We are pleased to announce that our MetaDefender Advanced Threat Prevention platform now offers data loss prevention (DLP) to help organizations protect sensitive information and aid complia… Read More

What protections do you have in place to ensure that your software builds are virus-free before releasing to the public? With software supply chain attacks on the rise, it is more important… Read More

Welcome to the September 2018 edition of OPSWAT’s Windows Anti-Malware Market Share Report, which provides an update on the market share of the leading anti-malware vendors and product… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

It has been 11 years since we introduced the OPSWAT Certified Security Applications Program,  and we are happy to announce that just in Q3 this year, OPSWAT has certified 29 application… Read More

Each month, OPSWAT publishes a Windows Anti-Malware Market Share Report, which provides an update on the market share of the leading anti-malware vendors and products. The report focuse… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Today’s email security is not where it should be. Several reports show that numerous threats are still getting through email, and that current email security systems and user training… Read More

OPSWAT MetaDefender and MetaAccess Now Available on Carahsoft SEWP Contracts SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., September 13, 2018 OPSWAT®, a global provider of solutions that protect organization… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Commonly used files such as Microsoft Office, PDF and image files can include potentially harmful active content, such as macros and scripts. While these threats can be detected by anti-malw… Read More

A media security station or media security kiosk is the entry point for data and files going into an air-gapped or isolated network.  An air gap… Read More

When dealing with highly secure networks one of the best ways to defend against threats is to isolate the network to minimize your attack surface.  This isolation can come in several di… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

We are happy to introduce a new calculation method for our package efficacy report. The storage and processing of the data logs have been optimized and the formulas revised to be faster and… Read More

At OPSWAT, we are constantly updating the threat intelligence we have on files and working to connect different analytics together. We know that security is now a top priority in virtually e… Read More

We are excited to announce the release of the MetaAccess Client SDK for OEMs. The MetaAccess Client SDK can now be used to deploy both MetaAccess and OESIS Framework with the added benefits… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Details of the TSMC Virus Attack  On Friday, 3 August 2018, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) was reportedly hit with a variant of the 2017 Wann… Read More

On July 26, 2018, Net One Partners Co., Ltd., OPSWAT Japan's primary distributor, launched "OPSWAT Academy" to train OPSWAT product engineers based on global best practices of OPSWAT product… Read More

2018年7月26日、OPSWAT Japanの 国内一次代理店パートナー ネットワ… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

For all of our customers that are using MetaDefender Cloud, we have launched a new feature for API Calls. To make it easier for you to use MetaDefender Cloud, the OPSWAT team … Read More

Summary SettingContent-ms is an XML file that allows users to create a shortcut to Windows 10 setting pages. Recently a serious vulnerability was published by Matt Nelson, a researcher at S… Read More

In this Lightboard Lesson, John Wagnon from F5 Networks outlines the power of combining F5® BIG-IP® Load Traffic Manager™ (LTM®) with MetaDefender ICAP Server to protect we… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

In the recent “Voice of the Enterprise: Information Security, Workloads and Key Projects 2018” report[1] published by 451 Research, 35% of the more than 500 IT decision makers su… Read More

File uploads are essential for many web portals but also pose an attack vector for cyber criminals. Did you know that web application attacks were the #1 source of successful data breaches i… Read More

The Singapore government today reported that hackers have stolen personal data belonging to some 1.5 million people, calling it "the most serious breach of personal data" the country had exp… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

OPSWAT Data Sanitization (Content Disarm and Reconstruction) focuses on the application file (e.g., Microsoft Office document) to keep it from being used as a delivery method for unknown thr… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

With General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union now in full effect, it is important to consider the privacy implications of using cloud-based anti-virus scanners.  … Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

File uploads are essential for user productivity and many business services and applications. For instance, file uploads are an important function for content management systems, healthcare… Read More

One of the anti-malware engines that OPSWAT provides you with as part of our multi-scanning capability is from INCA Internet, and the company has renamed their engine to TACHYON. OPSWAT cust… Read More

Key members of the OPSWAT team recently joined 3400+ attendees, including leading CISOs, and top security and risk management professionals at the always illuminating Gartner Security and Ri… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

To those of you who used the free "sanitization.@opswat" service, thank you for using the service for malware scanning and data sanitization.   Effective immediately, OPSWAT is disconti… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Latest Windows Anti-malware Market Share ReportHistory 2018 Windows Anti-malware Market Share Report (February 2018)Windows Anti-malware Market Share Report (January 2018)2017 Windows An… Read More

The OPSWAT MetaDefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Held April 16-20 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, this year’s RSA Conference included 42,000 attendees, 700+ speakers, and 600+ companies on the expo floor – all sharing their… Read More

The OPSWAT MetaDefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT MetaDefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

On February 6, 2018, OPSWAT and its partners hosted a very successful Cyber Security Seminar in Herzliya. About 200 people joined executives and business leaders from OPSWAT and its Israeli… Read More

