Application Whitelisting Best Practices: The Silver Bullet Nobody Uses

Podcast: The Backup Wrap-Up · W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup)

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

Application whitelisting best practices can stop malware your antivirus never sees coming, but almost nobody follows them. Dr. Mike Saylor joins Prasanna and me to talk about why, and what it really takes to build an approved software list that sticks. We start with SocGholish, a fake browser update campaign that’s been around since 2018. Every download is built just for the victim, so pattern-based tools can’t spot it. That’s exactly the kind of threat an approved software list shuts down. Then we get into the hard part. You have to inventory every applic...