OPSWAT Releases MetaDefender for Media Peripheral Media Scanning Solution
MetaDefender is the first multi-engine scanning solution to provide
important protection from viruses and other malware being spread from
USB drives, DVDs and external hard drives
San Francisco, Calif. January 12, 2010 -- OPSWAT, Inc. today announced that it has released MetaDefender for Media: a complete scanning station kiosk for organizations looking to protect themselves from viruses, worms, keyloggers, trojans and other malware which can be spread from peripheral media entering secure environments.
A simple and intuitive solution, MD4M prompts a user to insert their media and proceeds to scan the files with eight antivirus engines (from AVG, CA, ESET and others). After analysis, the user is given a simple summary as to whether or not a threat was discovered.
Previous deployments were limited to small, custom builds at high-security military or financial environments like Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest commercial bank. However, this marks the first time that a peripheral media scanning solution of this type will be available to the general public.
Product Features
• Automatic scanning – whenever media (DVD, CD ROM, USB device, etc.) is attached to a protected device
• Simultaneous multi-engine scanning – scan media using 8 different anti-malware products
• Archive scanning – all common archiving methods are fully supported by the system: compression (zip, rar, etc.), installers (MSI, NSIS), embedded files in documents (Office, PDF)
• Automatic updates – the scan engines do not have to be connected to the internet. When a new anti-malware data file is available, the data is sent from the management console to the scan engines and automatically installed
• Scan logging
• File type detection – verify that a file's extension is accurate
• Supported operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7
Why MD4M?
External media like USB drives are being an increasingly common threat vector for malware. After being hit with a worm that is typically spread from a USB drive, the U.S. Department of Defense went as far as to ban the use of thumb drives, flash memory cards, digital cameras, music players and personal digital assistants.
“Malware that infects media like USB drives takes advantage of a entryway that is difficult to lock down," said Benny Czarny CEO of OPSWAT. “This malware includes the widely distributed, and infamous, Conficker worm, which is primarily spread through external media devices. Any company that values their security needs to create a policy for scanning these devices.”
As many comparative tests of antivirus applications have proved, no single product can detect all threats. MD4M includes up to 8 scanning engines which are optimized to perform extremely fast scanning on external media entering an organization. A product with several different engines and update patterns is ideal for protecting important data from intentional and unintentional transfers of malicious content.
Deployment
MetaDefender for Media is available either as a complete scanning station kiosk or as standalone software to integrate into another solution.
A demo version of the scanning station kiosk is available at OPSWAT’s head offices. A short video on MD4M is available on the OPSWAT Video Page.
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