OPSWAT Inc. recently launched Metascan-Online.com, a free tool that enables any user to scan content using 20 anti-virus functions. The company tells TMC (News - Alert) that it also has in the pipeline another free service that will allow users to visit any website privately and securely. This upcoming offer will provide the user with a private IP capability that can mask all cookies, explains Benny Czarny (News - Alert), president and CEO.

Czarny says OPSWAT, a profitable, boot-strapped company founded in 2002, sells solutions in four categories.

That includes multi-scanning software, which runs on a server within the business customer’s location, to detect computer viruses. More than 400 customers worldwide have employed this solution. Software vendors like to use this before they do new releases, for example. It’s also been implemented in nuclear facilities; in fact, OPSWAT has specific packaging for those in the nuclear facility environment.

OPSWAT also offers a built-in security toolkit used primarily by software engineers. The company OEMs it to Cisco (News - Alert), Microsoft and others. OPSWAT has built a certification program around this solution, which enables third-party applications to integrate to it. The idea here is to allow for quicker time to market and manageability.

A sandboxing solution from OPSWAT can allow technicians to create a “temporary bubble” – or private instance of the operating system that’s isolated from the rest of the OS – to see how an application is behaving. This is useful for data leak prevention. For example, an employee might use this capability if he or she creates or views a confidential report and doesn’t want to leave a trace of that report on the computer being used to access the information.

OPSWAT also sells URL filtering toolkits on the client and server sides.  

The company has more than 50 OEMs, and more than 400 customers worldwide. It works closely with independent software vendors, and has more than 60 certification partners with which it works to verify third-party software apps – mostly in the security space.

OPSWAT is also proud to provide quarterly market reports on the market share for endpoint security products such as anti-virus, hard disk encryption, backup clients and peer-to-peer applications. In addition to overall usage statistics, in the future OPSWAT will be breaking down the data by geographical location and trends. Data is reliant on the detection capabilities of the OESIS Framework. The next report comes out in early September.