The OPSWAT MetaDefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators… Read More

Boaz Litai and George Chereches On March 20th of this year, OPSWAT participated in the ninth Nordic-Baltic Security Summit held in Tallinn, Estonia. It included 200+ attendees, 20+ speakers… Read More

Come join us at this year’s RSA Conference, “where the world talks security.”  From April 16-20, San Francisco’s Moscone Center will be teaming with information… Read More

OPSWAT CEO and founder Benny Czarny delivered a keynote speech at Cybertech in Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 31, 2018. Cybertech is the most significant conference and exhibition of cyber tec… Read More

New look, new focus on simple, yet powerfully effective threat prevention for enterprises SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2018 – OPSWAT announced today a major rebrand of its product off… Read More

Zero-day attacks are no longer limited to hacker groups and companies; governments have been exploring the use of offensive zero-day capabilities. In fact, state actors, including the U.S… Read More

OPSWAT CTO Taeil Goh joined INCA Internet Corporation (Korean: 잉카인터넷) recently at the launch event for INCA’s new TACHYON line of cyber security prod… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

In November 2017, we published a blog post about how OPSWAT data sanitization (CDR) blocks macro-less attacks that use Microsoft Word documents. Recently, Trustwave published an ar… Read More

Effective March 20, 2018, OPSWAT is updating its licensing model for Metadefender Cloud to the following types of licenses: Prevention API The Metadefender Cloud Prevention API enables: Scan… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

  Last winter, OPSWAT CEO and Founder Benny Czarny spoke on the subject of data sanitization, or Content Disarm and Reconstruction, at San Francisco State University. Data sanitiza… Read More

  Last winter, OPSWAT CEO and Founder Benny Czarny spoke on the subject of data sanitization, or Content Disarm and Reconstruction, at San Francisco State University. Data sanitiza… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Several UK-based vendors and experts recommend "sheep-dipping" removable storage devices – USB drives, hard drives, memory cards, etc. – in order to prevent malware outbreaks. B… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Recently, I received an email that was blatantly attempting to get me to download a malicious email attachment. While this was far from being an advanced attack, the content of the email pr… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Industry experts have projected that business email compromise (BEC) attacks will cost businesses over $9 billion in 2018. The FBI has long warned businesses of this rapidly growing threat v… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

In September 2017, Wired reported that hackers had gained access to multiple electrical power facilities in the U.S. Conceivably, the hackers could have shut off the power for thousands of… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

In one of the most ironic pieces of cyber security news in recent months, Taiwanese police inadvertently gave out USB drives containing malware as prizes for a cyber security quiz, as repor… Read More

In early December 2017, OPSWAT announced that OpenDocument Text files are supported in Metadefender for data sanitization (CDR). Data sanitization, or Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

OPSWAT CEO Benny Czarny speaks at Cyber Week in 2017 Cybertech is coming up in Tel Aviv, Israel. The cyber security conference takes place Monday, January 29th through Wednesday, January 31… Read More

Waqas Amir of HackRead reported on fake Android applications that infect devices with Monero-mining Coinhive earlier this week. Coinhive is a cryptocurrency miner that uses devices' CPU pow… Read More

Despite an increased focus on cyber security in recent years, the number of data breaches continues to rise. As enterprises focus more (and spend more) on security, cyber criminals are step… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

In the mid-2000s, network access control (NAC) became the accepted solution for on-premises networks. NAC restricted access for devices that did not comply with company policy or had become… Read More

Protecting files, systems, and data against malware attacks requires ever more sophisticated anti-malware solutions as attacks increase in volume and complexity. Especially for enterprises… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

This year my colleagues and I were onsite for the first Nuclear Regulatory Commission cyber security program Milestone 8 inspections at the South Texas Project and Monticello nuclear power… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identif… Read More

Instead of purchasing the widely used Microsoft Office suite, many users opt to use the free alternatives LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice. However, these open-source software products cont… Read More

The 2017 Cyber Security Summit series wrapped up in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, November 29th. The conference series provides cyber security thought leadership and updates from an… Read More

The OPSWAT team just got back from AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the event last week, we focused on presenting Metadefender API integrations with AWS cloud infrastructure, whi… Read More

The OPSWAT Metadefender Vulnerability Engine identifies known application vulnerabilities and reports them by severity level. The Vulnerability Engine allows system administrators to identi… Read More

CISOs in every organization dread the possibility of sensitive company files and data being exposed. Yet the need for up-to-date, actionable threat data is huge. Consequently, many incident… Read More

CISOs in every organization dread the possibility of sensitive company files and data being exposed. Yet the need for up-to-date, actionable threat data is huge. Consequently, many incident… Read More

OPSWAT, a global leader in file and endpoint advanced security solutions, today announced the upgrade of its file scanning and anti-malware cloud service to the latest release of Metadefende… Read More