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Wyman at ITSO wrote, 2/18/16:
- What we're trying to license for Cornell instead of an antivirus product is an application whitelisting product -- Bit9 (now Carbon Black), to be exact. These things are the inverse of antivirus. They work by enumerating exactly what's allowed to run and denying everything else. Known malware, unknown malware, new application software (unfortunately), exploits, you name it, if it's not on the allowed list, it doesn't go. The support issues, predictably, can be intimidating on unregulated end-user desktops. But on well managed desktops, or servers, it's extremely effective. Far more than antivirus could possibly be.
Faronics’s Anti-Executable Enterprise:
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