October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
9h 56m
English
A relative newcomer to the security space, at least as far as ICS security is concerned, is application whitelisting software. As we discussed earlier, in the Microsoft AppLocker section, application whitelisting is the practice of specifying a list of approved software applications that are permitted to be run on a computer system, while denying the execution of any remaining applications. The goal of application whitelisting is to protect computers from potentially harmful applications by only allowing the execution of programs that are verified to be secure and legit. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) suggests using application whitelisting in high-risk environments, where it is vitally ...
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