##{"id":96970,"date":"2021-10-05T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/application-whitelisting-by-pc-matic-available-in-australia-to-prevent-ransomwares-global-spread\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:32:00","slug":"application-whitelisting-by-pc-matic-available-in-australia-to-prevent-ransomwares-global-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/05\/application-whitelisting-by-pc-matic-available-in-australia-to-prevent-ransomwares-global-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Whitelisting by PC Matic Available in Australia to Prevent Ransomware&#8217;s Global Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/946558\/PC_Matic_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>MYRTLE&#160;BEACH, S.C., <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 5, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8211;&#160;As ransomware attacks surge globally, Australians are choosing PC Matic&#8217;s application whitelisting to proactively stop ransomware.&#160; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&#038;l=en&#038;o=3312226-1&#038;h=2882352196&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmatic.com%2F&#038;a=PC+Matic\" rel=\"nofollow\">PC Matic<\/a> announced technical and sales support for its business product line, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&#038;l=en&#038;o=3312226-1&#038;h=2635013525&#038;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmatic.com%2Fpro%2F&#038;a=PC+Matic+Pro\" rel=\"nofollow\">PC <span class=\"xn-person\">Matic Pro<\/span><\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&#038;l=en&#038;o=3312226-1&#038;h=1823377073&#038;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmatic.com%2Fmsp%2F&#038;a=PC+Matic+MSP\" rel=\"nofollow\">PC Matic MSP<\/a>, during Australian business hours. <\/p>\n<p>&#034;Our mission is to protect the world from ransomware, and Australians understand that application whitelisting is a critical element in any security stack to proactively stop ransomware,&#034; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Rob Cheng<\/span>, CEO and Founder of PC Matic.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>In direct response to the spread of ransomware, the Australian Signals Directorate, issued the <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&#038;l=en&#038;o=3312226-1&#038;h=730122540&#038;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyber.gov.au%2Facsc%2Fview-all-content%2Fpublications%2Fessential-eight-maturity-model-faq&#038;a=Essential+Eight+Maturity+Model\" rel=\"nofollow\">Essential Eight Maturity Model<\/a><\/u> with four maturity levels (0-3).&#160; Levels 1, 2, and 3, require application whitelisting also called application control.<\/p>\n<p>&#034;PC Matic&#8217;s global whitelist makes it easy to deploy and maintain application whitelisting and to meet the application whitelisting requirements given in Essential Eight,&#034; said Mani Padisetti, Chief Operating Officer at Digital Armour Corporation in <span class=\"xn-location\">New South Wales, Australia<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>PC Matic initially plans to support the Australian market from the far western American state of <span class=\"xn-location\">Hawaii<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>PC <span class=\"xn-person\">Matic Pro<\/span> uses the company&#8217;s patented global whitelisting technology to proactively block cyber threats such as ransomware. PC <span class=\"xn-person\">Matic Pro<\/span> is engineered to seamlessly stack on top of other traditional endpoint solutions and serves as an additional preventative layer for infrastructure, industry, and all levels of government.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about PC Matic, click <u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&#038;l=en&#038;o=3312226-1&#038;h=3588366102&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmatic.com%2F&#038;a=here\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p><u>About PC Matic:<\/u>&#160; Founded in 1999, PC Matic is an American cybersecurity company focused on affordable preventative solutions to today&#8217;s cyber threats.&#160; PC Matic pioneered the cloud-based whitelist of applications, making application whitelisting affordable and easy to use.&#160; In 2021, the National Institute of Standards and Technology appointed PC Matic as its application whitelisting partner in the world renowned Zero Trust Center of Excellence.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&#038;l=en&#038;o=3312226-1&#038;h=1178062242&#038;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F946558%2FPC_Matic_Logo.jpg&#038;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F946558%2FPC_Matic_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/946558\/PC_Matic_Logo.jpg?p=medium600<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Related Links :<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MYRTLE&#160;BEACH, S.C., Oct. 5, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8211;&#160;As ransomware attacks surge globally, Australians are choosing PC Matic&#8217;s application whitelisting to proactively&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}