OPSWAT

wikipedia:OPSWAT is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002 based in San Francisco, CA, they focus on cyberthreat prevention including a focus on malware, sensitive information, and application vulnerabilities.

History

In 2004, OPSWAT launched their first product, the OESIS Framework SDK, aimed at enabling software engineers and technology vendors to develop products to secure and manage endpoints, and detect and manage third-party software applications.

In 2006, the company released MetaDefender, which detects and prevents cybersecurity threats in data that originates from a variety of sources, including email, BYOD, the cloud, and web portals. This was later expanded to MetaDefender Content Security, a platform for DevOps and SecOps aimed at providing protection alongside existing security solutions. This was also expanded to cloud technology.

In 2014 the company launched MetaAccess, which prevents risky devices from accessing local networks and cloud applications.

OPSWAT released MetaDefender Drive in 2018, which improves device trustworthiness for organisations, by inspecting any file on the device for a range of forms of vulnerability or risk.

In 2018 the company's Content Disarm Reconstruction (CDR) technology was ranked number one by the US Government out of five similar vendors

• OPSWAT MetaDefender

See also

• Security: Security portfolio, Security standards, Hardening, CVE, CWE, Wireless Network Hacking, vulnerability scanner, Security risk assessment, SCA, Application Security Testing, OWASP, Data leak, NIST, SANS, MITRE, Security policy, Access Control attacks, password policy, password cracking, Password manager, MFA, OTP, UTF, Firewall, DoS, Software bugs, MITM, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Contents, Security+ Malware, FIPS, DLP, Network Access Control (NAC), VAPT, SIEM, EDR, SOC, pentest, PTaaS, Clickjacking, MobSF, Janus vulnerability, Back Orifice, Backdoor, CSO, CSPM, PoLP, forensic, encryption, Keylogger, Pwn2Own