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  • verb Present participle of whitelist.

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Examples

  • Often called whitelisting, this type of security control offers a possible lock-down technique, but the downside is that applications used within organizations by employees tend to grow, "and the trick is managing the whitelist over time."

    The pros and cons of Windows 7 security 2010

  • Bruno Guillard, the owner of 1plusV, said on Tuesday that Google had begun to make those pages findable again on its search engine as part of a process known as "whitelisting," which began after E.U. regulators began their formal investigation on Nov. 30.

    NYT > Home Page By JAMES KANTER 2011

  • I would rather not disable the username whitelisting to work around this.

    freshmeat.net Releases 2010

  • Often called whitelisting, this type of security control offers a possible lock-down technique, but the downside is that applications used within organizations by employees tend to grow, "and the trick is managing the whitelist over time."

    Techworld 2010

  • In addition to signatures, vendors now use additional techniques, such as application control (also called whitelisting), which allows only approved code to run; and host intrusion protection systems (HIPS), also called heuristics, which monitors code behavior.

    CSO Mary Brandel 2010

  • Application whitelisting, which is the notion of only allowing pre-determined applications to install and run on a network, is gaining a lot more mindshare from security teams than ever before.

    Independent Information Technology and business analysis from IT-Director.com 2009

  • Is whitelisting, which is the reverse of our current approach, the answer?

    ZDNET.com.au 2009

  • The extension is great but his tactics are terribly underhanded (namely whitelisting his personal site which has nothing to do with the extension).

    Waxy.org Links 2009

  • The unfortunate reality is that methods to reduce or eliminate spam have been around for a while, such as whitelisting or ISPs charging a small cost per email, but they're so Draconian they would all but destroy the concept of email.

    Five-year plan: 8 problems IT must solve Paul Venezia 2010

  • Sometimes called "whitelisting," this provides an external input validation shield over the application.

    CSO Mary Brandel 2010

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