Application whitelisting on critical Windows systems: useful or not?

Application whitelisting is the practice of specifying an index of approved software applications that are permitted to be present and active on a computer system. The main goal to protect critical systems from potentially malicious applications. How it works? The general concept behind application whitelisting is quite simple. Instead of attempting to block malicious files…

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