Interesting to see what mitigation can be done against data file exploits other than AV and patching. Might have a look into this a bit closer.
---Blackberried -----Original Message----- From: "Crawford, Scott" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:48:46 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: RE: Whitelisting good question, but it's MUCH easier than whitelisting all good data files. I would expect the blacklist scanner to look for signatures of application exploits. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Rankin, James R Sent: 4/14/2012 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Whitelisting How do you blacklist all possible bad data files? ------Original Message------ From: Crawford, Scott To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whitelisting Sent: 14 Apr 2012 18:02 A combination is needed. Whitelisting for traditional executable code and blacklisting for data files that exploit vulnerable white listed applications. -----Original Message----- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Whitelisting I'm curious, what's the general feeling about about whitelisting? As a former AV guy, I tend to prefer blacklisting, but I'm seeing signs things might be changing. Thoughts? ~ 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 ~ 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 ---Blackberried ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ 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
