A tool crib works because the window is the only way through. Ask for the thing, sign for the thing, and everything else stays on the far side of a counter. One line here applies that same discipline to software.
Most endpoint products ask one question: have I met this before? Allowlisting asks a better one: was this signed for? Approved programs, libraries and scripts launch. The rest gets turned away, be it novel malware, a script somebody downloaded to solve a problem at four on a Friday, or a perfectly respectable tool nobody thought to mention.
That refusal is the entire product. It leans on nothing having been seen before, which is why it holds against software written last week for the express purpose of walking past scanners.
The opening weeks generate traffic. Learning observes what your machines truly run and composes a list from that, then enforcement comes on and the exceptions start arriving. Fortify 24x7 engineers field those requests whenever they land, and that alone separates a control still switched on in month three from one quietly turned off in month two.
Version bumps get tracked on their own, so the routine business of software updating itself never becomes a queue somebody has to sit and clear.
Approved software launches. Everything else waits at the counter.
Figures below are read straight from billing. Whatever you sign out waits on your roll while you keep reading.
Refuse by default. Approved programs, libraries and scripts are permitted to launch and the remainder is turned away, which is a wholly different wager from asking a scanner whether the thing looks familiar. A learning spell runs first, so the list mirrors software your firm genuinely uses.
| Fits | A single endpoint, whoever ends up sharing it. |
|---|---|
| Works on | Endpoints and servers running Windows, and Macs as well. |
| Stored for | Approvals and policy edits are kept the whole time the line hangs there. |
| Issued by | ThreatLocker, with policy drawn and kept current by Fortify 24x7 engineers. |
| Inspected by | Fortify 24x7 engineers, fielding elevation traffic at any hour. |
One line, and a strong one. It is narrow by design, so here is how far the reach extends.
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