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# Approved software overview

> Maintain an allow-list of authorized applications and let Kikimora flag anything installed on your endpoints that falls outside it.

**Approved Software** manages software compliance by comparing the applications actually installed on your endpoints against an inventory of explicitly approved entries.

## Purpose

The module establishes an allow-list — a baseline of authorized software for the endpoints across your infrastructure. When endpoint agents collect their software inventories, Kikimora cross-references what it finds against your approved entries and surfaces anything unauthorized, unexpected, or non-compliant.

## Key concepts

* **Approved software** — an application explicitly permitted in your organization. Each entry has a name, an optional version, and its matching configuration.
* **Unapproved software** — an application detected on an endpoint that matches nothing in the baseline.
* **Endpoint scoping** — compliance data can be read globally across the fleet or narrowed to one endpoint.
* **Matching criteria** — matching runs on name alone, or on name and version together when **Compare by name and version** is enabled.

## Related modules

* [Endpoints](/endpoints/index)
* [Compliance hardening](/compliance-hardening/index)
* [Integrity monitoring](/compliance-integrity-monitoring/index)