While servers host different applications (e.g., web, email, VoIP, SCADA, call centers), they are alike in one way: they are expected to have excellent performance and high availability.
Malware attacks impact both of those goals by stealing computing resources and creating system instability.
Traditional anti-malware solutions that use a “blacklist” of known malware threats cannot provide protection against today’s stealth and/or multi-variant attacks. And, trying to prevent infection by implementing reactive / emergency security patches has become a tremendous burden on already strained IT teams.
The new approach of “Application Whitelisting" changes the game entirely.
Application Whitelisting solutions simply allow only authorized applications to run on the server. By ensuring that only approved applications are running, server performance and availability are protected.
This approach is not only far more efficient and effective, but provides the end user organization with some incredibly important benefits. These include:
- Eliminate the task of Patching
- Ensures High Availability
- Does not burden the server with substantial security software overhead
- Eliminates the threat of "Zero Hour" attacks, those attacks that arrive before an update virus/malware definition file or knowledge of the attack
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