Microsoft’s AppLocker, the application control feature included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, is an improvement on the Software Restriction Policies (SRP) introduced with Windows XP ...

Learn how to put AppLocker, BitLocker to Go, security accounts, and other key Windows 7 security improvements to good use Windows 7 has been warmly received and swiftly adopted by businesses, with the ...

Windows only: If you need to prevent an application from running accidentally or would like to disable an application you can't uninstall, AppLocker provides a simple interface to do so. Whether you'd ...

Malicious Trojans continue to plague end-users’ desktops, yet most machines aren’t exploited due to missing patches (although this is the second biggest cause), unpatched zero days (almost never a ...

One of the new capabilities touted for Windows 7 clients is something called “AppLocker,” which purports to do pretty much the same thing as Software Restriction Policies. AppLocker appears to be a ...

It so happens that the topic of Whitelists vs. Blacklists comes up a lot when I’m talking to clients. The questions seem to always revolve around the pros and cons between these two methods of ...

Windows 11's Controlled Folder Access offers a simple yet effective way to protect locally stored data from ransomware, even when AppLocker isn't in play. When it comes to data storage, I have long ...