Control Access| Whitelist vs Blacklist
As the cyberattack are becoming more and more sophisticated is harder and harder to keep up with the attack response. One of the most important ways to do it is by placing restrictions on what can or cannot access the network. One of the most effective ways to doing is by listing entities on the Firewall. Ether whitelisting which is a list of what is allow on the network, or black listing which is what is not allow. Let's see it a bit more in detail and compare a bit both. Whitelist: The whitelisting approach defines which access should be permitting according to a predefine list and it blocks anything else. It is based on the principle of zero trust , which means that by default it blocks everything unless it is proven to be acceptable. A good example of whitelisting is a firewalls just allowing certain IP addresses to access into a network. Because Whitelisting denies by default any item that is not in the list, it is considered the stricter approach to access control. Mean
