Up-to-the-Minute Threat Detection
OPSWAT MetaDefender has a mechanism to ensure that the 30+ engines it uses in one solution are fully up to date with the latest anti-malware signatures, ensuring the seamless detection of new and complicated threats.
In combining FileCloud’s robust security features with MetaDefender, enterprises can rest assured that their file security needs are comprehensively covered, with a powerful and up-to-date security posture.
Cast-Iron Chokepoint Security
The chokepoint is the system pathway through which unauthorized access attempts commonly occur and has a crucial role in controlling traffic flow. For this reason, it is often a point of vulnerability for unauthorized access attempts. Common chokepoints are network gateways, authentication servers, remote access gateways, and application interfaces.
Taking steps to secure the chokepoint allows enterprises to filter data and detect malware. MetaDefender uses multiple antivirus engines to scan files for malware at chokepoints, with an excellent detection rate of over 99%. It also uses CDR to sanitize files passing through the chokepoint to ensure that no malicious content enters the network. Additionally, behavior analysis and heuristics identify suspicious activity to identify threats that may not be detected by signature-based methods. With the MetaDefender integration, FileCloud truly has your file security needs covered.
How the FileCloud & MetaDefender Integration Works
Cyberattacks most commonly occur through incoming files containing malicious scripts and URLs. The powerful workflow now integrated into FileCloud allows OPSWAT MetaDefender to scan all file upload requests. FileCloud sends an ICAP request to MetaDefender that includes the file to be scanned. Once MetaDefender has completed the scan, it generates an ICAP response to provide data to FileCloud about the results. If the file is corrupt, FileCloud notifies the user that the file is quarantined, while a file given the all-clear is delivered as intended by the user.
While conducting the scan, MetaDefender checks the validity of URLs, IP addresses, and domains to detect phishing websites and botnets. MetaDefender also analyzes file activity for malicious patterns and detonates files in a sandbox environment for added protection.