Application Control and Allowlisting Solution

Airlock Digital Application Control protects our company's products and computers by allowing us to whitelist only trusted applications to be downloaded onto our devices and block any unauthorized software from running on our devices.

Our IT team primarily uses Airlock Digital Application Control, and my team and I work on the Airlock system. It helps us considerably because we have blocked many unauthorized applications manually from the workflows, and now those unauthorized applications cannot be downloaded onto our devices.

Security is the key point regarding my main use case and how my team interacts with Airlock Digital Application Control.

The application allowlist is the main use case and the main standout feature because we have allowed some applications that are authorized by our management and IT team to be accessed by users and employees. This helps considerably so employees cannot access any unauthorized or unallowed application to run.

Airlock Digital Application Control offers excellent organization and easy policy management. It is simple to create and update policies across multiple devices and helps with the default deny policy. Any unknown or unauthorized software is blocked from our side and will not be allowed to download or be accessed on any of our organization's devices.

Airlock Digital Application Control has impacted our organization very positively. Earlier, we experienced some malware and security threats because employees downloaded unauthorized applications, and we had many security issues. After applying Airlock Digital Application Control, it has helped us considerably. Now we have end-to-end security and end-to-end visibility on any device, including what employees download and what they cannot download. We have control of everything in our hands.

Since we implemented Airlock Digital Application Control, we have seen around a fifty percent reduction in unauthorized software installations. Earlier, many of our employees could easily download unauthorized software from third-party websites. We have also reduced the time spent investigating endpoint security issues because only approved applications are allowed to run. Overall, it has improved our security, reduced our manual effort, and helped my team and the management team.

The clarity and speed of the new user interface compared to the previous version are definitely improvements. The previous version was good, but the newer version is very reliable. When any new user comes in, the new interface is definitely an improvement. It is very clear and easier to navigate for any user, and our day-to-day tasks such as reviewing policies, checking blocked applications, and managing approvals take less time than before. Overall, it feels like a more responsive product and is helpful for our work.

Airlock Digital Application Control should provide a very detailed user manual because when we were new to this application, it was a bit confusing. If we received a very easy manual and enough data to learn about it, it would be easier to use.

Integration is easy, but the main thing is the user manual. If it can be improved, then it would be best for us.

I have been using Airlock Digital Application Control for more than six months.

Airlock Digital Application Control is very stable. We are currently using it and it remains very stable.

Airlock Digital Application Control is very scalable. We are currently using it with multiple resources and it scales very effectively.

The customer support for Airlock Digital Application Control is good. Earlier we experienced some issues, and they were available for us and helped us resolve them. I would rate the customer support for Airlock Digital Application Control ten out of ten because it helped us considerably.

We were not using any other solution. We were managing things manually.

The main return on investment is that all our devices are now secured end-to-end for security purposes. We work with international clients, and each of them has their own policies and data security requirements. Because of Airlock Digital Application Control, we can deliver on those requirements very easily. The return on investment is mainly on security and also on time. Earlier we had to spend much more time investigating what the issue was, and now we can prevent issues and reduce our time spent while improving security.

Pricing and setup cost for Airlock Digital Application Control are very low. I think any new company that wants to start with Airlock Digital Application Control will find the charges very nominal, and even the licensing pricing is not too much.

Before choosing Airlock Digital Application Control, we did not evaluate any other solution. We directly went with this solution.

Regarding Airlock Digital Application Control's AI capabilities, the governance and the security are very powerful. It gives us end-to-end security on any devices that belong to the company and it improves governance. Overall, it gives very strong end-to-end security and end-to-end visibility on each and every device.

In terms of the accuracy and reliability of output, we heavily rely on Airlock Digital Application Control because all the company devices rely on it. It is very reliable. Currently, we are almost fully reliant on Airlock Digital Application Control's security.

The granular policy control offered by Airlock Digital Application Control is very powerful. We have created different policies based on the user, based on the department, and also based on the device. We do not have to use one rule for everyone. It gives us better control on any device or department and keeps the management simple.

The use of Airlock Digital Application Control's policy creation wizard has impacted my daily management tasks considerably. Our day-to-day tasks have been reduced. It simply creates and updates policies. We have created multiple policies much faster with fewer errors. It reduces the amount of manual work in our day-to-day management.

We have changed our policies based on the department, and we use the policy change tracking to quickly identify when and why a rule has to be updated. It makes troubleshooting and compliance much easier.

The single SKU licensing model has affected our organization's budget very positively. Having a single licensing model makes it easier and more cost-efficient to manage revenue and avoid unexpected license expenses. It is much simpler compared to solutions with multiple add-ons.

Utilizing Airlock Digital Application Control has helped prevent malware within our systems. It helps our organization prevent unauthorized hacking and similar threats. We have had instances where unknown applications were downloaded by a user. Airlock Digital Application Control blocked them because they were not approved. This prevented malware and reduced the amount of manual investigation.

If you are working with any client or sensitive data, then use Airlock Digital Application Control because it gives end-to-end security on your devices. You get very high control on the devices regarding what resources they download and what things to avoid, and it blocks any unauthorized applications. It helps prevent threats to our devices. I would rate this product nine out of ten overall.

My main use case for Airlock Digital Application Control is to implement application whitelisting, prevent unauthorized software from running, and strengthen endpoint security against malware and ransomware.

A specific example of how I have used Airlock Digital Application Control in my environment is when this product blocked an unauthorized executable downloaded through email from running on an employee's workstation, preventing a potential malware infection while allowing approved business applications to continue operating normally.

The best features that Airlock Digital Application Control offers are application whitelisting, trusted application control, centralized policy management, audit mode, and detailed application visibility and reporting.

