Application allowlisting controls execution, not intent
Allowlisting decides what may run. It does not decide what those things may do.
Approved administrative tools are still approved when an attacker uses them, which is exactly the living-off-the-land problem. It closes the route of bringing your own tooling and leaves the route of misusing what is already trusted, which is why it pairs with behavioural detection rather than replacing it.
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