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Application control projects do not fail because the technology is hard. They fail because the environment was not ready for the control before it was introduced.
WDAC documentation teaches the syntax. The hard part is the operating model around it: approvals, exception handling, lifecycle ownership, and what happens at 4pm on a Friday.
Most application control programs stall not because the technology fails, but because they were treated as a deployment instead of a capability that needs an operating model.
Essential Eight and E8 expectations are easy to state but harder to operationalise without disciplined WDAC policy lifecycle management.