sécurisés

Sécurisés is the masculine plural form of the French past participle of the verb sécuriser, and is commonly used as an adjective meaning secured or safeguarded. It denotes that a thing has undergone measures to protect it from risk, danger, or unauthorized access. In practice, sécurisés appears in contexts ranging from information security to physical security.

The verb sécuriser means to make safe, protect, or guarantee security. The term is related to sécurité, meaning security or safety. Sécuriser is a productive verb in French, forming tenses with auxiliary verbs and yielding various participle forms that must agree in gender and number with the noun they describe or with the preceding direct object in compound tenses.

Grammar and usage notes: When sécuriser is used with the auxiliary être in compound tenses, the past participle agrees with the subject in gender and number, for example, Les systèmes sont sécurisés. When sécuriser is used with the auxiliary avoir, agreement follows the preceding direct object; for instance, Ils ont sécurisé les accès (the participle remains uninflected as a main verb in this form, while sécurité-like adjectives such as sécurisés are used for modification). As an adjective, sécurisés serves to describe nouns: canaux sécurisés, données sécurisées, bâtiments sécurisés.

Common contexts in which sécurisés appears include information technology and data protection (données sécurisées, connexions sécurisées), finance and commerce (transactions sécurisées), and physical security (sites sécurisés). The term is often contrasted with unsecured or insecure, and with related nouns such as sécurité (security) and sécurisation (the process of making something secure).

See also: sécurité, sécurisation, sécuriser, données sécurisées, réseaux sécurisés.