Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Airlock Digital v7.0 introduces features designed to reduce the operational burden of application control deployment
- New capabilities include guided trust recommendations, application-level visibility, and enhanced policy testing
- The webinar addresses common challenges around manual policy management and troubleshooting inefficiencies
- Relevant for IT security professionals, system administrators, and security engineers in medium to large organisations
- Focuses on enforcing least privilege principles without compromising end-user productivity
Introduction
Application control remains one of the most effective techniques for preventing unauthorised software execution on endpoints, yet many organisations struggle to implement it at scale. The operational overhead associated with maintaining allowlists, troubleshooting blocked applications, and managing policy exceptions often undermines the security benefits. Airlock Digital’s webinar on version 7.0 of its platform examines how recent product developments aim to address these persistent challenges.
About This Event
This live webinar provides a technical overview of Airlock Digital v7.0, featuring product demonstrations from the company’s specialists. The session is structured around practical use cases, showing how the new release handles real-world scenarios that security teams encounter when deploying and maintaining application control across enterprise environments.
Addressing Operational Complexity in Application Control
Application allowlisting has long been recognised as a powerful defensive measure, recommended by frameworks such as the Australian Signals Directorate’s Essential Eight. However, the gap between theoretical effectiveness and practical implementation has historically been significant. Security teams frequently cite the manual effort required to build and maintain trust policies as a primary barrier to adoption.
Airlock Digital v7.0 introduces several features intended to reduce this friction. Guided trust recommendations provide administrators with contextual suggestions when evaluating whether to permit specific applications, drawing on execution data and application metadata. This approach shifts some of the analytical burden from security personnel to the platform itself, potentially accelerating policy decisions while maintaining appropriate oversight.
The enhanced Policy Tester allows teams to simulate policy changes before deployment, identifying potential conflicts or unintended blocks in a controlled environment. For organisations managing diverse software estates across multiple business units, this capability can significantly reduce the risk of operational disruption during policy updates.
Visibility and Privilege Management
Effective application control depends on comprehensive visibility into what software is actually executing across an environment. Without this foundation, security teams operate with incomplete information, making it difficult to distinguish between legitimate business applications and potentially unwanted software.
The new release emphasises application-level visibility, providing granular insight into execution patterns rather than relying solely on file-based detection. This distinction matters because modern software often comprises multiple components, and understanding application behaviour at a higher level of abstraction can simplify policy creation.
Application-level privilege elevation represents another significant addition. Organisations implementing least privilege principles often encounter resistance when users require elevated permissions for specific tasks. The ability to grant temporary, scoped elevation for particular applications—rather than broad administrative rights—helps balance security requirements with operational needs.
Who Should Attend
The webinar is designed for practitioners responsible for endpoint security strategy and implementation. IT security professionals evaluating application control solutions will find the technical demonstrations relevant, as will system administrators currently managing allowlisting policies who seek more efficient workflows. Security engineers interested in privilege management approaches and decision-makers assessing the operational feasibility of application control for their organisations represent the core audience.
The Broader Context for Application Control
As ransomware and supply chain attacks continue to challenge traditional perimeter-based defences, application control has gained renewed attention as a preventive measure that operates at the endpoint level. The technique complements detection-focused tools by preventing unauthorised code from executing in the first place, rather than identifying malicious activity after the fact. For organisations subject to regulatory requirements or compliance frameworks that mandate application allowlisting, solutions that reduce operational complexity while maintaining security efficacy address a genuine market need.