What is Application Whitelisting?

This is common in sensitive contexts, such as the Payment Card Industry (PCI), where security breaches can bring serious damage to customers. Should an organization grant access to malware or an insecure piece of software, the potential fallout could include financial damages to millions of users worldwide. Another benefit to using application whitelisting is that doing so can simplify software license compliance. To be fair, most application whitelisting tools are not designed to perform license metering. In some ways, the use of antivirus software is similar to application blacklisting. The antivirus software explicitly forbids the execution of software that is known to be malicious. Often, a user or department requests access to a specific approved application or to a remote […]

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