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:

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

Not all USB devices are currently supported. If you have a specific device you need supported, please contact OPSWAT support.

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:

DeviceSoftware VersionFirmware VersionScanningWipeFile HandlingDetail
Avira-Iron-Drive IInfoPure - 3.201812-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/error.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
Biocryptodisk-ISPX--images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png--
Buffalo RUF2-HSCTPASSWORD - 2.67-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
Buffalo RUF3-HSLOPEN_HS - 2.58-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
DataLocker Sentry 3 FIPS4.8.343.05images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
Integral Courier FIPS 1971.0.3.1-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png--
Kanguru Defender Elite 30--images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
Kanguru Defender Elite 2004.0.8.1-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
Kanguru Defender Elite 300--images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
Kanguru Defender 20005.1.6.8-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
Kanguru Defender 30005.1.6.6-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png
McAfee Complete Data Protection4.3.0.224-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/error.png-McAfee File and Removable Media Protection client is installed on the system that MetaDefender Kiosk is installed.
Microsoft BitLocker--images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.pngimages/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/error.png-Supports BitLocker To Go using passwords. MetaDefender Kiosk does not support BitLocker encryption using key files, smart cards, or VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) BitLocker encryptions.
SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise FIPS Edition2.5 SDK 1.2.10.126.615images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png--
SanDisk Cruzer Contour U3 based USB4.08 U3 Launchpad - 1,6,1,1-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png--
USB Flash Security4.1.12.17-images/s/en_GB/7201/e9483755159fbecaf5aef9b1eebd094ee4430d2f/_/images/icons/emoticons/check.png--

Encrypted devices are not supported by OPSWAT Media Validation Agent (OMVA)

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 Vault 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.

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+F4 and, if Kiosk is configured to require a password to exit, entering the exit password
  • User interface blocks direct access to the system to prevent the ability to copy & execute files
  • Runs automatically on system startup
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