The centralized policy management feature allows us to create, deploy, and update application control policies from a single console, making it much easier to enforce consistent security across all endpoints, roll out changes quickly, and reduce the time spent managing individual devices.

One feature that stands out in Airlock Digital Application Control is audit mode, which lets you test application control policies before enforcing them, helping fine-tune rules, minimize false positives, and ensure a smoother deployment across the organization.

Airlock Digital Application Control has positively impacted my organization by improving endpoint security, reducing malware and ransomware risk, decreasing unauthorized software installation, and giving the IT team greater visibility and control over application execution across the organization.

The use of Airlock Digital's policy creation wizard impacts my daily management tasks by significantly reducing the time needed to create and deploy application control policies. It simplifies onboarding new applications, helps minimize configuration errors, and makes day-to-day policy management more efficient, especially across a large number of endpoints.

Airlock Digital Application Control is highly scalable, allowing organizations to expand protection across thousands of endpoints without major performance issues. It supports centralized policy management, easy onboarding of new devices, and consistent application control enforcement across diverse environments.

Airlock Digital Application Control could be improved with a better management interface, richer reporting and analytics, broader third-party integrations, and simpler policy creation for large or complex environments.

I have been using Airlock Digital Application Control for around eight months.

In my experience, Airlock Digital Application Control is very stable and reliable. It runs consistently across endpoints with minimal downtime, maintains dependable policy enforcement, and performs well even in larger environments with many users and applications.

Airlock Digital Application Control is highly scalable, allowing organizations to expand protection across thousands of endpoints without major performance issues. It supports centralized policy management, easy onboarding of new devices, and consistent application control enforcement across diverse environments.

Customer support for Airlock Digital Application Control is responsive and knowledgeable, providing timely assistance during deployment, troubleshooting, and policy configuration. The support team is helpful in resolving issues and providing guidance on best practices for application control management.

I previously used Microsoft AppLocker and traditional endpoint security controls before switching to Airlock Digital Application Control because it provided stronger application allowlisting capabilities, better centralized management, improved visibility, and easier policy enforcement across a large number of endpoints.

I evaluated other options, including Microsoft AppLocker, ThreatLocker, Ivanti Application Control, and CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager before selecting Airlock Digital Application Control due to its strong application allowlisting capabilities, ease of management, and focus on endpoint application control.

I evaluated other options, including Microsoft AppLocker, ThreatLocker, Ivanti Application Control, and CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager before selecting Airlock Digital Application Control due to its strong application allowlisting capabilities, ease of management, and focus on endpoint application control.

Since implementing Airlock Digital Application Control, we have seen around a 50 to 60% reduction in unauthorized application incidents, 30 to 40% less time spent investigating endpoint security events, and lower malware remediation costs, resulting in measurable operational savings and improved IT efficiency.

The deployment of Airlock Digital Application Control required minimal infrastructure investment, and the predictable licensing structure made it easier to plan budgets and scale application control coverage across endpoints.

I evaluated other options, including Microsoft AppLocker, ThreatLocker, Ivanti Application Control, and CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager before selecting Airlock Digital Application Control due to its strong application allowlisting capabilities, ease of management, and focus on endpoint application control.

My advice to others looking into using Airlock Digital Application Control is to start with a clear application control strategy, use audit mode before enforcing policies, involve application owners early, and gradually roll out controls across the environment. Proper planning and tuning help reduce false positives and ensure a smooth deployment. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.

My main use case for Airlock Digital Application Control is to enforce application allow listing across our Windows endpoints so that only approved and trusted software can run. The goal was to reduce the risk of malware, ransomware, and unauthorized applications without disrupting normal business operations.

In our day-to-day work, we use it to review requests for new software, verifying that the application is legitimate and then approve it through the appropriate policy so users can run it without needing local administrator privileges. A typical example is when a business team needs a new finance or engineering application that is not already approved. Instead of giving the user elevated access or creating broad security exceptions, we validate the software, test it on a small group of machines, understand the allow list, and then deploy the policy to the required endpoint. This process has helped us maintain tighter control over our environment while still allowing business teams to get the applications they need in a structured and auditable way. Although there is some ongoing administrative effort, especially when new software versions are released or vendors frequently update their applications, the visibility and control it provides have made endpoint management much more predictable and secure.

The best features Airlock Digital Application Control offers that stand out the most for me are the application allow listing capabilities and centralized policy management, and the visibility into what is actually running across endpoints. The allow listing approach gives us much tighter control than relying only on signature-based security tools because only trusted applications are permitted to execute, which significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized software and malware. I also value having a central console where policies can be managed and applied consistently across different groups of devices, as it makes administration much easier than maintaining separate configurations on individual endpoints. Another feature I find valuable is the ability to review application activity before making policy changes, which helps us validate software and avoid disrupting users during deployments. From an operational perspective, the audit trail is useful because it provides clear records of policy changes and application approvals, making troubleshooting and compliance discussions much simpler. These features together provide a good balance between security and day-to-day manageability without making endpoint administration overly complicated, although none of them completely eliminate the need for ongoing policy maintenance, especially in environments where applications are updated frequently.

Airlock Digital Application Control is a solid product, but there are a few areas where it could be improved. The biggest challenge is the ongoing effort required to maintain allow listing policies in the environment where applications are updated frequently. While the initial deployment can be planned carefully, keeping policies current as vendors release new versions requires regular attention, and that can become time-consuming for IT teams managing a large number of endpoints. I would appreciate seeing more automation around approving trusted software updates and better integrations with common software deployment and vulnerability management tools to reduce manual effort. Reporting is another area that could be enhanced, particularly with more customizable dashboards and easier ways to generate compliance and operational reports for different audiences. From an administration perspective, some troubleshooting workflows could be more intuitive, especially when identifying why an application was blocked or determining the exact policy responsible for the decision. These limitations have not been significant enough to outweigh the benefits of the product, but addressing them would make day-to-day management more efficient, reduce administrative overhead, and improve the overall experience for security and endpoint management teams.

