To minimize the likelihood and possible effect of cyberattacks, security teams require greater detection and analytic capabilities. Despite this, companies are limited in their ability to detect and respond to advanced and targeted assaults due to a lack of qualified cybersecurity personnel, an overabundance of tools, and broken processes.
To answer these questions, OPSWAT has released two new solutions which aim to minimize the time and effort required for manual analysis, eliminate the requirement for specialized expertise, and break down barriers across diverse tools and workflows:
- OPSWAT Sandbox
- MetaDefender Malware Analyzer
"Malware analysis is a vital tool for management teams looking to go beyond check-the-box compliance procedures toward the proactive threat management and crisis response programs," said OPSWAT CEO Benny Czarny. "Organizations are undertaking a change to keep ahead of skilled adversaries which are attacking vital infrastructure to remain abreast of these attacks."
These tools work together to make malware analysis more intelligent, resulting in faster and more accurate results with less manual effort. MetaDefender Malware Analyzer is a unified, fully integrated platform for malware tool integration, analysis orchestration, playbook automation, and aggregated reporting across several analysis tools.
Finding, training, and retaining malware analysts is difficult for businesses — The most difficult aspect of hiring new employees is that there are not enough qualified prospects. As a result, the vast majority of businesses rely on their staff to learn malware analysis skills, despite the fact, almost half of them say it's difficult to find good training programs. Furthermore, these firms recognize the malware analysis function is understaffed - more than half reported worker burnout in the last 12 months, and far more than half reported active recruitment of existing teams.
Malware analysis technologies are ineffective due to a lack of automation, integration, and accuracy — The lack of automated tools which are not integrated is the biggest problem with malware analysis tools. Without these features, malware analysis might devolve into a time-consuming and error-prone manual procedure involving many tools and workflows. Accuracy is the most critical criterion to consider when assessing malware analysis tools — only around a quarter of businesses are confident in their capacity to detect, investigate, and resolve malware attacks.
