ORLANDO, FL – August 5, 2025, (THETECHMUSK=TTM) — ThreatLocker®, a leader in endpoint security and Zero Trust solutions, today announced at Black Hat 2025 a new feature for ThreatLocker customers, Defense Against Configurations (DAC). The DAC dashboard gives IT and security teams a comprehensive, real-time view of vulnerabilities in their environment. When an environment is breached, it’s often because of a misconfiguration. A network administrator might know how to configure an environment to prevent RDP access but at the same time be unaware that attackers can use MSHTA to breach their environment.
That’s where DAC comes in. A built-in dashboard on ThreatLocker customer portals’ homepage displays a visual overview of risk in their environment, color-coded to indicate severity. The dashboard clearly prioritizes misconfigurations, identifies related frameworks, and offers filtering and scoping so they can focus on the most relevant issues for their teams, their environment, or their compliance needs.
“As ThreatLocker grows, I stay close to the real-world challenges our customers face every day. From my conversations with them, it became clear that the next step was to give our customers even more visibility and control to further harden their environments. DAC was the answer, a natural evolution of our growing cybersecurity stack. This solution gives IT teams instant insight into their configurations, a clear view of their compliance stance, and a streamlined path to further protect their businesses,” said Danny Jenkins, CEO and co-founder of ThreatLocker.
Designed to eliminate guesswork and reduce time spent hunting for misconfigurations, DAC is a lightweight, endpoint-level watchdog. It provides actionable steps to strengthen security. It also highlights compliance gaps and empowers customers to swiftly bridge them. DAC’s insights cover system settings across Windows and Mac environments, mapping findings to major compliance frameworks, including NIST 800-171, Essential 8, CIS, HIPAA, and ISO 27001. Further, administrators receive a weekly DAC email with a quick snapshot of their configuration risk posture. The subject line includes the number of critical misconfigurations in the latest scan, and within the email, color-coded summary boxes break down the count by severity, making it easy to gauge overall impact at a glance. This is followed by a detailed list of misconfigurations and the number of affected endpoints or policies.
Key benefits of DAC include:
• Immediate visibility into system misconfigurations before they become vulnerabilities
• Compliance transparency, showing exactly where systems fall short of industry standards
• One unified view, with filters by criticality, system, and framework
• Actionable insights, updated weekly and delivered straight to customers’ inboxes Because DAC lives directly on the endpoint, it captures system configurations at the source, providing current results without adding performance overhead.
DAC is now available to all ThreatLocker customers as part of the platform’s core offering, with no additional license or installation required. To learn more about DAC or to schedule a demo, visit www.threatlocker.com
