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Scanning files for malware before they enter a system, often with several engines.
Some products at the top are placed there by CyberIndex’s editors; sort any column to order by it instead. How this list is ordered →
— means not known; · not tested; blank: does not apply to that kind of product; ✕ a sourced assertion of absence. These are four different things. The dot after each value shows freshness, and ⓘ opens the evidence.
- Products
- 28
- Vendors
- 24
- Multiscanning
- 10/28
- Sandbox
- 14/28
- FedRAMP
- 1/28
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| Compare | Vendor↕ | Product↕ | Engines↕ – | Multiscanning↕ | Archives↕ | True Type↕ | CDR↕ | Sandbox↕ | DLP↕ | Threat Intel↕ | File Vuln. Assessment↕ | File Structure Validation↕ | API↕ | ICAP↕ | Storage↕ | Common Criteria↕ | FedRAMP↕ | Government Restrictions↕ | Website | Country↕ | Employees↕ – | Customers↕ | Users↕ | Revenue | Market | Licence↕ | Price↕ – | Version↕ | Runs On | Headquarters↕ | Support↕ | Year Established↕ – | Last Update↕ |
| OPSWAT | MetaDefender Core | 33 enginesEngines named by the vendor (33)
The vendor states 30+ engines; 33 are named. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | EAL4+v5.14 | Not known | None known | opswat.com/…/metadefender | United States | 1,000 | 2,100 organisations | 300M users | $300.0M (2026) | Critical InfrastructureEnterpriseGovernment | Paid | Quote | 5.23.0 | CloudContainerLinuxWindows Server | Tampa, United States | 15Support by continent
Support in 15 countries on 4 continents, from 16 known locations For more details, please check the vendor info. | 2002 | 2026-10-18 | |
| Broadcom | Symantec Protection Engine for Cloud Services | 1 engineEngines Estimated by LLM: the vendor does not disclose how many engines it uses, or which. | Not known | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not known | Not known | Partial | Not known | Not known | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not known | Not known | None known | broadcom.com/…/protection-engine | United States | 33,000 | 100K organisationsLLM est. | 50M users | $63.9B (2025) | Enterprise | Paid | Quote | 9.3.1.3 | LinuxWindows | Palo Alto, United States | 38Support by continent
Support in 38 countries on 6 continents For more details, please check the vendor info. | 1961 | 2026-10-28 | |
| OPSWAT | MetaDefender Cloud | 23 enginesEngines named by the vendor (23)
The vendor states 20+ engines; 23 are named. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not known | Not known | Not known | None known | opswat.com/…/metadefender | United States | 1,000 | 2,100 organisations | 300M users | $300.0M (2026) | Critical InfrastructureEnterpriseGovernment | Freemium | Free · paid plans | Cloud service · no version | Cloud | Tampa, United States | 15Support by continent
Support in 15 countries on 4 continents, from 16 known locations For more details, please check the vendor info. | 2002 | 2026-10-28 | |