The control that actually stops ransomware
Every major endpoint protection vendor publishes a yearly report acknowledging that EDR is not enough. Living-off-the-land attacks, signed binaries, and zero-days defeat detection-based tools regularly. Default-deny application control is the one control that breaks the attack chain consistently - if PowerShell, WMI, MSHTA, or an unknown executable is not on the allowlist, it does not execute.
- Stops 100% of unapproved binaries
- Breaks fileless and living-off-the-land attacks
- Required or strongly recommended by CIS Controls, NIST 800-171, CMMC, and the ASD Essential Eight
- Most cyber insurance carriers now incentivize it

