Application Whitelisting: Approaches and Challenges

Malware is a continuously evolving problem for enterprise networks and home computers. Even security aware users using updated security solutions fall into trap of zero day attacks. Moreover, blacklisting based solutions suffer from problems of false positives and false negatives. From here, idea of Application whitelisting was coined among security vendors and various solutions were evolved with same underlying technology idea. This paper provides the details about design and implementation approaches and discusses challenges while developing an effective whitelisting solution.