19 August 2026•4 min read
Application control you own versus application control you rent
Agent-based allowlisting products enforce through their agent. When the agent goes, enforcement goes with it. WDAC enforcement is built into Windows.
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30 July 2026•3 min read
Build versus buy for application control: the in-house engineer is the expensive option
Over a five year period, a specialist who has delivered application control repeatedly costs less than an internal engineer learning it once.
22 July 2026•5 min read
The internal scripting problem application control cannot solve alone
Application control blocks unsigned code by design. The answer is not a policy exception, it is a signing pipeline.
20 June 2026•3 min read
The real cost of a stalled application control project
A half-finished application control rollout is the most expensive kind there is. The budget is spent, the posture has not moved, and the meter is still running.