Application

A quick look at the File Access Policy Analyzer, an open source tool simplifying application control implementation

Application control is a critical security control, allowing you to specifically authorise applications, processes and shared libraries. This blog introduces some ofthe resources you can use to learn more about application control, and get hands-on.

Automation allows organisations to scale security workflows across hybrid cloud environments. In this article I take a closer look at automating application control, and how you can use Ansible roles to create reusable automation content.

Injecting integrity checks to application control processes is a winning security combination. Application control allows you to specify that only certain processes can execute on a system - but how do you know they are the right processes? How can you ensure that the code that you want to execute is the code that actually executes?

Application control seems to be one of those elusive security controls that organisations spend years chasing. How can we validate which processes are authorised to run on a system, and then enforce this?