OPSWAT Blog

OPSWAT Awards 600th Interoperability Certification

Posted by admin / May 3, 2012

OPSWAT today announced the awarding of the 600th OPSWAT Certification. Verifying the compatibility of security applications with leading network and technology solutions, OPSWAT Certification is the industry standard for interoperability certification.

Malware Sample Sharing Program

Posted by admin / April 27, 2012

You may already know that Metascan Online is a free file scanning service that allows users to upload suspicious files to determine whether malware is detected by any of 30 anti-malware engines, but did you know that we also use the service to help our partners improve their scanning engines?

New OPSWAT Certifications

Posted by admin / April 18, 2012

We'd like to congratulate our partners on many new OPSWAT Certifications over the past few weeks and to welcome four new partners: Enigma Software, Lumension Security, SonicWALL and Trusteer. Thank you for partnering with us to ensure industry-wide compatibility for your products!

Verdasys Digital Guardian the First Gold Certified Data Loss Prevention Application

Posted by elisse / April 17, 2012

Verdasys, a leader in Enterprise Information Protection software for Global 2000 organizations, today announced that the company's flagship product, Digital Guardian, has received  OPSWAT Gold Certification. With the designation of Gold Data Loss Prevention, OPSWAT has certified that Digital Guardian 6.0 is compatible with leading technology solutions that employ the OESIS Framework, and will be visible on their management consoles.

Engines Added to Metascan Online

Posted by admin / April 17, 2012

More engines continue to be added to Metascan Online, our free file scanning service, which is now using 30+ antivirus engines to simultaneously scan files. Our newest partners on the site include Filseclab, Zoner Antivirus, and nProtect, and we are working with additional vendors to get their engines added soon! 

Video: OPSWAT Certified Products for Home Users

Posted by admin / April 16, 2012

Wondering how OPSWAT Certification can help home users and students? We put together a great new video that describes the benefits of using OPSWAT Certified security applications on your personal computer.

Four key loggers | Four unique scan results

Posted by admin / April 12, 2012

We ran a little test here at OPSWAT Labs earlier this week to help demonstrate why multi-scanning is so important.

First, we did a quick search on Google for keyloggers and downloaded four of them for our project. Next, we submitted all four to our free, online file scanning solution, Metascan Online, and got dramatically different results.

Update to the Secure Virtual Desktop Demo

Posted by admin / March 26, 2012

Based on feedback we've received from users at SecureVirtualDesktop.com, we have released an update to our free, 5-minute demo for secure, anonymous browsing! 

Updates and improvements to the demo include:

Videos from RSA 2012

Posted by admin / March 21, 2012

Thanks to everyone who came by our booth at RSA Conference 2012! We donated $1 to the American Red Cross for every booth visitor - a total donation of $600!

And congratulations to Andrew Hayter of ICSA Labs who won our iPad drawing!

At the conference OPSWAT also met with several partners and customers to discuss our collaborations through Metascan, OESIS, OPSWAT Certification, and AppRemover. Watch these video interviews to learn more about how OPSWAT partners with these companies:

Watch these video interviews to learn more about how OPSWAT partners with these companies:

Array Networks talks about the benefits of OPSWAT Certification

Brian Lilley talks about OPSWAT Certification

David Perry from G Data talks about AppRemover

GFI discusses Metascan Technology

Juniper talks about the OPSWAT Certification Program

Norman talks about Metascan technology

Silicium talks about Metascan technology

ValidEdge discusses Metascan Multi-scanning Technology

Bitdefender talks about OPSWAT Certification

Thanks again to everyone for a great show. See you next year!

New OPSWAT Certifications for March

Posted by admin / March 20, 2012

March has been a busy month for OPSWAT Certification! We have awarded many new certifications and are happy to welcome our newest partner Verdasys to the program! Congratulations to our partners on the following OPSWAT Certifications: