OPSWAT Teams Up With Sunbelt Software to Broaden Metascan Scanning Options

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Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:00am EDT

  SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 20 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
OPSWAT, Inc., the leading provider of endpoint security integration
technologies, today announced that it has partnered with Sunbelt Software
to add Sunbelt's VIPRE(TM) antivirus technology to its Metascan(R)
multi-scanning engine.

    "We're very pleased to announce this next level of partnership with
OPSWAT," said Sunbelt Software Vice President of Business Development Chad
Loeven. "OPSWAT is already a key technology partner with Sunbelt through
their OESISOK(TM) program that facilitates integrated security policy
management and control with VIPRE Enterprise in multi-vendor enterprise
environments. Adding VIPRE to Metascan is a great step that helps cement
VIPRE's position as a leading anti-malware technology."

    "Sunbelt's VIPRE engine is the ideal complement for Metascan. Together
these solutions will provide faster and more in depth response to the wide
range of threats," said Toshit Antani, director of engineering for OPSWAT.
"VIPRE will provide Metascan customers a reputable and efficient engine to
protect against a wide range of threats."

    OPSWAT Metascan is an advanced engine for launching scan requests and
obtaining scan results from many antivirus applications, as well as for
analyzing file types. Metascan enables IT professionals and software
engineers to develop multi-scanning solutions leveraging built-in
antivirus engines from Sunbelt and other vendors. Additionally, Metascan
includes an easy, scalable interface that integrates with many
pre-installed antimalware engines.

    Metascan cuts deployment time and expense by providing an application
containing seven antimalware engines and a single interface to manage them
all. Metascan can extract many files and file archives (including ISO,
ZIP, MSI, etc.), and detect over 400 file types including PDF, DOC and EXE
formats. Metascan also easily integrates with third-party software and
hardware via version 1.0 of the ICAP and an intuitive API.

    About OPSWAT

    Founded in 2002, OPSWAT (www.opswat.com) provides software engineers and
IT pros with software development tools and data services to power
manageability and security solutions. The company OPSWAT, Inc. also
founded OESISOK, an open industry-wide certification program that
verifies the interoperability of endpoint security applications with
products from market-leading technology vendors.

    About Sunbelt Software

    Sunbelt Software was founded in 1994 and is a leading provider of Windows
security and management software with product solutions in the areas of
antispam and antivirus, antispyware, and vulnerability assessment. Leading
products include the CounterSpy and VIPRE product lines, Ninja Email
Security, Sunbelt Exchange Archiver, and endpoint firewall technologies.
The company is located in Tampa Bay, Florida.

    For more information about Sunbelt Software, please visit the company's
website at: http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com. To learn more about current
activities, products, and ideas at Sunbelt Software, please visit
Sunbelt's corporate blog at http://www.sunbeltblog.com.

    Copyright Copyright 2009 Sunbelt Software. All rights reserved. All
trademarks used are owned by their respective companies.

    

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Sunbelt Software
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