Whitelisting is the way to protect against ransomware technologically is the use of application control, or white listing. Cloud-based, peer-to-peer whitelists and reputation scoring give the technology a better chance to catch on. Machine learning can help address the question of whether an application is likely to be malicious or not based on its behaviors and on the analysis of known malware and known good software. One Fortune 100 manufacturing company has begun piloting a next-generation whitelisting product from McAfee.”]