OPSWAT just released our quarterly market share report with new vendor data! The report, our article about a hospital facing a $218K HIPAA fine, and info about our new partnership with Arbit Security and their Lightspeed Datadiode are all great reads to find out how certain services can leave your network vulnerable, how you can secure it from targeted attacks, and what to do if once your network becomes infected. Read about all this and more in the August newsletter, and tweet us @OPSWAT if you have any questions!
Quarterly Market Share Report Released
We are excited to announce the release of our latest Market Share Report, which is our first-ever report to include market share for anti-malware vendors. Check out the report now to find out who the top three anti-malware vendors are, the Mac versus Windows encryption rates and how many devices have threats or PUAs.
New Partnership With Arbit Security
Through our new partnership with Arbit Security, we are offering secure and threat-free data flow for high-security networks including:
- Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
- Government and Military classified networks
You can also check out the recent webinar we held with Arbit's CEO, where we explain more about the joint solution and discuss its implementation by a government security agency.
Learn more about the partnership >
Hospital Hit With $218K HIPAA Fine
A Massachusetts hospital was recently fined $218k for using a cloud-based file sharing service and violating HIPAA requirements. How can hospitals use Secure File Transfer to comply with HIPAA regulations and keep patient data safe?
Infographic: Phishing and Spear Phishing
Phishing has been in the news a lot lately and seems to be at the center of almost every data breach. Here's what you need to know about phishing and how to not take the bait!
Who's Afraid of Shadow IT?
Many organizations are afraid of Shadow IT tools such as Dropbox as they can be hard to regulate. Here's how to manage and detect popular Shadow IT tools.
Tips for practicing safe SaaS >
Data Sanitization Series, Part II
File structure alterations make small changes to the scripts included in a file. In the second post in our data sanitization series, we discuss file structure alterations and their strengths and weaknesses. If you missed the first post in our series, you can check it out here.
Learn more about file structure alterations >
Upgrade to Latest Version of Metascan
We want to remind our Metascan customers of our Metascan end-of-life policy and encourage you to upgrade to our latest release of Metascan. We will soon stop hosting signature update packages for Metascan releases that are end-of-life (which is currently anything older than 3.8.0). It is important to upgrade to a supported Metascan release so that you continue to get the latest signature update packages and stay protected.
White Paper: Quarantine Configuration
If your organization handles sensitive or confidential data, it is important to mitigate all digital communication risks. Our white paper discusses three main aspects to consider when configuring and maintaining a file quarantine, and goes over the security benefits of implementing a quarantine within your security architecture.
Check Out Our Latest Webinars
In case you missed a webinar, you can view the recorded version on our site. We just added our latest webinars:
- Secure Data Flow Solution for High Security Networks
- What's New in MetaDefender?
- Introducing Metascan for Linux!
Upcoming Events
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OPSWAT Product Updates |
8/26/2015 | Metascan Online version 4.0.20 |
8/24/2015 | OESIS Framework version 3.6.10173.2 |
8/19/2015 | Metascan version 3.9.3 - Release Notes |
8/13/2015 | Gears - Release Notes |
8/03/2015 | MetaDefender version 3.0.10 - Release Notes |
