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Application Blacklisting prevents unwanted applications from running in your environment, which protects your network from malware threats.
Arellia's Application Control Solution allows you to manage applications flexibly in a large, distributed client environment by putting:
- known trusted applications in a whitelist
- potentially trusted applications in an orangelist (also known as a graylist)
- everything else in a blacklist
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Automated blacklists are problematic, as they will break common functionality.
Exception An exception blacklist will block any software that is not covered by Whitelist or Orangelist policies. Exception Blacklisting should only be implemented after much analysis, end user education, and policy refinement. An exception blacklist will block any software that is not covered by Whitelist or Orangelist policies. Blacklisting Exceptions
[[What's the difference between an Automated Blacklist and an Exception Blacklist?]]
Exception policy. . .this approach is a good initial step when rolling out policies as often times you don’t know what applications are actually exceptions. A policy will be created to blacklist or deny any policies that didn’t don’t meet the Whitelist whitelist or Orangelist orangelist criteria. Prevent unnecessary helpdesk calls, create a custom message for the blacklist policy.
Blacklisting optionsYou can add applications to a blacklist using some of the following criteria:
- Application attributes
- File hash
- Location
- Untrusted applications
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