denylist

English edit

Noun edit

denylist (plural denylists)

Synonym of blacklist
Antonym: allowlist
- 2021, Andrew Martin, Michael Hausenblas, Hacking Kubernetes‎^[1], O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
  Intrusion detection can inspect file, network, and kernel reads and writes to verify or block them with an allowlist or a denylist (as seccomp-bpf configuration does).

Verb edit

denylist (third-person singular simple present denylists, present participle denylisting, simple past and past participle denylisted)

Synonym of blacklist
Antonym: allowlist
- 2022, Jennifer Minella, Wireless Security Architecture […] ‎^[2], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
  Remediation can entail contacting the user and instructing them to cease; it could be autoremediation by reconfiguring a managed endpoint, or it could be to denylist the device MAC address(es).

Usage notes edit

This term is promoted by some who claim that the term blacklist is objectionable on grounds of skin colour. Compare whitelist and allowlist.