by Joe Gleinser
8. November 2009 22:17
A total lack of faith in existing anti-virus products has forced us to watch Application Whitelisting technology for a while. A comprehensive review of several top products was recently posted over on Computerworld.com. It was nice to see fellow Austinites, CoreTrace, score so well. The article correctly tagged one of CoreTrace's best features, buffer overflow protection.
Though we have a close eye on Application Whitelisting, we have yet to deploy it for a single client. Frankly I'm terrified of user adoption issues. For this technology to succeed we will have to convince the users that the trading flexibility for security is worth it, or work with organizations that can afford to ignore user complaints. Winning hearts and minds is a losers game. Today I'm more convinced than ever that Application Whitelisting will be a hard sell. For those organizations that can stomach it, it could dramatically reduce time spent on virus and spyware issues.