| 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 Antani |
| Employees | 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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OPSWAT Certification is a security software interoperability certification program for a variety of application types, including:
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 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]
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.
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]