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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30 May 2026•5 min read
What needs to be true before you start an application control project
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.
4 May 2026•4 min read
The 90% of WDAC nobody documents
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.
28 April 2026•2 min read
Application control status check: why it looks healthier on paper than in practice
Most application control programs stall not because the technology fails, but because they were treated as a deployment instead of a capability that needs an operating model.