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OPSWAT 
Type private Industry OEM technologies and Security applications Founded 2002 Headquarters San Francisco, California, US Area served Worldwide Key people CEO and Founder Benny Czarny
Others: Tom Mullen, Steven Ginn, Patrick Tan, Jeff Garon, Toshit AntaniEmployees 40 Website www.opswat.com OPSWAT, founded in 2002 by Benny Czarny, is a San Francisco-based software company that provides software engineers and IT professionals with software development tools and data services.
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Products
OPSWAT Certification
OPSWAT Certification is a security software interoperability certification program for a variety of application types, including:
- Antiphishing
- Antispyware
- Antivirus
- Backup Clients
- Data Loss Prevention
- Device Access Control
- Hard Disk Encryption
- Health Agents
- Instant Messengers
- Patch Management
- Personal Firewalls
- URL Filtering
- Virtual Machines
- VPN Clients
Although the program shares the idea of software certification with testing agencies like ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs, VB100 and AV-Comparatives, unlike those agencies it does not certify applications for their efficacy, but rather for their level of interoperability/manageability with third-party technology solutions. The program, therefore, is not in competition with anti-malware testing companies and has, in fact, formed partnerships with several of them.[1][2]
As of March 2011 membership consists of more than 45 application vendors including AT&T, AVG Technologies[3], Avira[4], Check Point, ESET[5], Juniper Networks, Kaspersky[6], Kingsoft[7], Panda Software, Verizon and others.[8]
OESIS Framework
OESIS is a software framework, middleware and SDK that provides third party software engineers with a single interface to manage third party software vendors.[9][10][11] Related to this is The OPSWAT Certification Program, a certification program that verifies the compatibility level of endpoint security applications with technology products from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks,[12] Dell Computers, Microsoft and others.[13] Certified application categories include antivirus, antispyware, personal firewalls, hard disk encryption and VPN clients. As of April 2010 over 50 different OEMs are licensing OESIS[14], including Cisco Systems, F5 Networks and Juniper Networks.[15][16]
Other
Metascan antivirus SDK is an application with API that combines eight antivirus engines into a single application (Computer Associates, Norman ASA, ESET, VirusBuster, AVG Technologies, Quick Heal Technologies, Sunbelt Software, and ClamWin).[17] It is also available as a core package that is used to manage a users own anti-malware applications.[18] A primary use case is as antivirus server software, particularly as ASP antivirus.
AppRemover is a software utility and SDK that enables the complete, silent uninstallation of security applications like McAfee and Symantec antivirus and antispyware products from any computer.[19][20] AppRemover has 3 available interfaces: 1. A free, non-commercial application. 2. A commercially brandable GUI similar to OPSWAT's free version. 3. A software development kit (SDK) that is aimed at helping IT managers and software engineers develop their own solutions. The SDK comes as a command line interface (CLI), C++ or COM application programming interface (API).
Secure RAM Disk is a RAM disk software.
Reports
Because the OESIS Framework is widespread and can detect hundreds of antivirus applications, OPSWAT is able to analyze market share data based around actual endpoint installations. On 7 July 2010 the company issued a worldwide antivirus market share report.[21][22]
References
- ^ http://www.opswat.com/media/news/opswat-partners-with-av-comparatives-to-integrate-testing-data-with-opswat2019s-oesis-framework
- ^ http://www.westcoastlabs.com/about/press/release/?pressID=48
- ^ http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080513005399&newsLang=en
- ^ http://www.avira.com/en/company_news/oesisok-logo.html
- ^ http://www.eset.com/press-center/article/eset-attains-oesisok-certification/4580
- ^ http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=207575876
- ^ http://www.waybeta.com/news/5208/international-certification-through-the-oesis-ok-kingsoft-jinshan-_kingsoft/
- ^ http://www.opswat.com/certified
- ^ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/041006widernet-opswat.html?page=1
- ^ http://www.scmagazineus.com/Endpoint-security-From-chaos-to-clarity/article/126917/
- ^ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9178304/Network_access_control_vendors_pass_endpoint_security_testing?taxonomyName=Security&taxonomyId=17
- ^ http://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510400-en.pdf
- ^ http://www.opswat.com/certified
- ^ http://www.opswat.com/media/news/opswat-surpasses-50-oesis-framework-oem-partners-at-end-of-q1-2010
- ^ http://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/solutionbriefs/3510400-en.pdf
- ^ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/041006widernet-opswat.html
- ^ http://opswat.com/products/metascan
- ^ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Vendor-Combines-Seven-Antivirus-Engines-to-Improve-Malware-Scanning/
- ^ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2337087,00.asp
- ^ http://www.avg.com/us-en/press-releases-news.ndi-224788
- ^ http://www.pcworld.com/article/200628/free_products_dominate_security_software_market.html
- ^ http://www.oesisok.com/news-resources/reports/worldwide-antivirus-market-share-report%202010
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