denylist

English

Noun

denylist (plural denylists)

1. 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

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

1. 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

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