whitelist

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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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

1 more sense beyond the canonical

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

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: whitelists
possessive: whitelist's
pluralpossessive: whitelists'

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