Overview

MetaDefender Kiosk helps protect your network by enabling control over the flow of data into and out of your organization. It can be used as a media scanning station on your own hardware or on OPSWAT's custom-made kiosks. Media such as USB devices, DVDs, SD cards, flash drives, or floppy disks are processed by Kiosk. After the scan is complete, Kiosk generates a detailed report.

This user guide covers installing, configuring, upgrading, using, and troubleshooting MetaDefender Kiosk.

Key Features

• Protection against zero-day attacks (MetaDefender Core integration)

• Customized data security policies

• Control over data flow

• Active Directory authentication

• Custom Authentication

• Portable Media support including floppy disks, SD cards, CDs, DVDs, encrypted USB, and more

• UI localization

  • Contains bundled language translations and the ability to manually additional languages

• Securely wipe USB drives

• Easier system hardening

User authentication

MetaDefender Kiosk has the following authentication features:

• Active Directory authentication
• Support for Custom Authentication Module

Peripheral media

MetaDefender Kiosk automatically detects multiple peripheral media insertions for the following media types:

• USB devices
• CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray
• Card readers
• SD cards
• Floppy disks

Encrypted USB devices

MetaDefender Kiosk can unlock encrypted USB devices with a given password and process its contents. Kiosk supports the following encrypted USB devices:

Media handling

MetaDefender Kiosk's media handling features include the following:

• Can process drives with multiple partitions
• Can process full or partial media
• Can wipe/format USB drives
• Supports integration with MetaDefender Managed File Transfer for uploading files for processing or uploading/downloading processed files
• USB device soft eject
• CD/DVD eject

Processing files

MetaDefender Kiosk uses MetaDefender Core to process files. MetaDefender Core has the following processing features:

• Scanning with multiple anti-malware engines
• Data sanitization
• Application vulnerability detection
• Heuristics for zero-day threats
• Archive extraction
• File type verification
• Workflow engines

Processing session results

After processing media, MetaDefender Kiosk allows you to view detailed logs and print results.

Customizable interface

The MetaDefender Kiosk user interface includes multiple display languages:

• English
• Arabic
• Hebrew
• Korean
• Vietnamese
• German
• Japanese
• Spanish
• French

With the additional support of customizing the bundled languages or adding other languages.

On-screen keyboards are also supported for all of these languages.

System hardening

MetaDefender Kiosk comes with a variety of system hardening features for additional security:

• Disables autorun of inserted media
• Users can only exit by pressing ALT+S and if Kiosk is configured to require a password to exit, entering the exit password
• User interface blocks direct access to the underlying system and unnecessary keystrokes
• Runs automatically on system startup

Defending against BadUSB devices

A range of BadUSB devices, including well-known ones like RubberDucky and BashBunny, mimic standard USB Flash Storage devices in appearance. However, beneath their facade, they utilize a USB keyboard interface when connected to host systems. These malicious devices execute keystroke sequences designed to initiate processes, establish shell access, and manipulate system configurations using shortcuts, among other tactics.

With the built-in MetaDefender Kiosk hardening measures, Kiosk significantly enhances its immunity against keyboard-based BadUSB attacks. This safeguards against keystrokes originating from BadUSB devices, which attempt to trigger shortcuts or interact with the Windows OS, by effectively suppressing such attempts. Moreover, the scanning of storage space on BadUSB devices remains intact, thereby enabling the identification and reporting of any malware that may be detected.