StormShield’s Application Control protects the networks from unapproved applications, which may pose serious risks. Unauthorized applications expose  to new vulnerabilities, compliance risks, data loss, and intellectual property theft.

Application control provides:
- The ability to control via both blacklists and whitelists
- Control over installation of applications
- Control by file type, enabling the administrator to protect sensitive files or ban unauthorized files<
- Control over network access rights, file access rights, and registry access rights
- Control user access to system panels
- Enforcement of applications that must run, such as antivirus, antispyware, or VPNs