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Execution Guard

Stop unfamiliar programs at the moment they start.

SafeLayer pauses a new process while it is inspected, then resumes, quarantines, or notifies based on the evidence it sees.

Signal
Process start
Elevated
Real-time events
Fallback
450 ms polling
Scope
System folders excluded
A program tile held at an inspection gate before clean and risky response paths split.

Inspect before it continues

A measured hold creates time for the right response, not a blind block.

Launch inspection

A deliberate decision path for every unfamiliar launch.

Execution Guard handles the process once, even when an application relaunches itself. It uses known evidence where possible and holds only the launches that need analysis.

01

Process start

See the launch event.

SafeLayer scopes the new process and captures the information needed to make a fast, evidence-based decision.

02

Inspect

Pause only when it needs a closer look.

Known clean and cached decisions can continue. An unfamiliar process is suspended while SafeLayer checks it.

03

Respond

Resume, quarantine, or ask for review.

Clean software resumes. Known malicious software is killed and quarantined. Uncertain results follow your configured response.

The outcome is explicit

Make every response understandable.

01

Known malicious

Kill and quarantine

02

Known clean or cached

Resume

03

Needs review

Resume and notify

Made for the real machine

Guard execution without turning normal work into a dead end.

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A practical launch hold
Execution Guard does not claim to stop a program before the operating system launches it. It pauses an unfamiliar process a fraction of a second into launch, then resumes or stops it based on the result.

HONEST PROTECTION

A safe path through uncertainty
A scan failure never leaves a process frozen. It resumes unless the person using the device deliberately chooses to stop it.

FAILS OPEN

Behavioural signals after launch
Canary documents and unusual change bursts surface early signs of encryption activity, while avoiding automatic kills for work that can resemble ransomware.

OBSERVE & NOTIFY

Execution Guard

Make the right call when a program is ready to run.

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