Airlock Digital Blog / Author
David Cottingham
A renowned application control expert and cyber security practitioner, David co-founded Airlock Digital in 2013 and established the product-first, customer-focused culture that drives our growth today. Leveraging his extensive cybersecurity and application control experience within the Australian Government, David collaborated with fellow co-founder Daniel Schell to build a solution that would solve modern endpoint security challenges. Today, that solution has transformed application control, allowlisting, and OS hardening into a critical cybersecurity strategy for the mid-market and enterprise around the world. An in-demand thought leader and presenter at world-leading cybersecurity events including CrowdStrike Fal.Con, David has also authored SANS SEC480: Implementing & Auditing the ASD Top 4 Mitigation Strategies for the SANS Institute, a global cybersecurity training organization.
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Airlock Digital v6.1.3: Clearer Visibility, Flexible Exception Workflows, Better Performance
Airlock Digital v6.1.3 helps security teams work more effectively with workflow-integrated exception management for ServiceNow, Slack and Microsoft Teams
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Airlock Digital v6.1.1: Seamless Exception Management and Allowlisting Workflows
Airlock Digital v6.1.1 features a new exception management workflow, Wildcard Metarule Support for path and hostname criteria and UI refinements.
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Airlock Digital v6.1: Policy Change History, Cloud Security Group Support and New UI
Airlock Digital v6 introduces a new policy change history feature, a new user interface, integration with Microsoft Entra cloud, and more.
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SAML Support, Native Slack Integration Highlight Airlock Digital v6.0.2
Announcing v6.0.2 of Airlock Digital which includes native Slack integration, SAML support, interoperability path rules and Ubuntu server support.
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Improved Effectiveness, Broader Platform Support in Airlock Digital v6.0
Announcing v6.0 of the Airlock Digital solution, a release packed with features that make allowlisting at scale a reality.
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How to Reduce Your Attack Surface by Removing Unused OS Features
Mitigate risks such as LOLBin exploits by using allowlisting to control, monitor, and block unnecessary binaries and features.
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What is an OTP in Airlock’s Allowlisting Solution?
A One-Time Password (OTP) generates a code specific to a particular endpoint that can be used once for a predetermined time period, disappearing after use.
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Airlock Customer Summit Marks Start of New Era of Customer Engagement
The inaugural Airlock Customer Summit in Sydney focused on customer feedback which is critical to the application control and allowlisting feature roadmap
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Trust Files in Complex Cases with Airlock Allowlisting 5.3
The latest version of Airlock Allowlisting, v5.3, is now GA offering improved flexibility and ease of use to allow trusted applications and block the rest.
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Risky Business Podcast: When Standards Drive Innovation
Tom Uren of Risky Business News talks to Daniel Schell, CTO and David Cottingham CEO of Airlock Digital about the security standard that drove innovation.
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Risky Business - LockBit is Down but Not Out. Yet.
Risky Biz podcast: Airlock Digital’s Daniel Schell talks about adventures with WDAC, Dave Cottingham predicts Windows 12 will go all in on signed code.
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AnyDesk Incident - Airlock Digital Customer Guidance
Guidance on the AnyDesk security incident; the revocation of code signing certificates suggests existing certificates should not be trusted.
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