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Blacklisting

What is Blacklisting?

A security approach that blocks known malicious entities such as IP addresses, domains, or file hashes while allowing everything else by default.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as blacklisting. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on blacklisting

Requirements naming blacklisting across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

Member States shall prohibit any form of retaliation against protected reporting persons, including threats and attempts of retaliation (e.g.

WB-Art.19 · Prohibition of retaliation →

Permitted: complying with a boycotting country's import requirements barring goods or services from the boycotted country, its concerns, nationals or residents (not across-the-board refusals, and with information limits);

ear-export-administration-regulations::760.3 · 760.3 Exceptions to the prohibitions →

The organization should treat as detrimental conduct any act or omission prompted by a report that harms or could harm the whistleblower, whether deliberate or not, whether the report is the only cause, one cause or a contributing cause, and including detrimen...

iso-37002-2021-whistleblowing-management-systems::8.4.3 · 8.4.3 Addressing detrimental conduct →

Questions people ask about blacklisting

What is Blacklisting?
A security approach that blocks known malicious entities such as IP addresses, domains, or file hashes while allowing everything else by default.
Why is Blacklisting important for compliance?
Blacklisting is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding blacklisting helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Blacklisting?
Blacklisting appears in the requirement text of Directive (EU) 2019/1937 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law, EAR - Export Administration Regulations, ISO 37002:2021 - Whistleblowing Management Systems, Kazakhstan Law on Personal Data and Their Protection (No. 94-V). Across these standards we have identified 4 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Blacklisting?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how blacklisting applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Blacklisting applies across compliance frameworks

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