* The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt 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/ Warm regards, Stu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
