By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor
(Editor’s Note: This article refers to a video interview shot in San Jose as part of TMCnet’s “On the Road” video series. To view the entire library of videos from Road Shows and other industry shows, as well as product demos and interviews in our in-house studio, visit the TMCnet Videos home page <http://www.tmcnet.com/tmc/videos/>.)
Recently TMC’s CEO, Rich Tehrani, sat down for an interview with Benny Czarny, CEO of Opswat (News - Alert). The company delivers development tools, he said, aimed at software engineers and product managers but also CTOs and other people.
They sell libraries of XML files, executables and other such products. They have two major products, Czarny said. One is The OESIS Framework, a set of libraries that enable client applications to assess, classify and manage security applications.
The other product, he said, is Metascan, which is a scanning product that helps software engineers detect viruses and other threats, using “eight different antivirus engines.” Czarny explained that his company consolidates the updates to all the engines into one, and sends them out from their servers.
Metascan is the "mother of all anti-viruses built out of 8 anti-virus engines," said Czarny, according to TMC’s (News - Alert) Susan J. Campbell in a recent report. "It is built on the concept that no anti-virus is perfect. It has been developed and is being used by very interesting companies, including government agencies for deep inspection of files, buffers, etc."
Czarny said these days, “we’re seeing an increasing amount of signatures. The number of viruses known to be in the wild is enormous. We’re talking between eight to 20 million viruses, which makes it very challenging to create the perfect antivirus solution.”
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