Guide

Learn How To Protect Web Applications From Malicious File Uploads

Sophisticated and evasive threats require a comprehensive security solution. This guide introduces common file upload security risks and essential technologies to protect your web application from file-borne threats. Stay secure without losing productivity.

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Overcome Today’s
File Upload Security
Challenges

File Upload Risks: Attackers try to hide advanced malware and ransomware in innocent-looking productivity files. Learn how to help protect users and secure web applications.

Essential File Upload Security Technologies for Web Apps: The best security solutions combine technologies that protect against file-borne attacks without sacrificing productivity. Learn how antimalware scanning, data sanitization, data loss prevention, and file-based vulnerability assessment protect web applications from malicious file uploads.

OPSWAT’s Comprehensive Approach to Web App Security: Multiple challenges require a comprehensive threat prevention solution. OPSWAT MetaDefender platform combines industry-leading technologies based on both detection and prevention for a true zero-trust approach to protecting web applications against advanced threats for multiple use cases and industries.

A Wide Range of Products to Fit Your Needs: Fast implementation on-premises and in the cloud via REST API, webhook, or any Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) enabled product—also available for containerized web apps, AWS, Salesforce, and more—support for both Windows and Linux. 

OPSWAT MetaDefender

A Unified Solution to Web Application Security

Multiscanning

Identify over 99% of known threats with 30+ anti-malware engines using signatures, heuristics, and machine learning for
early detection

Deep CDR

Sanitize 180+ file types—including archives —and rebuild safe, usable content

Proactive DLP

Content-check 110+ common file types for sensitive & confidential information, including secrets in source code.

File-Based Vulnerability Assessment

Detect known vulnerabilities in over 20,000 software applications using over
1 billion hashes

Archive Extraction

Quickly unpack over 30 compressed file types to speed up Multiscanning and Deep CDR process and improve malware prevention

42% of Attempts at Delivering Malware Attacks Used Archive File Formats, Including ZIP and RAR*

Web Applications need comprehensive protection

against file-borne threats.

*Source: HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report