Eric Ogren

Application whitelisting, AWL, has had an ongoing love-hate relationship with anti-virus software since day one. Originally conceived as a positive IT-controlled approach to endpoint security that would compete head to head with negative attack-centric anti-virus, AWL has instead been searching for a more peaceful co-existence strategy. One approach that organizations are evaluating is using AWL and AV cooperatively in virtual desktop infrastructures, VDI. 

It is important that application whitelist approaches make allowances for differences in individual PCs. Each device is slightly different – it is very unlikely that a “one size fits all” approach will be pragmatic.