Whitelisting is a security measure that involves creating a list of approved or safe items, such as email addresses or IP addresses, and blocking all others. This approach is used to ensure that only trusted items have access to a system or network and can be used to prevent malicious software, spam, and other unwanted or potentially harmful items from entering the system or network. In other words, whitelisting is a security strategy that allows only known good actors to access a network or a particular application or service.