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whitelist

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

A list of discrete entities, such as hosts or applications that are known to be benign and are approved for use within an organization and/or information system.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

A list of entities that are considered trustworthy and are granted access or privileges.

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed —

Information Class

—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed —

Variants

plural
whitelists
possessive
whitelist's
pluralpossessive
whitelists'