Watchkeeping observes what took place. Execution control decides what is permitted to take place in the first instance. On the machines holding whatever your company would least like to lose, an unapproved program does not start, which is a far shorter conversation than the forensic one that follows when it does.
Allowlisting is famous for being unbearable, and it earns the reputation every time somebody flips it on without preparation. Preparation is the service. For a set period the platform simply observes, and the roster of permitted software gets built from what your staff were genuinely running rather than from a starter template written for somebody else's company. Enforcement arrives afterward, by which point the tool your accounts department opens at 8am is already cleared.
The other classic failure is the update. ThreatLocker follows release trains for the products already cleared, so nobody's Tuesday morning is ruined by a minor version. That leaves only genuine novelty to argue about: a binary that came in by mail, a utility somebody grabbed to solve a problem, a payload with no business being anywhere near a finance workstation.
Cleared software is still software. Ringfencing decides how far a cleared program may go: which processes it launches, which files it opens, and which destinations it reaches. That is the mechanism keeping an ordinary document tool from being turned into a delivery vehicle, and it is the part of this station that repays every hour spent tuning it.
Clearance requests come to us, not to one of your managers. Someone holding the context makes the call, and the call is written down. That arrangement is why default deny survives several hundred seats rather than degenerating into a queue that nobody quietly owns.
Figures underneath arrive directly out of billing. Whatever gets logged waits in the logbook while you keep reading.
Cleared software starts. Nothing else does, and the refusal is written down. Because clearance requests come to our watch desk, the exception queue belongs to somebody by name rather than sitting in a mailbox nobody reads.
| Piloted on | ThreatLocker |
|---|---|
| Sounds | Every attempt to execute anything on the enrolled endpoint |
| Logged for | Refusals, clearances, and the name against each decision |
| Handed to | Fortify 24x7 engineers, who own the clearance queue |
| Charted by | Endpoint, monthly |
Line for line this is the strongest control in the catalog, and it is still not a wall around your company. Its edges are below.
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