Build versus buy for application control: the in-house engineer is the expensive option
Over a five year period, a specialist who has delivered application control repeatedly costs less than an internal engineer learning it once.
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Over a five year period, a specialist who has delivered application control repeatedly costs less than an internal engineer learning it once.
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.
Application control projects do not fail because the technology is hard. They fail because the environment was not ready for the control before it was introduced.
WDAC documentation teaches the syntax. The hard part is the operating model around it: approvals, exception handling, lifecycle ownership, and what happens at 4pm on a Friday.