On: A case against security nihilism

[allendoerfer]

You would use "protection" (Schutz) to make this distinction. Also German verbs can have many suffixes, which often help with the direction of an action and thereby changing the meaning (e.g. sichern, absichern, besichern, versichern).

[kwhitefoot → allendoerfer]

suffixes -> prefixes