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Over a five year period, a specialist who has delivered application control repeatedly costs less than an internal engineer learning it once.
Application control blocks unsigned code by design. The answer is not a policy exception, it is a signing pipeline.
A half-finished application control rollout is the most expensive kind there is. The budget is spent, the posture has not moved, and the meter is still running.
A properly signed file can appear unsigned in WDAC audit events depending on how it was loaded. Policies built purely from those events end up bloated.