Airlock Digital, a leader in proactive application control and endpoint security, announced the release of “The Total Economic Impact (TEI) of Airlock Digital,” an independent study commissioned by Airlock Digital and conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study demonstrates a significant return on investment (ROI) of 224% and a net present value (NPV) of $3.8 million over three years for organizations adopting Airlock Digital’s allowlisting approach.
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These findings highlight both the financial and insurance value of Airlock Digital's solution.
Forrester’s TEI methodology assesses the potential financial impact of technology investments by gathering insights from customer interviews and modeling a complex organization representing global organizations. According to the study, Airlock Digital was able to:
- 224% ROI over three years
- Net present value of $3.8 million based on quantified benefits versus costs
- Over 25% reduction in overall risk of security breaches
- Zero breaches reported by organizations participating in the study after deploying Airlock Digital
- Significant operational efficiencies with reduced administrative burden
David Cottingham, co-founder and CEO of Airlock Digital, said: “For today’s enterprise, trust cannot be taken for granted… it must be enforced. Allowlisting and application control give organizations the power to only run what they trust, blocking all malware and ransomware before they can execute. Forrester Consulting’s TEI study reinforces the importance of our mission at Airlock Digital, which is to provide proactive endpoint security that makes application control not only possible, but easy.”
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As cyberattacks continue to increase in scale and complexity, more organizations are turning to application control and allowlisting as key components of a proactive security strategy. Traditional reactive security tools attempt to detect and block threats after they are executed—often too late to prevent leakage. Allowlisting reverses this paradigm, enforcing a “Deny by Default” stance that ensures that only trusted and approved software is allowed to run.
This approach dramatically reduces the attack surface, limits the spread of malware and ransomware, and helps organizations meet increasingly stringent regulatory and compliance requirements.
Airlock Digital's modern, operationally friendly implementation of allowlisting allows security teams to adopt this strategy without the administrative complexity traditionally associated with legacy tools.
The study notes that Airlock Digital helps organizations strengthen their security posture, reduce ongoing maintenance costs, and improve software inventory management, while keeping operational and administrative burdens low. The study noted that a single security analyst can effectively manage Airlock Digital policies in significantly less time than traditional solutions, contributing to cost savings and improved productivity.
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For organizations ready to move from reactive defenses to proactive prevention, Airlock Digital provides a quantified and operationally efficient path forward — requiring, according to a Forrester Consulting study, only 2.5 hours per week to manage.
