Toney Jennings

Oct

by Toney Jennings

“Application whitelisting is becoming a foundational element of endpoint security.”

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Founder, CEO and Chairman of WheelGroup Corporation and a former officer in the Air Force Information Warfare Center

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Toney is President and CEO of CoreTrace. He has led teams in the information protection and information technology fields for over 18 years. Toney came to CoreTrace from Mirage Networks, where he was president and CEO. Under Toney's leadership, Mirage Networks became a recognized leader in network access control with hundreds of customers and thousands of units sold. Prior to Mirage Networks, Toney was a founder, CEO, and Chairman of WheelGroup Corporation, the creators of the first commercially-available intrusion detection system, through its successful sale to Cisco Systems. Earlier in his career, Toney led teams at Trident Data Systems and as an officer at the Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC), conducting penetration testing and vulnerability assessments of operational Department of Defense (DoD) networks.

Nov

What do the recent dramatic changes in the security industry signal about the future of endpoint protection?

by Toney Jennings Comments

Whether we like it or not, endpoint security is undergoing the beginning of a big shift. Recent consolidation signals the beginning of a transition in the way we provide endpoint protection and the role traditional blacklist antivirus plays to that end. Endpoint protection, instead of relying on an after-the-fact technology that defeats threats by having seen them and distributing signatures, is moving toward a foundation of application whitelisting for prevention and application intelligence with blacklisting playing an auditing and cleaning role.

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