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title: "Benefits of Whitelisting"
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# 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](https://support.perimeter81.com/v1/docs/site-to-site-interconnectivity-and-full-site-to-gateway-tunneling) 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 Check Point SASE application.