Organisations are compelled to implement Application Control solutions to meet security regulations for both internal organisational policy as well as guidance from bodies such as NCSC, ACSC or NIST.

Often the decision to implement these security controls are made by people who do not understand the impact on productivity for advanced technology workers such as developers and engineers, creating the need for complicated configurations and solutions to meet the regulatory obligation and needs of the workforce.

This talk will provide a meaningful compromise to this problem using Managed Installers in Windows Defender Application Control. Attend this session to learn how to create flexibility while still maintaining control of your environment.

There will be demonstrations of the solution including example configurations and installations using a popular package managers such as brew or chocolatey enabling professionals productivity, yet reducing the risk of ransomware or other malicious software being able to have free reign on the system.