The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt




Editor's Corner



Wow, this is actually major security news. I found this on the blog from

Coretrace, and they said: "This week, McAfee, one of the two dominant

forces in reactive, blacklist-based endpoint security, actively and

unequivocally endorsed Application Whitelisting. Ironically, in hard

coverage of Symantec’s recent problems with pcAnywhere, the industry is

actively recommending application whitelisting too." Here is the link:


http://www.coretraceblogs.com/2012-01/security-earthquake-that-nobody-felt-mcafee-endorses-application-whitelisting/







So, what is the big news? It turns security on its head. Instead of

keeping bad code out, with application whitelisting (also known as

Application Control) you only allow known-good code to run. That's

really a 180, and very, very interesting from a system admin perspective.







I have done some research in this area and have written a whitepaper

about whitelisting, and why as a system admin you should look into

this for the near future. This is a new security layer for your

'defense-in-depth'. You will hear more from me about whitelisting this year:


http://www.knowbe4.com/resources/the-endpoint-security-advantages-of-whitelisting-a-whitepaper-for-system-administrators/

 


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