이어드 시큐리티		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Defense in depth (computing)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defense in depth (computing)		74
2	Japanese (ja) 多層防御 (セキュリティ)		16
3	Arabic (ar) دفاع في العمق (كمبيوتر)		14
4	Korean (ko) 레이어드 시큐리티		4
5	Polish (pl) Dogłębna obrona (informatyka)		4
6	Simple English (simple) Defense in depth (computing)		3
7	Romanian (ro) Apărare în straturi (informatică)		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Defense in depth (computing)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Romanian (ro) Apărare în straturi (informatică)		2
2	Arabic (ar) دفاع في العمق (كمبيوتر)		0
3	English (en) Defense in depth (computing)		0
4	Japanese (ja) 多層防御 (セキュリティ)		0
5	Korean (ko) 레이어드 시큐리티		0
6	Polish (pl) Dogłębna obrona (informatyka)		0
7	Simple English (simple) Defense in depth (computing)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Defense in depth (computing)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Defense in depth (computing)		25
2	Japanese (ja) 多層防御 (セキュリティ)		8
3	Polish (pl) Dogłębna obrona (informatyka)		4
4	Arabic (ar) دفاع في العمق (كمبيوتر)		3
5	Korean (ko) 레이어드 시큐리티		3
6	Romanian (ro) Apărare în straturi (informatică)		3
7	Simple English (simple) Defense in depth (computing)		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دفاع في العمق (كمبيوتر)
en	English Defense in depth (computing)
ja	Japanese 多層防御 (セキュリティ)
ko	Korean 레이어드 시큐리티
pl	Polish Dogłębna obrona (informatyka)
ro	Romanian Apărare în straturi (informatică)
simple	Simple English Defense in depth (computing)

Best Rank

English: #137723 11.2018

Global: #237103 11.2018

Best Rank

English: #58866 09.2019

Global: #137766 09.2019

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