CoreTrace White Paper Sample

The concept of “Application Whitelisting” is simple: if an application is not expressly defined to be run on a machine — it is stopped dead in its tracks.

Ten or fifteen years ago, this idea would have been absurd. Why wouldn’t you want to run applications at-will on machines?

But today’s threats from Internet worms, viruses, and malware make the list of evil applications truly endless. There is also the constant threat of users manually downloading and running not-so-nice “helper” applications (which display the weather, play a game, show a cute screensaver) but secretly deliver your company’s information to the bad guys.