• Cloud Edge Secure Access
• Networks
  • Private DNS
  • DNS Filtering
  • Routes
  • Split Tunneling
  • Site-to-Site Interconnectivity
  • Multi-Tunneling
  • Dynamic-IP Tunnels
  • Whitelisting Resources
    • Benefits of Whitelisting
    • Microsoft Azure
    • SalesForce
    • AWS Management Console
    • Google Cloud Platform
• Client-Based Access
  • MDM App Deployment
  • SCCM Agent Deployment
  • JAMF Cloud
• Client-less Access (Zero Trust Applications)
  • URL Aliasing
  • RDP Security Mode
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Benefits of Whitelisting

This article describes what whitelisting is. Whitelisting is the practice of explicitly allowing some identified entities access to a particular privilege, service, mobility, access, or recognition.

While IP whitelisting does not encrypt your data the way a site-to-site connection does, it can come in handy if you'd like to save time and avoid the trouble to set one up, as it still limits access to your resources - an entire network or a specific machine or application. Once whitelisting your gateway IP, the resource will be accessible only for devices using this particular IP, that is, connected to the SonicWall.