One additional area for improvement is the overall user and administration experience. While the platform is functional, I think some of the management workflows could be simplified so that common tasks such as reviewing blocked applications, approving legitimate software, or tracing the reason behind a policy decision require fewer steps. For organizations with lean IT teams, a more intuitive interface and clearer guidance during policy creation would help reduce the learning curve for new administrators. I would appreciate seeing broader integrations with the endpoint management, SIEM, and IT service management platforms so application events, approval requests, and policy updates can fit more naturally into existing operational workflows. Better APIs and pre-built integrations would reduce manual work and make automation easier for larger environments. More flexible reporting and customizable dashboards would help different teams, whether security operations or compliance, quickly access the information that is most relevant to them without having to manually compile reports. Addressing these areas would improve efficiency and make the product easier to operate as organizations scale their endpoint environments.

I have been using Airlock Digital Application Control for a little over two years in a production environment, primarily as a part of our endpoint security strategy for Windows desktops and servers.

Regarding stability, the product has been reliable in our environment. We have not experienced any significant outages or stability issues with the platform itself, and once the initial policies were properly tested and defined, policy deployment was consistent across our endpoints. The few issues we encountered were generally related to a newly released application version that had not yet been added to the allow list rather than a problem with the product's reliability. Those situations were resolved by validating the software and updating the appropriate policies. The platform has been stable enough that it has become part of our standard security operation, and any day-to-day challenges have been operational rather than related to system availability or performance.

From my experience, Airlock Digital Application Control has scaled effectively as our endpoint environment has grown. As we added new user devices and business applications, we were able to extend our existing policy framework without having to redesign the entire deployment management approach. It made it straightforward to onboard new groups, apply appropriate policies, and maintain consistent security standards across the environment. We also found that creating separate policies for different departments or user groups allowed us to accommodate changing business requirements without affecting the rest of the organization. As the environment grew larger, the biggest challenge was not the platform's ability to scale but the operational effort required to keep application allow lists current and organized. Regular policy reviews, a standard approval process, and a phased deployment became increasingly important to prevent unnecessary complexity. We have not encountered any major performance or reliability issues related to growth, and the platform has continued to support our expanding endpoint environment reliably. Successful scalability depends not only on the product itself but also on having well-defined governance and policy management processes in place.

My experience with Airlock Digital's customer support has been positive, and I would rate it eight out of ten. We have not had to contact support very often because the platform has been stable, but on the few occasions when we did, mainly during deployment and when we needed clarification on policy behavior or best practices for handling specific application scenarios, the team was responsive and technically knowledgeable. They took the time to understand our environment instead of providing generic answers, and their suggestions helped us resolve issues without resorting to broad policy exemptions. Response times were generally reasonable, although for more complex questions that required investigation, it sometimes took longer to receive a detailed solution, which is understandable for enterprise support cases. The documentation and knowledge resources were also useful for many day-to-day questions, reducing the need to open support cases. The reason I did not give support a score higher than eight is that I think there is still room for improvement in providing even faster turnaround for complex cases, more proactive technical guidance, and a broader library of implementation examples and best practices for different deployment scenarios. The support experience has been professional and has given us confidence that assistance is available when needed.

Before adopting Airlock Digital Application Control, we relied primarily on a combination of traditional endpoint protection, Microsoft AppLocker for a limited set of systems, and manual administrative controls rather than a dedicated, enterprise-wide application control platform. While that approach provided a basic level of protection, it became increasingly difficult to manage consistently as the environment grew. Policy management was fragmented, visibility into approved and unauthorized applications was limited, and maintaining consistent application control across different endpoint groups required a significant amount of manual effort. We evaluated several application control solutions before selecting Airlock Digital Application Control. We were looking for a product that offered more centralized policy management, better visibility into application activity, and a practical way to implement application allow listings without creating unnecessary operational complexity. The transition required careful planning and policy tuning, but once the deployment was completed, administration became more structured and predictable. Airlock Digital provided a better balance between security, usability, and day-to-day management than our previous approach, which was the primary reason for making the switch.

We deployed Airlock Digital Application Control in an on-premises environment because it aligned with our organization's existing security architecture and endpoint management practice. Most of our critical systems and management infrastructure were already hosted within our own data centers, so keeping the application control management platform on-premises simplified integrations with our existing authentication services, endpoint management tools, and internal security processes. The deployment also gave us greater control over policy management, administrative access, and change management, which was important for us from both a security and a compliance perspective. Once the initial setup and policy configurations were complete, day-to-day administration was straightforward, with the policies being managed centrally and distributed to endpoints as a part of our standard operation process. Although an on-premises deployment requires us to maintain the underlying infrastructure, it has provided the level of control, stability, and predictability we were looking for, and it has integrated well with the rest of our enterprise environment.

We have seen positive returns on investment, although it has been more apparent in the reduced operational effort and improved security than in direct headcount savings. Before implementing Airlock Digital Application Control, our IT team spent a noticeable amount of time investigating incidents caused by unauthorized software and responding to requests related to unapproved applications. After introducing application allow listing and establishing a structured approval process, those incidents became much less frequent. We estimated that support tickets related to unauthorized software decreased by around thirty-five to forty percent, and the time spent investigating suspicious or unknown executables was reduced from several hours to less than thirty minutes because administrators could quickly verify application status through centralized policies and audit records. Routine software approval requests also became more predictable, with most standard requests being completed within one business day instead of taking several days. While we did not reduce the size of the IT team, the time saved allowed administrators to focus on higher-value activities such as security improvements, endpoint life cycle management, and proactive projects instead of repetitive troubleshooting. From a business perspective, avoiding even a single significant malware or ransomware incident would justify much of the investment. The improvements in operational efficiency, security, and risk reduction have made the solution worthwhile for us.

