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ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform pros and cons

Vendor: ThreatLocker

4.6 out of 5

40 reviews
97% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform excels with application control, ringfencing, and selective elevation, blocking unauthorized applications and providing granular user activity visibility. Praised for customer service and its default-blocking Zero Trust approach, it prevents unauthorized access. Improvements could include flexible training options, faster support response, PSA system integration, and custom rule creation for unsignable software. Some clients find adding applications to the allowlist overwhelming.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform offers comprehensive application control, ensuring unauthorized applications are blocked effectively and minimizing potential threats.

The platform's ringfencing and elevation features provide detailed control, allowing individual processes to be elevated to admin privileges without granting full user rights.

ThreatLocker's Allowlisting functionality enables precise management of application whitelists, enhancing security by preventing unauthorized software installations.

The integration of unified alerts and notifications assists users in quickly addressing issues and maintaining robust security measures.

The Cyber Hero program and customer service are highly rated, providing continuous support and ensuring efficient deployment of security features.

CONS

When new policies are pushed out, ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform does not stagger the updates across devices, potentially causing network congestion.

Software developers face difficulties with categorizing or whitelisting custom applications due to the absence of digital signatures, necessitating manual rule creation.

The reporting system in ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform could benefit from improvements, such as enhanced customization options for reports.

Integrating ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform into existing PSA systems more seamlessly could streamline approval processes.

Learning mode in ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform is too easily accessible, leading technicians to rely on it instead of manually creating policy controls.

ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform Pros review quotes

Founder, Vice President, Chief Security Officer at Aurora InfoTech

Nov 28, 2023

We use ThreatLocker's Allowlisting to whitelist specific applications and prevent unauthorized software from running.

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Nicholas DeFrancesco

Help Desk Coordinator at a aerospace/defense firm with 201-500 employees

Mar 17, 2023

Feature-wise, the learning mode and the fact that it's blocking everything are the most valuable. I don't see why more companies don't use the type of product.

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Chief Executive Officer at Triada Networks

Oct 15, 2024

Allowlisting, in general, is valuable because it allows us to have a lot more granular control over what is executed on a desktop. We are also able to ringfence known vectors of attack through Office applications, email, browsers, etc.

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CEO at Atlantic Data Team

Mar 30, 2023

The great thing is that if you get a malicious email and you try to run something, ThreatLocker is not going to let it do anything. It is not going to let anything infect your network.

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Network Tech at Iowa Solutions Inc

Nov 30, 2023

While it can be frustrating at times, we appreciate the low-level security provided by the application whitelist.

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Business Owner at J&B Technologies, Ltd.

Mar 1, 2023

Using ThreatLocker is effortless because I can access it from an app on my phone, so I can help clients after hours. My client had an issue while I was at dinner, and I didn't have a tech on the problem, but I could deal with it from my phone. I can see what the client is doing and approve or deny it. It helps me deliver better service to my clients when they need it.

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KJ

COO at OverDrive IT

Oct 11, 2023

The most valuable feature is selective elevation, which allows elevating an individual process to admin privilege without granting admin privilege to that user, which has been by far the most useful feature outside of the overall solution itself.

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Charles Loveland

Supervisor, Client Security at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Feb 20, 2025

The biggest one that we focus on is the application control with ringfencing. That combination is very beneficial.

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CEO at TechFox, LLC

Sep 30, 2024

ThreatLocker Allowlisting has all of these features integrated into one console, making it effective.

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Software admin at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 19, 2025

We use it most heavily for elevation control, blocking and giving rights only to certain people or devices, and not allowing the rest to access the software. Elevation control has been second to none for me.

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Founder, Vice President, Chief Security Officer at Aurora InfoTech

Nov 28, 2023

From a reporting perspective, enhancing the ability to customize reports would be beneficial.

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Nicholas DeFrancesco

Help Desk Coordinator at a aerospace/defense firm with 201-500 employees

Mar 17, 2023

If you have a thousand computers with ThreatLocker agents on them, when you approve or create a new policy saying that Adobe Reader that matches this hashtag and meets certain criteria is allowed to be installed, it applies at the top level or the organization level. It applies to every computer in the company. When you make that new policy and push it out and it goes out and updates all of the clients. Unfortunately, at this time, it does not look like they stagger the push-out.

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Chief Executive Officer at Triada Networks

Oct 15, 2024

It would be beneficial to have a tighter integration into PSA systems so that approvals can be done directly without having to leave the PSA.

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CEO at Atlantic Data Team

Mar 30, 2023

Something we have come up against a couple of times is that we have two clients that are software developers. They create software that doesn't have digital signatures and that's not easy to categorize or whitelist with ThreatLocker. We have to go in and make custom rules to allow them to do their work and to be protected from malicious threats.

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Network Tech at Iowa Solutions Inc

Nov 30, 2023

One area I see for improvement is in the visibility of support tickets within the ThreatLocker ticketing system.

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Business Owner at J&B Technologies, Ltd.

Mar 1, 2023

ThreatLocker could offer more flexible training, like online or offline classes after hours. The fact that they even provide weekly training makes it seem silly to suggest, but some people can't do it during the day, so they want to train after work. They could also start a podcast about issues they see frequently and what requires attention. A podcast would be helpful to keep us all apprised about what's going on and/or offline training for those people who can't train during the week.

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KJ

COO at OverDrive IT

Oct 11, 2023

ThreatLocker Allowlisting needs to improve its user interface and overall workflow.

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Charles Loveland

Supervisor, Client Security at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Feb 20, 2025

Their product is solid. I have a hard time complaining much about it because when we do find little things, they are usually interface-related or related to things that would be nice to have.

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CEO at TechFox, LLC

Sep 30, 2024

We identified several areas that we would like to see improved.

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LR

Software admin at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 19, 2025

Better visualizations of what exactly is happening in our logs would be helpful. There can be more visuals on what has been elevated. Presenting this in a more refined manner would be beneficial.

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