LicenseWatch Software Startup Prevention

Today most companies have policies for what applications is “allowed” to be used. By setting up software policies, most organizations ends up with the very difficult task – What software is not allowed to use and how do we prevent users from using them.

The most common way to prevent applications from being effectively used is restricting the user access rights for the internet. By combining firewall blocking with LicenseWatch the administrator will not only stop unwanted applications from working, but “stop” the applications from being executed.

LicenseWatch Software Startup Prevention is a powerful module for blocking all types of 32 bit applications from being executed. This functionality alines perfectly with any types of software policies and will proactively prevent any users from executing unsupported.

The module LicenseWatch Software Startup Prevention lets any organization setup/build a complete list of unwanted applications.

The bullet proof technology is based on header information on all executable files. This will secure that the user will not be able to execute an application, even when renaming a specific program file.

LicenseWatch Software Startup Prevention benefits:

• Alines with any defined software policies.
• Software Startup Prevention can be defined for working in the complete organization or for a part of it. For more information (See segmentation).
• Stops effectively all 32-bit applications from being executed, ex. Kazaa.exe, Edonkey.exe or Setup.exe.
• Can work in combination with Microsoft System Management Server (See LicenseWatch SMS Option), but will only work with clients/servers running LicenseWatch agent. Microsoft SMS 2003 does not support software startup prevention.

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