Microsoft has made the life of system admins and IT admins a bit easier. The company recently announced that it had quietly made welcome changes to the way the AppLocker app control policies worked.

Windows AppLocker is a collection of Group Policy features you can use to control which applications are allowed to run on a system. First introduced with Windows 7, AppLocker was created as a ...

Tech pro ThioJoe demonstrates how configuring security policies in Windows AppLocker can effectively safeguard your PC ...

In the absence of many dramatically new product announcements (notices about the Office 2010 technical preview and Windows Mobile 6.5 were already expected), it was Senior Vice President Bill Veghte's ...

Users like to download all sorts of software to enterprise desktops, including music, photos, "productivity tools," games and Internet browsers. This is a monumental headache for the IT staffers ...

Microsoft’s AppLocker, the application control feature included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, is an improvement on the Software Restriction Policies (SRP) introduced with Windows XP ...

Windows 11's Controlled Folder Access offers a simple yet effective way to protect locally stored data from ransomware, even when AppLocker isn't in play. When it comes to data storage, I have long ...

It so happens that the topic of Whitelists vs. Blacklists comes up a lot when I’m talking to clients. The questions seem to always revolve around the pros and cons between these two methods of ...

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