20 June 2026•3 min read
The real cost of a stalled application control project
A half-finished application control rollout is the most expensive kind there is. The budget is spent, the posture has not moved, and the meter is still running.
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7 May 2026•5 min read
Essential Eight ML3 is a two-year program. It does not have to be.
The ASD PDF is short, but ML3 delays usually come from manual operations. With the right model, six months is realistic.
27 April 2026•3 min read
Application control is the inverse of antivirus, and the adoption gap shows it
Antivirus blocks known bad. Application control blocks everything unauthorised. Both are essential, but only one is treated as a must-have, and the gap is not about technology.
15 April 2026•1 min read
Essential Eight application control with WDAC: what teams miss in operations
Essential Eight and E8 expectations are easy to state but harder to operationalise without disciplined WDAC policy lifecycle management.