Mcafee Application Control, A Review Of Application Whitelisting

7th November 2009

McAfee Application Control version 5.0, which is due on Dec. 15, is a result of the acquisition of Solidcore as well as the integration of the Solidcore S3 Control of McAfee with its ePolicy Orchestrator. The McAfee Application Control has its rival SignaCert for its broadest client support in all of the products in the review of the InfoWorld. It boasts the write protection and also the ownership protection of the whitelisted files, good alerting and reporting, with no significant cons.

The McAfee Application Control can also enforce the whitelisting policies on Windows NT 4 till the Windows Server 2008 and the Windows 7 support is also forthcoming, the Suse Linux 9 and 10, the Red Hat Linux 3 up to 5 and also CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, the and Solaris 8 till 10. Solidcore S3 Control, its precursor, is also in use on many of the client nodes and is also deployed on greater than 250,000 ATMs.

The management console of McAfee Application Control is one dashboard component of the McAfee ePO 4.5 i.e. the screen image. The administrators connect through a secure session of the browser, and there they can easily manage their Application Control and any other of the security solutions of McAfee that they have deployed.