The IT security industry has come to a frank realisation that the current approach to preventing malware is simply not working. Is whitelisting, which is the reverse of our current approach, the ...

Guilty until proven innocent. That’s the way I like to think of one of the most effective elements of a cybersecurity strategy. The strategy is called whitelisting, which turns the traditional ...

Thirty years ago IBM launched the XT5160 — the first hard drive DOS-based PC. But the computer virus, nowadays so seemingly tied to the PC, actually appeared almost a decade earlier. It took until ...

The customer is the real referee when it comes to judging whether whitelisting or blacklisting is superior Whitelisting: If it’s not on the list, it’s not coming in The fundamental principle that ...

Whitelisting technology that prevents unauthorized software from running on corporate servers and PCs is a way to prevent malware attacks but managing the package keeps the Burton Group, a division of ...

Whitelisting security has always taken a backseat to blacklisting approaches. After all, when there is far more good software running on computers and networks than bad software, it’s just easier to ...

If you’re trying to bar the door to malware infections, automated application whitelisting is a tactic that the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology thinks you should try — and the ...