ThreatLocker is a privately held cybersecurity company that is owned by founders Danny Jenkins, Sami Jenkins and John Carolan.
Danny Jenkins serves as the CEO and co-founder of ThreatLocker and Sami Jenkins is the COO and co-founder of ThreatLocker.
And there's also rumors that suggest ownership of ThreatLocker by Kaseya, it's privately owned entity.
The founding team of ThreatLocker leads it's Zero Trust security platform development.
ThreatLocker is legit and are also a highly regarded Zero Trust endpoint security platform.
ThreatLocker is also known for their robust application allowlisting, ringfencing, and even granular control over what runs on endpoints, effectively blocking malware and also unauthorized software.
Although some users of ThreatLocker note that there's a learning curve and occasional post acquisition support shifts.
ThreatLocker is also praised for empowering of IT with deep control, stopping threats at the source, and offer strong value even despite the complexity of initial setup and potential UI/reporting limitations.
The key strengths of ThreatLocker includes.
The effective zero trust which implements a strong "deny by default" policy, and prevents unauthorized apps, which include ransomware from running unless explicitly approved.
The strong application control, with features like Application Allowlisting and Ringfencing provide deep control, stopping of threats before they start and giving confidence which only approved software runs.
Comprehensive security adds layers like Elevation Control, Network Control and Storage Control, which enhances overall endpoint security beyond traditional antivirus.
And many MSPs and even IT professionals find ThreatLocker to be a powerful, stable and cost effective tool for securing diverse environments.
ThreatLocker is not a virus and instead is a robust cybersecurity solution designed to protect organizations by controlling and managing applications and devices.
ThreatLocker offers advanced security features that help protect against ransomware, malware, and other cyber threats.
Unlike antivirus or traditional EDR, ThreatLocker Allowlisting solution puts you in control of what software, scripts, executables, and libraries can run on your endpoints and servers.
This approach stops not only malicious software in its tracks but also stops other unpermitted applications from running.