Infrastructure safety vendor OPSWAT has introduced the provision of its new MetaDefender Kiosk K2100 {hardware}, designed to supply a cellular possibility for customers who need the corporate’s media-scanning capabilities to work within the area.
OPSWAT’s MetaDefender line of kiosks is designed to deal with a possible safety weak spot for important infrastructure defended by air gaps. In an effort to patch these techniques, audit them, or transfer information amongst them, detachable media like SD playing cards, USB sticks and typically even DVDs are utilized by area service personnel.
The vulnerability of the detachable media is, due to this fact, a possible downside, in accordance with OPSWAT vice chairman of merchandise Pete Lund, not least within the sense that that media could possibly be used to maneuver delicate info off of important infrastructure.
“Oftentimes in OT [operational technology], you’ll have third-party contractors, and oftentimes they should take information off of the machines,” he mentioned. “What we will do is scan info coming in and popping out for PII, hostnames, something that’s delicate information … and sanitize information for that.”
The MetaDefender Kiosk line additionally scans information on detachable media utilizing as much as 30 totally different antivirus safety purposes, in addition to checking by way of binaries and executables for vendor and model information, to find out whether or not they may introduce vulnerabilities into protected techniques.
Furthermore, MetaDefender makes use of content material disarm and reconstruction know-how to guard in opposition to zero-day assaults, Lund famous.
“So oftentimes, zero-days will embody issues that matches particular sample, like you have got a PDF or a Phrase doc with one thing embedded into it,” he mentioned. “And we … take into consideration the use case of a contractor who goes to perhaps a vendor web site, downloads a PDF, however what if that is truly a watering gap web site the place that PDF has been weaponized?”
Therefore, the CDR (content material disarm and reconstruction) know-how within the MetaDefender system is designed to rebuild a PDF or Phrase doc to take away any code or macros that don’t must be there.
Lund mentioned that the goal clients are principally within the manufacturing, chemical processing, vitality and oil industries — however that the system is relevant to any group that has a geographically dispersed or out of doors element to their operations.
“The opposite aspect is people doing digital proof assortment, so people in both the armed forces or army who’re choosing up potential criminally used laptops, thumb drives, telephones,” he mentioned. “Now we have the power to scan, finally, something.”
The K2100 could be ordered from OPSWAT as of now, with shipments anticipated to start out going out later within the first quarter. The product is out there in both a perpetual mannequin — the place the {hardware} could be purchased outright, with licensing charges for the AV engines and totally different capabilities — or as a subscription leasing mannequin with an annual use payment.
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