Recently, eWEEK Labs took at look at the Microsoft’s emerging Windows security strategy of application whitelisting. The Windows feature, called Software Restriction Policies, or SRP, enables administrators to control whether applications and libraries are allowed to run on a Windows machine based on the path, digital certificate, hash or extension attributes of the executable in question. This feature in Microsoft Windows doesn’t offer the same granularity of control management capabilities as whitelisting options from third-party vendors, but there also are no extra licensing costs and it works well with Windows clients and servers.

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