Definition of "whitelisting" []

• Present participle of whitelist. (verb)

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• "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.""
• "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."
• "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."