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What is Application Blacklisting?

Application Blacklisting prevents unwanted applications from running in your environment.

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  • Known trusted applications in a whitelist
  • Potentially trusted applications in an orangelist (also known as a graylist)
  • Everything else in a blacklist 

Exception Blacklist

The exception policy approach is a good initial step when you begin monitoring your environment to determine what applications are actually exceptions. If you were to Automatically blacklist all .exe files it would break common functionality and bring your enterprise to a standstill.

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  • Application attributes
  • File hash
  • Location
  • Untrusted application

Whitelisting

Orangelisting

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