The pricing and licensing model for Airlock Digital Application Control was relatively straightforward and easy to understand compared to some other enterprise security products we evaluated. We licensed the solution based on the size of our endpoint environment, which made it easier to estimate costs during budgeting and future planning. The initial setup cost was reasonable because the deployment did not require significant additional infrastructure beyond what we already had in place. Although we did invest time in planning, policy creation, testing, and administrator training to ensure a smooth rollout, the larger investment was in the implementation effort rather than the software itself, particularly during the early stages when we were building and refining application allow listing policies. Once the environment was stabilized, ongoing licensing and operational costs were predictable and fit within our security budget. The overall value was justified by the increased control over application execution, the reduction in security risks, and the operational improvements we gained. The only area where I think there is room for improvement is providing even greater flexibility in licensing options for organizations with mixed environments or rapidly changing endpoint counts, but overall, we found the commercial model fair and transparent.

Before selecting Airlock Digital Application Control, we evaluated a few different approaches, including Microsoft AppLocker, Microsoft Defender Application Control, formerly Windows Defender Application Control, and a couple of other endpoint security solutions that included application control capabilities as a part of a broader endpoint protection platform. Our evaluation focused on how easy each solution was to deploy and manage, the level of policy granularity, reporting, day-to-day administration, and the impact on end users. Airlock Digital stood out because it offered a good balance between strong application allow listing capabilities and operational simplicity, making it a better fit for our team's requirements.

My advice to others looking into using Airlock Digital Application Control would be to spend as much time planning your application control strategy as you do evaluating the product. The technology is only one part of a successful implementation. Having a clear understanding of your software inventory, business-critical software, and an approval process will make the rollout much smoother. I would recommend starting with a pilot group that represents different business functions so you can identify legitimate applications that need to be allowed before expanding the deployment across the organization. It is also important to involve the endpoint management, security, and application owners early in the process so everyone understands how software requests and policy changes will be handled. Once the solution is in production, establish a regular process for reviewing policies, validating new application versions, and removing old rules to keep the environment manageable over time. Application control should not be expected to work as a standalone security measure. It delivers the best results when it is integrated into a comprehensive endpoint security strategy alongside endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, patching, and user awareness. Approaching implementation with good planning, realistic expectations, and a strong operational process will allow application control to provide effective protection without unnecessary disruption for end users or administrators. I would rate this product an eight out of ten overall.

Application whitelisting has become increasingly important, and ensuring that we’re not running code unknown to our organization is crucial. The organizations I work for have been using it to effectively whitelist applications known to be in use, and then highlight any applications that aren’t within the remit of the service delivery organizations or the infrastructure organizations, ensuring that we’re only executing known code.

One of the use cases for Airlock Digital Application Control that we identified were timer applications; we found applications being used potentially to exfiltrate information. We found people using WhatsApp as well as Signal, which weren’t under the control of the data loss prevention capability within the organization I was working with, so we were able to identify applications that might be missed by DLP.

We have certain use cases where users require using scripting languages and programming languages such as Python to run simulations and modeling; this is not something we want every user to be able to do, but it’s allowed us to select which users are allowed to run certain applications and under what scripting languages and programming languages and under what circumstances they’re allowed to run them. This means that it’s not a blanket on or off; it’s about under what context the application can actually run, allowing users to use Python or PowerShell under constrained use cases as opposed to unrestricted access.

One of the other capabilities I haven’t mentioned is the ability to have an on-premises as well as a cloud instance; in the industries I work in, having the ability to run disconnected from the internet or running everything on-premises for data sovereignty purposes is really important. Airlock Digital Application Control has given us that flexibility to have both deployments depending on the context in which we’re running the application or needing this capability.

Anybody going on an application control journey is going to realize that they need a maturity uplift; this has allowed us to present information back to the service delivery organizations and the infrastructure organizations, and the application organizations within the companies I’m working with, and help them develop a maturity plan around uplifting their processes and their policies and their workflows. It’s also helping them have justification around limiting Shadow IT, and being able to say no—this application is not appropriate or this application is appropriate. It helps them on that maturity journey.

Airlock Digital Application Control is probably the easiest application control that I’ve come across; the product has a GUI-first, web interface-first approach to application control, and the way that it’s able to present exceptions or identify what those untrusted executions are is the best that I’ve seen in the field. It’s easy, it’s very quick, and I think that it reduces that barrier to entry for application control.

One of the best features that Airlock Digital Application Control offers is the ability to create complex rules around what applications are allowed to execute under what circumstances and where. It helps us answer the who, what, where, when, and why, to a lesser extent, applications are being used; it’s absolutely the ability to define complex rule sets.

I appreciate the automated baselines that are in Airlock Digital Application Control; being able to start off with a starting point of what, for example, Windows 10 or Windows 11 or one of the server platforms would normally run means we’re not developing our policies from scratch. I also appreciate the ability for bulk adding and identifying publishers of applications and being able to blanket approve publishers, for example, or I can put complex rules around publishers so that the publisher can only execute under certain circumstances. The flexibility and the way that the product has been designed has been really well thought out.

