What is shorting?

In short, shorting amounts to betting against a given stock; a good summary can be found in the following article, including warnings about the associated risks:

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That being said, recommendations are made according to the best of our expert knowledge of the cyber field, widely recognized across the board (I was notably nominated SC27's representative to the Global Cybersecurity Index's weightage experts group). Note however that other factors might overrule our predictions and are outside of our domain of expertise. That is why we focus on tech stocks, whose good or bad data hygiene plays an increasingly crucial regulatory and reputational role, directly impacting some, as per our experience before, during and after the pandemic, and amidst a multi-trilion cybercriminality pandemic.