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title: "Why Airlock Digital : Use Cases : Cyber Resilience"
description: "Enhance your cyber resilience with Airlock Digital's proactive application control to prevent, respond and recover from threats and incidents"
source: https://www.airlockdigital.com/cyber-resilience
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Why Airlock Digital : Use Case

# Enhancing Cyber Resilience with Airlock Digital

Strengthen your organization’s ability to prevent cyberattacks

In today’s threat landscape, prevention is essential. Cyberattacks increasingly exploit untrusted software and legitimate tools for malicious purposes. Airlock Digital gives security teams the proactive prevention needed to stop an attacker from gaining a foothold inside your organization by preventing unauthorized code from ever executing.

### Proactive Threat Prevention

Reduce the likelihood of successful attacks by enforcing a [Deny by Default security](/use-cases/zero-trust-endpoint-security) model, ensuring only trusted applications and processes execute.

### Operational Continuity

Block malicious and unauthorized software at the execution layer, protecting critical IT and OT systems from disruption before it can occur.

### Streamlined Compliance

Support adherence to regulatory frameworks like PCI-DSS and the Essential Eight by deploying a Deny by Default posture for all endpoints, and logging every execution and execution-attempt.

### File Execution Visibility

Continuously monitor what is running across endpoints with visibility into executions and execution-attempts.

## How Airlock Digital Supports Cyber Resilience

Airlock Digital empowers organizations to build and maintain cyber resilience with its enterprise-scalable application control capabilities:

### Deny by Default Security

Automatically block untrusted applications, scripts, and processes, significantly reducing the attack surface.

### Granular Application Control

Define trusted applications at the file, path, publisher, or parent process level, ensuring precision in what executes.

### Exception Management

Securely allow temporary exceptions with One-Time Passwords (OTPs), ensuring operational flexibility without sacrificing security.

### Integrated File Intelligence

Leverage [file-level intelligence from VirusTotal](/features/airlock-digital-virustotal) to understand the context and nature of files attempting execution.

## Key Features for Building Cyber Resilience

Comprehensive Application Allowlisting

Enforce strict execution policies to prevent malware and ransomware.

Cross-Environment Protection

Secure IT, OT, and hybrid environments, including legacy systems.

Scalable Deployment

Apply consistent security policies across large, distributed environments with ease.

Proactive Risk Reduction

Use integrated [blocklisting](/features/application-blocklisting) and [allowlisting](/features/application-allowlisting) to minimize exposure to both known and emerging threats.

## Built for Prevention at Scale

By allowing only trusted software and executables to run, Airlock Digital provides an important pillar of cyber resilience with the scalability and ease-of-management practitioners require.

##### Keep Exploring

### Application Control Datasheet

[Read Now](https://www.airlockdigital.com/hubfs/Collateral/Datasheets/Datasheet-Airlock-Digital-Application-Control.pdf)

### Talk to an Expert

[Book a Meeting](https://www.airlockdigital.com/book-a-meeting)