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January in Review

by OPSWAT
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With the new year comes new advances in our multi-scanning technology! Read about our latest enhancements and how effective they can be at protecting your network from attacks. Stay protected with OPSWAT in 2015!

To stay up-to-date with the latest OPSWAT news, follow us on Twitter: @OPSWAT or visit our LinkedIn company page!


OPSWAT Acquires Red Earth Software

We are excited to announce that OPSWAT has acquired Red Earth Software, leading provider of email security and secure file transfer solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server.

With the acquisition, OPSWAT is now able to move faster towards achieving our vision of secure data workflow; providing organizations with a central security solution for protecting data originating from various sources.

Read more about the acquisition in our announcement.


An alpha version of the new Mail Agent for Metascan® is now available for adding multi-scanning to Microsoft Exchange Server. This new agent submits email attachments to Metascan for scanning by multiple anti-malware engines before the email is delivered

Check out the alpha on the OPSWAT Portal, and send us your feedback!


OPSWAT's quarterly market share report was released this week with our latest figures on antivirus market share and usage, as well as analysis of compromised devices

The results showed the overall value of using multi-scanning technology to scan for malware. Check out the blog post to see the results.

Highlights of this report include:

  • Avast leads the antivirus vendor market with a 21.4% share
  • More than 90% of devices have not run an antivirus full system scan in the last 7 days
  • 3.3% of devices have a threat or PUA detected by a Metascan Online scan

Read the full report on OPSWAT's website, and check out TechWorld's coverage of the report.


AppRemover Beta in Gears

In our latest Gears release, we have now exposed AppRemover functionality (currently in beta) in the free Gears tool, available for download from our website. Try it out to easily uninstall potentially unwanted applications like public file sharing applications, toolbars and more!

Try AppRemover in Gears


Compressed and extractable files are a part of our digital landscape, providing convenience and efficiency, but they are also an incredibly efficient means of transmitting viruses, Trojans and other malware.

Read our latest white paper to learn about malware detection rates of archive file containers versus their extracted contents.


We are very excited to now have Customer Support Teams around the globe to provide local business hour support to our widely spread customer base! Learn about our strategies for ensuring the success of these teams in this recent post from our Vice President of Support and Professional Services.


Upcoming Events
Mar
2
NEI Cyber Security Workshop, New Orleans, LA
Apr
20

RSA Conference 2015, San Francisco, CA

Register for a free expo pass using our code X5EOPSWAT


OPSWAT Product Updates

1/28/2015

Gears - Release notes

1/27/2015

OESIS Framework version 4.1.167.0 - Release notes

1/20/2015

Metascan 3.9.1 alpha - Release notes

1/20/2015

AppRemover version 3.1.22.1 - Release notes

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