David Cottingham

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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CERT NZ Continues to Recognize Application Allowlisting
For New Zealand organizations, Computer Emergency Response Team of New Zealand (CERT NZ) recognizes application allowlisting in Critical Controls framework
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Airlock Digital – Allowlisting Auditor v4
The auditor is a free utility developed designed to comprehensively test application allowlists for weaknesses and misconfigurations, regardless of vendor.
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Risky Business Podcast:  Is the Kernel a Security Boundary?
Airlock Digital sponsored the latest episode of Risky Business podcast with Patrick Gray where they discussed the limitations of kernel driver blocklists.
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Airlock Digital releases free Application Whitelisting Audit Tool
Utilise the free AppLocker Auditor tool for seamless review of policies against Australian Information Security Manual (ISM) compliance.
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David Cottingham Presenting at ACSC 2017
Join David Cottingham, Airlock co-founder, as he presents at the ACSC Conference on detecting malicious activity in enterprise environments.
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Risky Biz Soap Box Podcast: Why Allowlisting is Ready for Prime Time
Insights on effective allowlisting, lessons from the third-party industry, Microsoft vs. specialist tools, and the effort for success.
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Proactively Detect and Prevent Petya Ransomware [Video]
Petya is a ransomware outbreak that impacted organizations. This video shows how application whitelisting provides proactive protection against Petya.
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Airlock Digital Add-on for Splunk Released
Easily integrate Splunk with Airlock using this Add-on. It offers pre-built parsing and dashboards for streamlined application whitelisting data viewing.
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Microsoft's Revocation of Verisign's G5 Root Certificate
Microsoft has rolled back the revocation of the Verisign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5 Root Certificate.
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Opinion: Why the ISM Control ‘1471’ Is Impractical for Allowlisting
Airlock's opinion about compliance with Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM) control 1471 using the Airlock allowlisting platform.
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Preventing Ransomware and Zero-Days with Basic Security Controls
Amidst the world's largest ransomware attack, the REvil/Sodinokibi group declares infecting one million systems, surpassing WannaCry in 2017.
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Airlock v1.2 Released with Publisher Support
Airlock version 1.2 now features publisher support for signed files, differential policies reducing network traffic, and Citrix VDI support.
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