Application Allowlisting
Noun · Security & Infosec
Definitions
Application Allowlisting is a security concept, control, or technique used to reduce risk and improve visibility across systems and data. Security teams use it to enforce trust, reduce exposure, improve detection, or standardize secure operations in production environments. Its value depends on correct configuration, lifecycle management, and surrounding controls, because weak defaults, poor integration, or missing visibility can create gaps that attackers exploit.
In plain English: Application Allowlisting is a security concept or control that helps organizations protect systems, manage trust, and notice suspicious behavior before damage spreads.
Example: "After the review, the security team rolled out Application Allowlisting in the affected environment, documented the operating procedure, and verified through logs and test cases that the control reduced exposure without breaking normal administrative or user workflows."
Related Terms
- Account Takeover
- Anti-Debugging
- Anti-Tamper
- API Abuse
- Binary Analysis
- Binary Patching
- Card Skimming
- Click Fraud
- Code Obfuscation
- Command and Control
- Data Exfiltration
- Data Poisoning
- Defense in Depth
- Denial of Service
- Directory Traversal
- DoS Amplification
- Double Free
- Drive-by Download
- Eavesdropping
- Evil Twin
- Human Firewall
- Integer Overflow
- Jailbreak
- Kerberoasting
- MAC Flooding
- Macro Virus
- Malicious Insider
- Man-in-the-Browser
- Mass Assignment
- Man-in-the-Middle
- RASP
- Application Hardening
- Computer Network Defense