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| 30 | Controlling Application Behavior |
Applications, the software that ultimately represents the interface between the computational environment of the computer and the real world, are the raison d’être of computers. A major portion of the job of protecting the security of information on the network boils down to controlling what applications can run, and what they are allowed to do. As such, this is one of the most important areas of information security.
Applications can be controlled on the network, by allowing or denying the network connections required for the applications to communicate; and they can also be controlled on the computers on which they run, by restricting which applications can be run on computers and controlling ...
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