I love how granular Airlock Digital Application Control is; I think the metadata rules, which allow us to create complex rule sets, are excellent compared to what I’ve seen in other products doing application control. Airlock Digital Application Control is just so far ahead of others.

I think there are features that are coming down the pipeline that we don’t have yet; one of which is the ability to have a managed installer process. There is that capability currently, but it’s reliant on WDAC or Windows Application Control, as opposed to being natively within Airlock Digital Application Control. This is something that is coming, but we haven’t actually seen it deployed yet. At the moment, we’re still having to onboard applications individually, and that would be the biggest pain point that we have right now.

I think more guides on how to onboard and bring Airlock Digital Application Control into production would be helpful; these aren’t technical needs, more around documentation and potentially some videos on how to onboard or how to bring it into your organization more efficiently.

I have been using Airlock Digital Application Control now for about nine months.

Airlock Digital Application Control has been extremely stable for me so far; I haven’t had any problems with the agents when they’re deployed and the policies are stable. It has had some problems with the on-premises deployment, in terms of stability of the server-side components, and there have been some minor problems with upgrades of agents, but nothing insurmountable.

At this stage, the only scaling issues we’ve had with Airlock Digital Application Control have been around the reporting database; everything else has been fine.

We were using AppLocker in some use cases, which was really managed by a group policy; we found that it was too coarse, and we weren’t able to get granular policy control with it. That’s why we moved towards Airlock Digital Application Control, and with Airlock Digital Application Control, we are actually installing that on the entire workstation and server estates, whereas previously it was only on very specific application servers.

At nine months in with Airlock Digital Application Control, I think we’re still not seeing a return on investment, and that’s partially because the need for application control was more important or timely than the processes were able to keep up with. At this stage, we’re still heavily invested in resources bringing it up and aligning our processes with it, so I think we will have a return on investment, but I don’t think it’s going to be in year zero. I think it’s going to be probably towards the back end of year one.

I think the user experience is quite good for a modern product; the reporting is getting better with every release, and at this stage, I don’t have any specific points on the reporting that I would want to be better. Perhaps some UI performance improvements, but generally, I think that for what Airlock Digital Application Control does, it does extremely well and fits within that scope really well.

I advise others looking into using Airlock Digital Application Control to understand what your software asset register looks like and what is allowed to run in your organization; once you understand what is allowed to run, you can then develop policies and processes to implement Airlock Digital Application Control efficiently. If you don’t have those governance structures in place, you’re really going to struggle to move Airlock Digital Application Control from audit mode into enforcement mode.

I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.

We use Airlock Digital Application Control for endpoint management, for protection and management of shadow IT, not in a punitive sense, but if we find people trying to use unapproved software, we try and point them to approved software to minimize our risk profile while maximizing the value. We call all of our employees owners, so when I say owners, that is what I am talking about. For our owners, for example, at one point, BioCryst had 74 different zip tools in their total environment, and by getting it down to one, we reduced license costs, we reduced the risk profile from having lots of different unpatched software. We got all of them up to date, so we were no longer running out-of-date software, and the experience for our owners was better, and the protection for the enterprise was better.

With Airlock Digital Application Control, we have to make sure the versions on the endpoints are up to date, but that is managed as part of the tool. We do tracking and reporting to make sure that all of the systems are up to date, and there are occasional requirements where something broke on an endpoint, and we have to manually reinstall it. But we had 800 endpoints all told, and I think we had to reinstall it less than 20 times manually, so it was not exactly common. But because we could feed the reporting into Splunk, it was easy to catch because Airlock Digital Application Control is not stellar necessarily about giving you a good report that says this machine has not checked in in a timely manner because their window is too small, and it is not really adjustable. Some of our salespeople might not turn their laptop on but once a month. Once it had not checked in for 72 hours, it just stopped doing anything. But we could see in the Splunk instance when their version got out of date, and the reporting, even though we got the data from Airlock Digital Application Control, was easier to do in Splunk. Then we would say, this one is five versions out of current, and our current is two versions off of latest. Then we would see if Airlock Digital Application Control could update it internally, and if not, we told the help desk to go manually reinstall Airlock Digital Application Control. That got it back up to date, but since it is a SaaS product, there was not server maintenance or anything we had to do.

What I like the most about Airlock Digital Application Control is that when I first joined BioCryst, they had an existing relationship to deploy Carbon Black, and Carbon Black was such a screaming nightmare because they got sold and resold and acquired six times in 14 months. So they did not know whether to scratch their ass or wind their watch, so it was kind of crazy, and their service was abysmal. The tool was still the bleeding edge of 1997, had not been updated since; it just kept getting sold. Airlock Digital Application Control is taking that Carbon Black concept, making it cloud-based, making it much more dynamic and scalable, and more reactive in terms of the reporting. Does it still have some growing pains? It does, but even on its worst day, it was head and shoulders above Carbon Black, even though at the most granular level, they did essentially the same thing, but things that we would try to do in Carbon Black would just crash in Carbon Black, and you could do in seconds or minutes in Airlock Digital Application Control.

It handled the scale with very rare exceptions; every once in a while, you would catch them when they were doing an update or something, and it would hang, but I could count that on the fingers of one hand in two years, where I could not tell you how many times a day Carbon Black was crashing because it was well into the dozens. It actually performed better. It had better granularity in reporting because we used Splunk as our SIEM for data aggregation, and it was able to set up direct data feeds, and as the environment changed, those data feeds updated. So it worked very well in a centralized reporting and tools environment, allowing us to better leverage that risk protection. We did not necessarily watch Airlock Digital Application Control every second, but we had a SOC that could run queries against that data and compare it to our CrowdStrike data and compare it to our Zscaler data and some of our other firewall data and see what was going on and where we may have opportunities for excellence.

