IP Black Listing and White Listing

IP Blacklisting is a two stage process of process of identifying and then refusing access to specified IP addresses.

These IP addresses are from computers attempting to perform illicit activities. Usually negatively towards the product or service.

BE maintains blacklists of machines attempting to break in, disrupt service or other negative reasons.

These black lists are added in a number of places.

The HTTPS engine of bxp software, i.e. refusal to all instances of BE. The SFTP engine of bxp software, i.e. refusal to all SFTP instances of BE.

1 HTTPS

In BE it is possible to add limiting to users to Whitelist, but not Blacklist.

BE maintains Blacklisting in its core engine. This is not configurable by end users.

2 SFTP

Blacklisting is managed server side as per the instructions here:

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