Anti-malware companies will eventually switch from blacklisting to whitelisting, says Savant Protection CEO. McAfee, Symantec, Sophos, Kaspersky, Trend Micro, and Trend Micro are the likely suspects. Whitelisting has traditionally gotten a bad rap for being labor-intensive, with massive databases of application data. “Whitelisting suffers from the ability to do friend-or-foe analysis and interception,” says CEO Ken Steinberg. “All the major vendors” will make the move, he says, but he can’t name names.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/more-of-a-gray-area