What I dislike about Airlock Digital Application Control is that the whole endpoint management concept as implemented there is silly, and they need to have a better flow so you can appropriately do that type of work at the access control layer, not at the machine layer. If you simply take local admin away from everyone in the company, it is a way of taking local admin away without telling people you are doing that, and I think that is kind of silly. But the biggest challenge is the tool does not let you migrate information between groups, and its export function is not stellar, though it is markedly better than it was when we first started with it. If I built a group and we grew and we decided we need to change how that was organized, I had to take a buttload of screenshots to capture all of the information because there was not a way to migrate them into a new structure. That is one of the things they are working on, and it was due to be released soon, and I got laid off about eight weeks ago now, so maybe they have released it now. But that was a pain because there was no way to export it, even as a CSV, and that was annoying because it did not screenshot easily.

I have been a customer for about two years.

I have paid for enhanced support, so we have a weekly call with a technical success manager, and I have never had to call support; I called him.

The support from Airlock Digital Application Control was excellent. I am drawing a blank on his name because we had two of them, but they were top-notch. It took a little while to get the second guy up to speed, but that is normal. We had been working with the first guy for about 10 months at that point, and he got promoted; good for him. We got the new guy up to speed, and once he understood what was going on with our environment and everything, it was great. Having that regular cadence, when we had extra questions, he always responded within a timely manner. From my perspective, it was not the kind of tool that you regularly had to have an instant response, but it was rare not to have a response by the next business day, and typically we got something the same day unless I sent it at about 6:00 at night.

If I were to put their support on a scale from 1 to 10, I would give them an 8. It is not that there was any fault of the support person we had, our technical contact; it is just sometimes things that we wanted as baselines had to go into the development pipeline. He was a good advocate for us getting those into the development pipeline and giving us links so that we could go into the tool that development used to track it, so we could go in and all vote for it to bump it up in the priority.

The initial deployment of Airlock Digital Application Control was just an Intune push, and it was pretty easy. We already had a centralized management tool.

I thought the pricing for Airlock Digital Application Control was good. I was the one that negotiated the contract and was actually successful in suing Carbon Black and getting all of our money back, and then working with Airlock Digital Application Control to get a multi-year contract within that budget. They are much more cost-effective than Carbon Black, both just in terms of the flat pricing and then what you get for the pricing. We did pay extra for some of the customer service support, but it was an excellent investment to get the best return out of the environment, fast.

Airlock Digital Application Control has helped me to prevent malware within our systems. The policy change history feature did not exist when I started, but they had auditing; that is part of the policy change history. We did look and see, if something happened, who did it, so we did use the auditing.

I have indeed had experience with the bidirectional REST API; that is how Airlock Digital Application Control updated itself and updated the dashboard. We played with that a lot, especially when we were first setting it up, but once we had the key set up, it worked pretty well.

The single SKU licensing model has not affected our organization's budgeting and resource allocation for the application control. What we had was not technically one SKU because we had one SKU for the service and then we had one SKU for the support. But it is not a tool that is so granular or so fractional that you need a bunch of other SKUs. It is kind of binary; you either buy it or you do not. You either buy support or you do not. It is not like Oracle or SAP where there are 12 billion subcomponents that you have to buy individually and track, so you do not need a billion SKUs or a Microsoft SKU-of-the-week model.

If I am looking for that type of tool in another environment, I am going to reach out to them. Overall, I give Airlock Digital Application Control a solid 8.

My use case for Airlock Digital Application Control is application control.

The best features of Airlock Digital Application Control include the ability to block using publishers, path rules, and many features that fit our purpose. The main thing would be blocking all and allowing only specific applications, which is the approach we are following.

Airlock Digital Application Control helps improve my auditability and governance over policies because it can be logged and we can see who made changes and for what purpose. We have our own internal standards defined so that whenever people make changes, they should have obtained all the approvals and the comments are updated with the request details and all those things.

I have noticed that Airlock Digital Application Control has improved the way my organization functions as it is more of a security tool. With technology transitioning so fast with artificial intelligence, we wanted to be careful about what is getting executed in each and every endpoint device. In that aspect, we were looking at a solution where only what we allowlist is getting executed.

In Airlock Digital Application Control, there are areas for improvement which, more specifically being a security tool, relate to the performance issues that end-user devices are experiencing because of the tool. It is getting improved on a version-to-version upgrade basis, but I would say that is one major area to improve. Otherwise, whatever is defined on the product works as expected.

The performance aspect of Airlock Digital Application Control could be improved.

I have been using Airlock Digital Application Control for almost a year.

So far, I have not had any issues with the stability of Airlock Digital Application Control, so I would rate it about eight or nine.

The scalability of Airlock Digital Application Control depends on the problem statement or the use case that we come up with. There were some challenges initially, but I think with the current version, it is quite scalable now.

I would rate the scalability of Airlock Digital Application Control as seven because there are still some features upcoming which will improve the scalability much more.

I would rate the technical support of Airlock Digital Application Control as nine.

I find that the deployment of Airlock Digital Application Control was very straightforward.

The deployment of Airlock Digital Application Control was staged, but otherwise, we did not have any issues during the deployment. Everything went smooth. We have devices across the regions, so we usually stage it by regions such as APAC and EMEA.

Time-wise, I would say that Airlock Digital Application Control saves a lot of time. Monitoring a fleet of devices will take a team's effort, but we three or four people are working on this, and it is quite easy. Integrating to other monitoring tools saves a lot of time.

I would say Airlock Digital Application Control saves around thirty percent of our time.

