MetaDefender Core

OPSWAT's file-security platform: every file that enters an organisation is passed through layered detection before it is allowed to execute. Metascan Multiscanning runs it past more than 30 anti-malware engines at once rather than trusting a single verdict; Deep CDR rebuilds documents without their active content across 200+ file types; Proactive DLP classifies and redacts sensitive data; and Adaptive Sandbox, Predictive AI and file-based vulnerability assessment cover what signatures miss. Deployed as a virtual machine, a Kubernetes-ready container, a managed cloud service or a distributed cluster, including in air-gapped environments, and integrated through its API rather than installed on endpoints. It runs on Linux and Windows Server. It is recorded as supporting api integration, archive extraction, behavioral detection and central management console. Its record also notes content disarm & reconstruction, content protection, dlp integration and file-based vulnerability assessment. The stated market is Critical Infrastructure, Enterprise and Government.

Current Version

5.23.0

Product Page

opswat.com/…/metadefender

Market

Critical InfrastructureEnterpriseGovernment

Licence

Paid

Price

Quote

Record Created

2026-09-24

Last Updated

2026-10-18

OPSWAT sells to plant operators rather than households. Founded in 2002 by Benny Czarny, it built its business around a problem ordinary endpoint security does not address: files and removable media crossing into networks that cannot be patched, rebooted or taken offline — power, water, manufacturing, defence, air-gapped government systems — where the answer is to inspect and sanitise whatever crosses the boundary rather than to install an agent on the far side of it. Everything sits on the MetaDefender Platform. MetaDefender Core and MetaDefender ICAP Server scan files in transit using Metascan Multiscanning, which runs one file past many antivirus engines instead of trusting a single verdict, and Deep CDR, which rebuilds a document without its active content rather than judging whether that content is hostile. MetaDefender Kiosk scans removable media at a site entrance and MetaDefender Drive boots a machine to inspect it before it is admitted; MetaDefender Managed File Transfer carries what passes inward; MetaDefender Optical Diode and MetaDefender Unidirectional Security Gateway make a network link physically one-way. MetaDefender Network Access Control and MetaDefender Endpoint cover device posture. The company moved its headquarters to Tampa, Florida in 2023 and has grown partly by acquisition — Impulse (network access control, 2019), Fend (data diodes) and InQuest (file inspection and threat intelligence). OPSWAT also appears in this index as an assessor, not only as a vendor. The OPSWAT Certification column — Platinum down to Bronze — is its assessment of how well another company's antimalware product interoperates with the OESIS Framework, the component that access-control systems use to check what protection a device is running. A level shown in that column is OPSWAT's judgement of someone else's product, not of its own. Vendor page →

Website

opswat.com

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Tampa, United States

Year Established

2002

Customers

2,100 organisations

Users

300M users

Revenue

$300.0M (2026)