OPSWAT is a private cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure. Its MetaDefender Platform secures files, devices, and data transfers across IT, OT, cloud, air-gapped, and cross-domain environments. The company applies a prevention-first approach that scans, sanitizes, verifies, and governs content before it reaches sensitive systems, helping organizations reduce exposure to malware, zero-day exploits, and data leakage.
The portfolio spans file security, storage security, cloud threat prevention, email security, managed file transfer, removable media protection, network detection and response, OT asset visibility, and unidirectional data movement. OPSWAT serves more than 2,000 organizations worldwide and is positioned around customers that need strong cyber controls without disrupting uptime, compliance obligations, or segmented network architectures.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
OPSWAT combines multi-engine malware scanning, content disarm and reconstruction, file type verification, vulnerability assessment, sandboxing, threat intelligence, data loss prevention, and AI-assisted detection into policy-driven security workflows. Its platform is built to validate files and devices, monitor network activity, and control data movement across enterprise and industrial environments.
Deployment options span SaaS, customer-managed cloud, containers, and on-premises installations, including offline and air-gapped environments. OPSWAT integrates through REST APIs, ICAP, SIEM and SOAR pipelines, enterprise storage and collaboration platforms, proxies and gateways, and major cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, allowing customers to embed inspection and enforcement into existing workflows rather than replace them.
Products and Services
- MetaDefender Core: Advanced threat prevention platform for securing file uploads, downloads, AI and ML data pipelines, and forensic workflows with deep file sanitization, multiscanning, and policy enforcement.
- MetaDefender Storage Security: Enterprise data protection platform for securing files stored across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud storage environments with continuous inspection and remediation.
- MetaDefender Cloud: Cloud-native file threat prevention platform for securing file uploads and shared content across cloud workflows with malware analysis, DLP, and threat intelligence APIs.
- MetaDefender NDR: Network detection and response platform that turns mirrored network traffic into searchable telemetry and alerts to detect advanced threats, lateral movement, and anomalous behavior across IT and OT networks.
- MetaDefender Kiosk: Removable media and peripheral media security solution available in multiple form factors to scan, sanitize, and control files entering secure environments.
- MetaDefender Aether: Unified zero-day detection solution that combines adaptive sandboxing, threat intelligence, threat scoring, and similarity-based threat hunting for high-confidence malware analysis.
- MetaDefender Email Gateway Security: Email security product that adds advanced malware prevention, phishing protection, attachment sanitization, and DLP controls for inbound and outbound email workflows.
- MetaDefender Managed File Transfer (MFT): Managed file transfer platform for secure, policy-enforced file exchange across IT and OT environments with embedded threat prevention and centralized governance.
- MetaDefender OT Security: OT security platform for industrial and ICS environments that delivers asset discovery, network monitoring, vulnerability and patch management, and compliance reporting.
- MetaDefender Optical Diode: Preconfigured data diode platform for unidirectional data transfer and industrial network segmentation, designed for high-assurance cross-domain and OT use cases.
- MetaDefender ICAP Cloud: Cloud-based ICAP threat prevention service for securing file uploads and web traffic without on-premises infrastructure, using multiscanning, sanitization, sandboxing, and DLP.
- MetaDefender Access: Zero-trust access platform that combines secure network access with deep endpoint compliance, vulnerability management, and policy-based access control.
- MetaDefender Endpoint: Endpoint protection offering focused on peripheral and removable media threat prevention, secure download scanning, and on-access file inspection for critical IT and OT environments.
Target Customers
OPSWAT targets operators of critical infrastructure and other highly regulated organizations that move files, media, and operational data across trust boundaries. Its customer base spans government and defense, energy, nuclear, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, transportation, higher education, and enterprise IT.
The platform is well suited to security teams, SOC analysts, OT and ICS defenders, infrastructure architects, and compliance-driven organizations managing air-gapped, segmented, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. OPSWAT is especially relevant where removable media, file uploads, storage repositories, email attachments, and cross-domain transfers must be secured without interrupting business or plant operations.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: OPSWAT maintains AWS Marketplace listings for multiple MetaDefender offerings, including MetaDefender Core, MetaDefender Storage Security, MetaDefender ICAP Cloud, MetaDefender Endpoint, and related cloud deployment images for BYOL and customer-managed use cases.
- Azure Marketplace: OPSWAT publishes MetaDefender product images in Azure Marketplace, including MetaDefender Core, and provides Azure deployment guidance for running MetaDefender products in cloud and hybrid architectures.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: OPSWAT documentation indicates MetaDefender products are published for GCP marketplace deployment, and its cloud storage security portfolio includes native support for Google Cloud storage workflows.
Key People
- Benny Czarny: CEO, Founder and Chairman of the Board
- Bill Carey: CFO
- Michael Barker: CISO & COO
- Yiyi Miao: CPO
- Jan Miller: Global CTO
- James Neilson: SVP, Global Sales
- Tom Mullen: SVP, Business Development
- Eric Spindel: General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
- Jennifer Erfurth: Global Head of HR
- Dan Lanir: SVP, Customer Experience
- Stephen Gorham: GM Federal
- Itay Glick: GM Hardware and OT Security
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Tampa, Florida, United States
- Employees: Approximately 1,400 employees
- Annual Revenue: Approximately $200M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: OPSWAT Vietnam; OPSWAT GmbH
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Forrester: 2021 The Forrester Wave™: Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Solutions, Q4 2021 — Selected participant and cited as a best fit for the highest-security industrial environments around the world.