I compare Airlock Digital Application Control with other vendors such as ThreatLocker, Carbon Black, and BeyondTrust based on the proof of concept we did with other competitive tools. What made Airlock Digital Application Control different is the features and options we had to approach a single problem. We have the capability of blocking or allowing publishers or even more granularly, up to a device or a device group, which gives us that agility.

Approximately three thousand to four thousand devices use Airlock Digital Application Control.

The users of Airlock Digital Application Control are global, not just based in India.

I would recommend Airlock Digital Application Control to people who are looking to manage endpoint computers to enhance their security. I gave this review a rating of seven out of ten.

I primarily use Airlock Digital Application Control for application control.

The best features of Airlock Digital Application Control are that it is easy to use, deploy, and manage.

Airlock Digital Application Control absolutely helps prevent malware within our system, and that is tested as well. We use other systems to test it.

The policy change history feature helps us improve our auditability and governance over policies by allowing us to report to our auditors if they have any questions about how we use it and what we do with it. It also helps us keep track of what is going on in the environment on both desktop and server levels and cloud levels. It also gives us assurance that it is working as we expect.

Regarding areas that might have room for improvement, I honestly do not have anything. I have not really thought it through, but I cannot think of anything that really needs to be improved at this stage, not from my perspective. I would have to talk to my cybersecurity coordinator to confirm, but he has never complained to me about anything, and it has always worked very well. So at this stage, do not change too much. It is a good product that needs to keep track of technology, but you have to keep that in check.

As for the clarity and speed of the new user interface compared to the previous one, honestly, to me it is no different. I am not really finding it to be any different. It is good, but it is no different from what it was previously as far as efficiency is concerned. It seems fine.

I have been using Airlock Digital Application Control for approximately five years.

The stability of Airlock Digital Application Control has been excellent, and I rate it a 10. There has been no downtime, bugs, or glitches.

As for scalability, I rate it a nine.

Regarding the technical support from Airlock Digital Application Control, I do not know because I have never had to use them, but I am going to say nine because I just do not know. As far as I understand, we have never had any issues, and I think the issues we have had have been resolved quickly.

When comparing Airlock Digital Application Control with other solutions or vendors, I do not think there is any other peer on the market that I could find. At the time we went to Airlock Digital Application Control, the only solution available was the Microsoft version, and it is just not even comparable. The Microsoft application whitelisting product is rubbish. Therefore, Airlock Digital Application Control was a no-brainer for us.

The policy change history feature helps us improve our auditability and governance over policies by allowing us to report to our auditors if they have any questions about how we use it and what we do with it. It also helps us keep track of what is going on in the environment on both desktop and server levels and cloud levels. It also gives us assurance that it is working as we expect.

When it comes to the deployment of Airlock Digital Application Control, it is easy, and it took us a couple of months. I only have a single cybersecurity coordinator, and we were just working with it. The reason it took a couple of months is that we wanted to let it run in audit mode first, check that we got it right, and then we deployed it slowly over time to ensure we got it right. If you get it wrong, Airlock Digital Application Control being an application whitelisting product can really cause a lot of problems. So you have to get it right the first time, but we found it very easy to deploy in that regard. It makes it very easy to understand what you have got right and what you have got wrong, and then you can deploy easily. It took us a while, but I would not say it was excessive.

We are not using the bidirectional REST API.

Regarding the return on investment from Airlock Digital Application Control, I think certainly there has been ROI, but it is a bit of an intangible question only because of the nature of the product. The return on investment is that in five years, we have never had a breach or a malware event that has been a result of Airlock Digital Application Control, or at all, honestly. I think Airlock Digital Application Control is part of that solution, which means that we have had a significant return on investment. It is just unrealized because we have never had an infiltration because of it.

As for my thoughts on the pricing of Airlock Digital Application Control, I think for the quality of the product, it is fair. It is certainly a fair price for what it is; it is not excessive. I would think it is quite a reasonable price for the quality of the product. It is a good quality product that always works, and I do not think it is overpriced in any way.

Having used Airlock Digital Application Control for five years, I honestly do not directly use it every day, but it does seem that my team does not complain about it. They are very happy with it, and there has not really been much mentioned to me about the features and what has been enhanced. We have not had enhancements that have made a significant difference to us day-to-day. At this stage, it has been a very solid platform that has not changed too much over the years, honestly, and it has been very reliable. I think that is part of the reason we appreciate it; it does not change in excessive amounts. The changes are incremental and easy to track, so we are not too concerned about when it changes.

My impressions of the granular policy control offered by Airlock Digital Application Control are that it is very flexible and can be used in many different environments. That is one of the things we have loved about it; we can deploy it in different environments. We categorize our servers and set up policies based on different categories of servers, and that has worked out quite well.

My advice to others looking to implement Airlock Digital Application Control would be to read the documentation, work with the support team, and deploy it. I think it is a great product.

I rate Airlock Digital Application Control a nine overall, as it is a great product.

To make the solution a 10, we could consider more AI, a better interface, or pricing. It is hard to give a 10 out of 10 because I think there is always room for improvement. The interface is good, but it could be improved a little more, becoming a bit more intuitive. Overall, it is fine, but maybe to go from a nine to 10 out of 10 could be some slight tweaks on the user interface.

Airlock Digital Application Control is used for application control as part of meeting the New South Wales Essential Eight program. It assists in preventing malware, and in the time we have been using it, we have only had one detection where it picked up a malicious file, which demonstrates strong performance.

The connectivity with InTune is exciting because it automatically pre-approves applications from the InTune library, which means I do not have to update the system as frequently. The console is also excellent and very clear to understand.

Airlock Digital Application Control helps with our cybersecurity posture and maturity by allowing us to lock down a user environment with only approved applications. It stops other applications that are not approved from running, without requiring traditional administrator access to install or run them.

