Windows Application Control Use Case

You Can’t Block Everything So Watch Everything

Every security team knows the dilemma. PsExec, PowerShell, RMMs, Sysinternals — your admins need them. Your business runs on them. But so did the attackers behind MGM ($100M+), Caesars ($15M ransom), and UnitedHealth (7M patients exposed). Same tools. Same permissions. Different intent.

You can't shut them off. Blocking PsExec breaks your ops team. Blocking RMMs kills your helpdesk. Blocking PowerShell... good luck. These tools have to run — and attackers know it.

How spotr.io does it?

spotr.io watches the applications you can't afford to block — and catches the ones that should never be running at all. Flag a banned app the instant someone fires it up. No scheduled scan. No waiting for the next audit. It ran, you know.

From there, behavioral detection models cover the full spectrum: threshold (multiple RMM tools appearing on one host), anomaly (a tool used by someone who's never touched it), rate (lateral movement faster than any human), and sequence (driver load → EDR killed → credential dump in 90 seconds). Every event involving a watchlist tool — 280+ RMMs, LOLBins, LOLDrivers, vulnerable drivers — gets tagged and tracked on stream.

Allowlisting decides what can run. spotr.io catches what shouldn't be running — and detects when what's allowed is being weaponized.

The tools have to stay. The attackers don't.