Yesterday, McAfee announced its intent to acquire one of CoreTrace’s fellow application whitelisting brethren, Solidcore. We are happy for our friends at Solidcore, but even happier for the application whitelisting market overall.
We believe that McAfee’s move further validates our belief (and that shared by Gartner) that application whitelisting will be a foundational component of all anti-malware solutions going forward. This was the theme of our recent RSA panel with Symantec, CA, and even (you guessed it) McAfee! While the parties had differing views on which technology would be the primary anti-malware prevention mechanism (we are adamant that whitelisting is the only answer for effective, zero-day enforcement and that it shouldn’t simply be used to accelerate the scan time of proven ineffective blacklisting approaches), we agreed that application whitelisting will be a key ingredient in all host-based antivirus solutions.
The announcement also reinforces that application whitelisting adoption is escalating exponentially. For our own part, despite the economic downturn, CoreTrace has experienced multiple quarters of double-digit growth with its application whitelisting solution and across multiple industries. Our forecasts are for that trend to continue.
Once again, congratulations to both McAfee and Solidcore for moving the industry forward.