IRONSCALES Formalizes Partnership with OPSWAT to Improve Detection and Analysis of Unknown Phishing Threats

TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- IRONSCALES, the world's first automated phishing prevention, detection and response platform, today announced the details of a new partnership with OPSWAT, a global provider of solutions that protect organizations from content and device-based threats, to improve detection and analysis of unknown phishing messages. As part of the collaboration, IRONSCALES' IronTraps, its automatic phishing forensics and incident response module, and OPSWAT's MetaDefender, an advanced threat prevention platform, will automatically test all detected and reported suspicious email attachments against more than 30 leading anti-malware engines, and apply Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology to sanitize the files. This integration provides both company's customers with unmatched phishing threat protection and malware detection and analysis in an era when advanced phishing attacks are increasingly bypassing perimeter defenses.

"Advanced malware-laden phishing emails continue to place an undue burden on security and SOC teams to analyze malicious messages," said, Eyal Benishti, founder and CEO of IRONSCALES. "The integration of IronTraps with OPSWAT MetaDefender will alleviate some of the SOC team backlog by automatically examining all suspicious emails with attachments and prompting immediate remediation when an attack is confirmed."

Benefits of the IRONSCALES-OPSWAT product integration include:

    --  Significantly increase phishing threat detection rates using the
        combined power of more than 30 anti-malware engines
    --  Significantly reduce detection and response times
    --  Detect phishing threats more seamlessly through human and machine
        integration
    --  Sanitize suspicious files without compromising file usability
    --  Protect against zero-day and targeted attacks
    --  Protect against unknown threats with integrated heuristic traffic
        analysis by multiple leading anti-malware engines
    --  Secure cloud resources by scanning with multiple fully updated
        anti-malware engines (anyone can sample this capability at
        MetaDefender.com)

"Integrating IronTraps and MetaDefender provides enterprises with automatic remediation capabilities that will significantly improve the time from threat detection to enterprise-wide response," said Tom Mullen, senior vice president of business development at OPSWAT. "We have been following the evolution of IRONSCALES technology closely for the past few years and believe strongly that its human and machine approach to combat phishing is the right strategy to combat the increasingly sophisticated problem that is email security."

For more information on the IRONSCALES-OPSWAT joint solution, visit https://ironscales.com/opswat/. To learn why a 3-pronged approach to email security is needed today, download IRONSCALES' newest whitepaper here, visit http://www.ironscales.com and follow us @IRONSCALES.

About IRONSCALES
IRONSCALES is the leader in anti-email phishing technologies. Using a multi-layered and automated approach starting at the mailbox-level to prevent, detect and respond to today's sophisticated email phishing attacks, IRONSCALES expedites the time from phishing attack discovery to enterprise-wide remediation from months to seconds, by significantly reducing the workload on incident responders. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, IRONSCALES was founded by a team of security researchers, IT and penetration testing experts, as well as specialists in the field of effective interactive training, in response to the phishing epidemic that today costs companies millions of dollars annually. It was incubated at the 8200 EISP, the top program for cyber security ventures, founded by alumni of the Israel Defense Forces' elite Intelligence Technology unit.

About OPSWAT
OPSWAT is a global provider of cyber security solutions that protect organizations from content-based threats and ensure regulatory compliance. Since 2002, OPSWAT has been helping enterprises identify, detect, and remediate advanced security threats from data and network-connected devices. Trusted by more than 1,200 organizations worldwide, OPSWAT's MetaDefender solutions prevent advanced security threats across multiple channels. With over 30 anti-malware engines, more than 40 supported data sanitization file types, and over 300 technology partners, OPSWAT is a leader in content disarm and reconstruction (CDR) technology, vulnerability detection, multi-scanning, device compliance, and cloud access control. For more information on OPSWAT, visit http://www.opswat.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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