Application Control remains one of the most effective security strategies available to the enterprise: define what is trusted and prevent unauthorized execution. The challenge has always been making Application Control faster to deploy, easier to maintain, and simpler to scale.
Version 7.0 helps security and IT teams answer the operational questions that matter: what is running, what should be trusted, what requires elevated access, and why an enforcement decision occurred.
With v7.0, Airlock Digital introduces:
Airlock Digital continues to enforce trust at the file level. That is what makes Application Control effective against malware, ransomware, and unauthorized execution.
But files are not always how teams think about software. Applications include executables, libraries, publishers, dependencies, and related processes. The introduction of Application Context makes that activity easier to understand.
Application Context turns observed execution activity into recognizable application views, helping administrators understand what is running, where it has been seen, and how related files and runtime relationships connect to trust and policy decisions.
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This context helps teams answer practical questions about what applications are running and where as well as what files and publishers are associated with them. These insights help users assess if the action is expected software, unmanaged software, internally developed software, or something that needs investigation.
For current customers, Application Context adds an execution-aware intelligence layer above Airlock Digital's file-level enforcement foundation. Teams can better understand application activity while Airlock Digital continues to evaluate and enforce trust through file, publisher, path, and metadata-based policy controls.
One of the biggest challenges with allowlisting is the work required to move from audit to enforcement. Teams need to review execution activity, understand what should be trusted, and build policies that reflect the software actually used in their environment.
This release introduces Trust Builder to reduce repetitive policy work while keeping administrators in control of trust decisions.
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Trust Builder helps teams reduce manual policy-building effort and shorten the path from audit to enforcement. It does not replace administrator judgment. It is closer to cruise control than self-driving: it accelerates repetitive policy creation and maintenance while keeping trust decisions visible and under customer control.
Version 7.0 introduces Elevation Control to help organizations reduce administrative exposure without breaking approved user workflows.
Many organizations grant local administrator rights because users need to run one or two specific tools. The problem is that the user receives broad administrative access, often far beyond what is required.
Elevation Control changes that model by applying administrative-equivalent privileges to approved applications and processes, not broadly elevating users or sessions.
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This helps organizations limit administrative exposure to the smallest practical scope. Instead of giving a user broad admin rights because one application requires them, the approved application receives the privileges it needs when policy conditions are met.
Elevation Control is not a replacement for a full Privileged Access Management platform. It does not provide credential vaulting, privileged account discovery, session brokering, credential rotation, or session recording. Instead, it addresses common application-level elevation needs within the application control framework customers already use.
The latest version improves troubleshooting and policy validation by connecting execution activity more directly to policy outcomes.
With Contextual Repository, Airlock Digital brings execution context into the repository experience. Administrators can see more detail about how a file ran, including the related execution activity used to evaluate outcomes. Enhanced Policy Tester capabilities use that context to evaluate selected file executions against policy groups and show whether the result would be allowed, blocked, or audited.
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For existing customers, this is a practical improvement to day-to-day administration. When something unexpected happens, teams can move from event to explanation faster, with less manual investigation.
Version 7.0 improves Policy-Scoped Access Control for customers managing larger or more complex environments.
In previous versions, teams could restrict visibility to policy groups, but associated rule types could still be visible more broadly. That model has been improved by enforcing access across the policy and its related rule types.
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This gives enterprise customers stronger governance and cleaner delegated administration without needing separate consoles.
All aspects of this release help organizations make Application Control more practical to deploy, manage, and scale.
Application Context gives teams a clearer view of what software is actually running. Trust Builder helps accelerate the move from audit to enforcement through guided trust recommendations. Elevation Control reduces administrative exposure by elevating approved applications and processes instead of users. Contextual Repository and enhanced Policy Tester capabilities make enforcement decisions easier to understand. Policy-Scoped Access Control gives larger organizations cleaner separation of management responsibilities.
The security model remains consistent: Airlock Digital continues to evaluate and enforce trust at the file level. What Version 7.0 adds is a stronger execution-aware operational layer above that foundation, helping teams see, decide, and act with less manual effort.
Together, these improvements help organizations improve security outcomes, reduce operational overhead, and scale application control more confidently.
To learn more about how Airlock Digital helps protect endpoints from ransomware, malware, and unauthorized execution, contact us here. Current customers can visit the Customer Portal for upgrade info and additional resources.