Security
Whitelisting refers to the practice of explicitly allowing access only from a predefined list of trusted entities. These entities can be IP addresses, domains, or even specific API keys.
Whitelisting presents the following benefits:
Reduced Attack Surface
By limiting access to only trusted sources, you significantly reduce the potential attack surface and the risk of unauthorized access.
Prevention of Abuse
Whitelisting can help prevent malicious use of your API credentials from unknown or compromised systems.
Enhanced Security
It adds an extra layer of security beyond basic authentication (like API keys). Even if an API key is compromised, requests originating from non-whitelisted sources will be blocked.
Be aware of the following impacts of whitelisting:
Exclusive Access
When an IP address is whitelisted, only traffic originating from that specific IP address (or the specified IP addresses) will be allowed to access the requested interface(s). All other IP addresses will be denied access.
Immediate Effect
Once the IP address(es) have been successfully added to the whitelist, the changes will take effect immediately.
Updated about 2 months ago