Airlock Digital Application Control has room for improvement in detecting and setting a standard environment when updates for programs are released. A better way to detect when we have approved programs but their updated versions also need approval would be helpful. As a very small cyber team, we continually look for efficiencies we can gain.

I have been working with Airlock Digital Application Control for three to four years.

I would rate Airlock Digital Application Control a 10 for stability. We have had no stability issues with it. Any stability issues we have experienced are the result of us blocking the wrong application, which is not the product's fault because it works as advertised.

I would say the scalability of Airlock Digital Application Control is a 10. Scaling from 150 to 180 to 220 users has not presented any issues.

I would rate the technical support from Airlock Digital Application Control a 10. There has not been anything we have asked that they have not been able to solve for us. The recent upgrade process was very easy.

Airlock Digital Application Control is pretty easy to deploy and work with. We do not perform manual deployment of it. It is baked into our mandatory InTune Standard Operating Environment, so deployment is just updating the client to newer versions occasionally.

I see about a 50 to 60 percent return on investment with Airlock Digital Application Control, not just financially but in terms of saving resources and time, especially when comparing it to other application whitelisting solutions that are much more involved.

The pricing of Airlock Digital Application Control is adequately set. We have budgeted for it, and it is one of our more significant line items, but we have the budget for it.

The single SKU licensing model of Airlock Digital Application Control has made budgeting and resource allocation easier because there are not as many components. We can have it as a single line item for however many licenses we have.

I compare Airlock Digital Application Control very highly to other vendors like ThreatLocker, Microsoft, Ivanti, and Carbon Black. We have recently looked at ThreatLocker and Microsoft in comparison to Airlock Digital Application Control. I have not looked at Carbon Black, and we are not looking at other options at the moment.

I hope to use the bidirectional REST API in Airlock Digital Application Control very soon to connect with a SOC SIEM solution to help with our reporting.

Regarding the integration capabilities of Airlock Digital Application Control, from the version we were running to the current version and the features we are looking at using, the integration options are fantastic and seem quite easy to implement where we need them.

Assessing the clarity and speed of the new interface of Airlock Digital Application Control compared to the previous version is challenging because I have mostly interacted with the previous interface and we have only recently upgraded. We might be among the last to upgrade, and I have not used the new interface extensively.

I do not use the policy change history in Airlock Digital Application Control because I believe that is a new feature we have not yet unlocked. We have just completed that upgrade, and we were quite behind on our updates.

I recommend Airlock Digital Application Control to other users because of the quality and the features we have discussed. It is a good product. The reason for my rating of Airlock Digital Application Control is really the updating of the database of applications we want to whitelist. It is more of a personal preference because as a small team, I do not have much time for this task. It is a larger task that we would like to make more efficient somehow without just approving everything. My overall rating for Airlock Digital Application Control is 8.

I use Airlock Digital Application Control for application control, primarily handling servers. The solution manages approximately 1,000 servers with centralized control.

Airlock Digital Application Control offers several best features. The application server itself is very light and operates at fast speeds. When whitelisting something, it applies immediately over the network. The solution handles multiple network subnets including layer four and layer 3.5, and all operate very fast.

Recently, improvements have been made to the whitelisting functionality in Airlock Digital Application Control. When any client finds files blocked, a pop-up appears, and they can request approval directly from there. The console displays incoming requests and shows whether they are whitelisted, approved, not approved, or denied.

If Airlock Digital Application Control implemented AI, it would be very beneficial. The solution is very easy to handle from our end, but AI implementation would make it even better.

If the solution can generate an email and send requests to the call center to create a work order or change request in the upcoming updates.

I have used Airlock Digital Application Control for the last year primarily for application Whitelisting

The stability of Airlock Digital Application Control receives a rating of 10.

Scalability with Airlock Digital Application Control also receives a rating of 10.

The technical support of Airlock Digital Application Control receives a rating of 10 because only a few cases were opened and they were handled perfectly. Support has not been required often, and it can be handled very well. The technical team was present during implementation and provided all necessary support and guidance.

Previously, another application was used for more than 10 years. Recently, that product was not undergoing any development, so this year the switch was made to Airlock Digital Application Control. A proof of concept was completed more than a year ago, and the solution was found to be very light, very fast, and much better than the previous one.

Airlock Digital Application Control was compared with other vendors including Trend Micro, Ivanti, CrowdStrike, and Sophos. Ivanti was used for the last 10 years and was based on Windows, making it heavy and not lightweight. Airlock Digital Application Control is Linux-based and very lightweight.

Installation of Airlock Digital Application Control takes less than one day. The application is deployed, tested on a few endpoints, and then deployed group by group to avoid creating problems across all machines simultaneously. This group-by-group approach was perfect with no complaints generated.

Airlock Digital Application Control has been deployed on-premises, and it was downloaded from the support portal. Installation is very easy.

Four admins have control of Airlock Digital Application Control. Approximately one thousand servers are used by many people in application administration roles across different divisions. Four application admins handle the solution, and one admin deployed it.

The infrastructure team handles the setup, while the licensing part is handled by another department.

Airlock Digital Application Control's policy change history feature is used with multiple policy groups. The latest version allows policy application on a host-based level, where even a single endpoint can have policy applied.

Airlock Digital Policy Creation Wizard is very helpful for determining which files the admins are using. The company policy prevents unauthorized installations because the information security team is very cautious about implementing new installations and EXE executions. These installations can be controlled through the portal.

Granular policy control of Airlock Digital Application Control provides strong satisfaction.

Airlock Digital Application Control can be highly recommended, and the overall rating is 10.