This MetaDefender Endpoint™ release includes various features and enhancements across Windows (v7.6.2505), macOS (v10.4.2505), and Linux (v15.6.2505) platforms, in addition to MetaDefender Endpoint Validation (v3.1.2505). The new additions are designed to enhance endpoint security and operational efficiency, optimize performance, and make it easier for MetaDefender Endpoint users to stay protected against peripheral and mobile media threats.
Device Control Dashboard with Full Visibility
The new Peripheral Device Control feature offers a dashboard with full visibility and real-time management of all ports and connected media. With this dashboard, administrators can gain comprehensive peripheral device control by monitoring, restricting, or auditing usage instantly to ensure policy compliance and reduce the risk of unauthorized device usage.
Up to 300% Faster Malware Scanning
The scan performance has been optimized, boosting the malware scanning process speed by up to 300%, using MetaDefender Cloud™, and enabling faster threat detection. With improved resource management and scanning algorithms, this update delivers greater efficiency without compromising threat detection accuracy.
Real-Time Scanning Results
For enhanced and informed decision-making, MetaDefender Endpoint now provides real-time scanning details, including status, source app, file size and anti-malware results. These real-time insights enable MetaDefender Endpoint users to facilitate more effective incident response.
Improved Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Visibility and Application Patching
Enhancements have been applied across key features, including Application Patches and Application Remover, to ensure consistent and reliable functionality. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)' visibility has also been improved with more accurate and up-to-date information displayed in the Vulnerabilities feature.
Enhanced Performance and Visibility on Linux
In Linux environments, MetaDefender Endpoint users now have real-time visibility into vulnerabilities (CVEs), enabling faster identification and response to the previously known and the latest vulnerabilities. These improvements help organizations maintain a more proactive security posture in Linux endpoints.
Allowlisting Media Access
MetaDefender Endpoint now offers enhanced control through allowlisting of media access. This new feature enables administrators to bypass protection for pre-determined trusted applications by certificates directly from the management console, providing greater flexibility while maintaining centralized oversight.
Resource Consumption Control
In this release, MetaDefender Endpoint also introduces the ability to adjust endpoint's resource consumption via the management console, enabling administrators to easily align resource usage with scanning performance across the organization.
Enhanced User Engagement with Social Media Sharing
MetaDefender Endpoint now enables users to share their security score results and malware mitigation success on social media platforms, including LinkedIn, X, and Facebook. This encourages users to share their progress while inspiring others to take proactive steps toward improving their cybersecurity efforts.
Administrators can easily enable or disable social media sharing for the Security Score feature, offering more flexibility while enhancing user engagement, boosting cybersecurity awareness, and ensuring compliance with security policies.
Endpoint SDK Visibility
Administrators can now enable or disable the Endpoint SDK feature directly from the management console, providing flexibility and centralized control over SDK functionality across managed endpoints.
MetaDefender Endpoint Validation: Improved Transparency and Control
Along with the new release, MetaDefender Endpoint Validation has been updated with two new features to strengthen the transparency and resilience of endpoints:
- The pop-up that provides real-time validation details has been updated to include status and file size, giving users richer context for faster, more informed decisions.
- Secure password rotation has been included to enable password changes directly through the interface, supporting compliance with password rotation policies and reducing the risk of credential-based attacks.
OPSWAT Media Validation Agent Now Supports Windows 7 SP1
OPSWAT Media Validation Agent extends support to Windows 7 SP1 by leveraging dedicated drivers for blocking and unblocking drives. This enhancement enables broader deployment options in legacy environments and extends the compatibility to systems that do not have the SHA-256 support update.
Next-Level Peripheral and Removable Media Protection
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