Today’s solutions deploy seamlessly to the most complex enterprise environments.
Modern solutions address the challenges that have stopped enterprises from deploying application control.
Unlike legacy application control products, modern solutions deploy easily to complex enterprise environments.
We will look at how today’s solutions overcome traditional deployment challenges to make scalable, flexible application control viable for the enterprise. Some of these features and capabilities are shared below:
A Wide Range of Deployment Options
The limited deployment options of traditional solutions have compounded constraints such as narrow operating system support to frustrate enterprise security teams.
By contrast, modern application control solutions offer flexible deployment options—on-premises, in private clouds, or as managed SaaS. Combined with support for a range of current and legacy operating systems, this allows organizations to match security tools to broader infrastructure strategies.
Coverage of Low Connectivity and Constrained Environments
Organizations with disconnected or constrained environments have traditionally been difficult to protect. Many legacy application control solutions are unable to properly cover air-gapped networks, secure multi-zone architectures, or adequately protect low-bandwidth or intermittently connected environments.
Modern application control solutions address the operational realities of these environments through architectural innovations purpose-built for constrained environments.
For air-gapped networks, best-in-class solutions support fully on-premises deployment, ensuring all control and policy infrastructure resides entirely within the organization’s network perimeter. Since these products place trust decisions directly in the hands of the customer (rather than relying on external cloud services), no internet access is required for enforcement, visibility, or exception handling.
For multi-zone or multi-site environments, modern products offer relay agent technology—components that act as trusted intermediaries, enabling endpoint agents to securely receive policy updates and send logs without communicating directly with central servers.
In low-bandwidth environments, modern tools further reduce operational friction by minimizing traffic volume (typically by transmitting only policy deltas, rather than the entire policy itself), allowing administrators to set appropriate policy update intervals, and using relay agents to aggregate and compress communications.
Seamless Integration with Deployment Solutions
The inability of traditional application control products to interface with enterprise software deployment solutions can burden organizations with separate manual exception processes.
Today’s solutions integrate seamlessly with tools such as Jamf and Microsoft Configuration Manager to allow trusted applications to execute securely without manual intervention. This integration streamlines IT operations and ensures consistent, secure deployment pipelines.
For more information about how modern application control deployment and management has been optimized for the enterprise (including the key questions to ask when evaluating solutions), visit our Enterprise Buyer's Guide and Checklist.