Whitelisting

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The opposite of blacklisting, defined in the electronic age as the creation of a list of people or companies from whom a recipient will accept e-mail. Whitelisting filters out spam

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Many forms of whitelisting are focused on territories and jurisdictions, including the aforementioned asylum list and the gambling list that forms the case study for this article.

Letting the right ones in: whitelists, jurisdictional reputation, and the racial dynamics of online gambling regulation

Tom Moore, vice president of worldwide embedded security at McAfee, said: "By combining expertise and technology innovations from both Schneider Electric and McAfee, we will enhance the cybersecurity posture of critical infrastructure customers by providing dynamic whitelisting and ensuring that only approved applications will run, preventing unauthorized changes and access.

Schneider Electric, McAfee in cybersecurity deal

Our next generation application control provides everything needed for whitelisting from trusted sources and updaters to a cloud-based system which can rank unknown applications, reinforced with managed administrative privileges.

VIEWFINITY LAUNCHES NEW APPLICATION CONTROL

McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimized virtualization support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types

McAfee Launches New Data Center Security Suites

The McAfee Data Centre Security Suite for Server-Hypervisor Edition provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimised virtualization support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types and is licensed per Hypervisor.

McAfee launches four new data centre security suites

In the context of application whitelisting, the most interesting use of signed code to provide updates and patches for software.

Who is in control of your infrastructure today?

To attend this webinar and to learn more about the effectiveness of Bit9's adaptive application whitelisting solution in stopping modern cyber attacks, register for the “How to Stop Advanced Persistent Threats, Not Innovation” webcast online at http://www.

Bit9 to Present Webinar on How to Stop Advanced Persistent Threats, Not Innovation

While whitelisting technology has actually been around for many years, it hasn't received the same attention of its counterpart, anti-virus software, until recently, thanks to increasing threats like zero-day exploits and spear phishing.

Mitigating IT security risks with layers of security

lt;p>McAfee indicated its interest in the acquisition centered on Solidcore's whitelisting technology that can set controls on what applications are allowed to run on a computer.

McAfee to buy Solidcore for whitelisting technology

Upgrades to the policy engine help simplify whitelisting of approved business processes, and new decoders provide advanced webmail decoding, encrypted documents detection, and recognition of images embedded in files.

Protecting digital assets

This article is about the politics of whitelisting in commercial security.

The politics of whitelisting: regulatory work and topologies in commercial security