Approaching Zero…Trust (Sponsored)

Why It Matters

ThreatLocker’s model reframes cybersecurity from reactive detection to proactive prevention, promising stronger protection against ransomware and supply-chain attacks; its rapid growth signals significant market appetite for comprehensive zero-trust tools.

Summary

ThreatLocker, founded in 2017, promotes a ‘‘deny-by-default’’ zero-trust approach that blocks all unapproved applications and services rather than relying on detection of known threats. CEO/CTO anecdotes trace the product’s origin to school IT problems and ransomware recovery work, and the company has since expanded from endpoint protection into a 15-feature platform. Since 2021 ThreatLocker has grown from a small startup to about 750 employees with roughly 65,000 customer organizations and operations across multiple continents. The firm argues that restricting what users can run dramatically reduces attack surface while requiring only a manageable mindset shift for business environments.

Original Description

Most enterprises have some kind of zero trust strategy, but a lot of them could be better described as good intentions rather than active programs being implemented. Making good on a zero trust strategy and achieving an actual zero trust architecture requires tools that embody the core precept of zero trust thinking: deny access by default.

Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker, joins Johna and John in this sponsored episode to discuss the origins, capabilities, and future of ThreatLocker’s zero trust portfolio. They talk through how that portfolio can help an organization transform its cybersecurity posture; reduce its threat surfaces, alerts, and alarms; and sharply reduce the damage done by successful incursions.

Links:

threatlocker.com/packetpushers

Zero Trust Cloud Access - https://www.threatlocker.com/capabilities/zero-trust-cloud-access

ThreatLocker Knowledge Base - https://threatlocker.kb.help/

ThreatLocker University - https://www.threatlocker.com/resources/threatlocker-university

Cybersecurity 101 - https://www.threatlocker.com/resources/cybersecurity-101

Rob Allen on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/threatlockerrob/

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