Application Control

Expert Curated. Proactive Protection.

Deliver proactive protection against malicious applications. Blackpoint’s intelligence-driven, customized policies simplify management and are uniquely tailored to your client environments, unlike more complex solutions.

Request a Demo →

Expert Curated. Proactive Protection.

Deliver proactive protection against malicious applications. Blackpoint’s intelligence-driven, customized policies simplify management and are uniquely tailored to your client environments, unlike more complex solutions.

Request a Demo

Too Much to Manage, Not Enough Visibility

Legacy approaches were not built for today’s multi-tenant environments. From excessive management overhead to noisy false positives, MSPs need a better way to manage applications without slowing down operations. CompassOne Application Control is the solution.

Management Overhead

Building and maintaining allow and deny lists across multiple tenants is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale.

Approval Management & Client Frustration

Constant approval requests and benign alerts drain your team’s time and focus. Legacy tools often flag legitimate software, overwhelming technicians and interrupting end clients, which erodes their trust.

Blind Spots Across Client Environments

Without clear visibility, risky or unauthorized application activity goes unnoticed. Quickly identify users attempting to run apps that do not belong, helping you detect compromised accounts and flag behavior that needs review.

Defend Against Risky and Abused Apps

Immediately stop what does not belong: unauthorized apps, risky software, and legitimate admin tools not used in your environments, including unexpected RMM software. By automatically blocking these attack vectors, you prevent attacks before they begin.

Precise, Automated Application Control Built for MSPs

Eliminate the burden of managing complex allow and deny lists and approval requests while reducing risk. Application Control acts only when it matters, with no false positives, just precise enforcement based on expert curation.

Proactive Application Defense Backed by a Human-Led SOC

Strengthen defenses and simplify multi-tenant management with global policies, while client-specific rules tailor protection to each environment. Blackpoint’s 24/7 SOC curates real-world threat intelligence to automatically block dangerous applications before they can execute.

Smarter Application Control

Prevent threats before they can execute, without the management burden and alert fatigue of traditional application allow and deny lists.

Expert-Curated Ruleset

Define global or client-specific policies backed by Blackpoint’s SOC, which curates and updates application block rules based on rigorous analysis. This simplifies managed application control and keeps your defenses ahead of emerging threats.

Minimize Operational Overhead

Whitelist the apps your clients need and rely on our expertly vetted list of risky applications for the rest. This tailored yet dependable strategy delivers effective security with minimal approval management.

Flexible Control

Choose the mode that fits, monitor-only or full blocking enforcement, for the right balance of visibility and action.

Protection Beyond Antivirus & EDR

Add a critical layer that blocks unauthorized and abused applications, catching threats that traditional antivirus and EDR often miss.

Policy Enforcement & Compliance

Enforce consistent application usage policies across every tenant environment to strengthen your compliance posture.

Real Results for MSPs

“With Blackpoint, we’ve really kept up with all those changes in the landscape.”

Milan Maricic
CEO, Siax
Read the Siax Success Story

Connect Seamlessly Into Your Ecosystem

Integrations help your business streamline security operations by centralizing threat detection, response, and monitoring in a unified platform.

See All Integrations

Frequently Asked Questions About Application Control

What is application control in cybersecurity?

Application control is a security practice that governs which applications can run in an environment, blocking unauthorized, risky, or abused software before it executes. It stops attacks that rely on malicious apps or legitimate admin tools, adding a layer of protection beyond traditional antivirus.

How is application control different from antivirus and EDR?

Antivirus and EDR focus on detecting and responding to threats that are already running. Application control works earlier, preventing unauthorized or abused applications from executing in the first place. Used together, they close gaps that either would miss on its own.

What is the difference between application control and application allowlisting?

Allowlisting permits only pre-approved applications and blocks everything else, which is secure but heavy to manage across many clients. Modern application control adds expert-curated rules and threat intelligence, so you block what is dangerous without maintaining exhaustive lists for every tenant.

What is managed application control?

Managed application control is application control delivered and maintained by a provider, not your own team. Blackpoint’s SOC curates and updates the rules for you, removing the overhead of list management, so protection stays current across every client environment. Learn more on our managed application control solution page.

READY TO SIMPLIFY APPLICATION CONTROL ACROSS EVERY CLIENT?

See how CompassOne automates application control across all your clients, blocking risky and abused apps without the burden of managing allow and deny lists. Strengthen protection and reduce overhead from one unified platform.

Book Your Demo