OPSWAT

OPSWAT builds critical infrastructure protection (CIP) technology centered on its MetaDefender Platform, which combines file security and threat scanning, peripheral and removable media control, email security using Deep Content Disarm and Reconstruction (Deep CDR), storage security across cloud and on-prem systems, data diodes and security gateways for air-gapped networks, and network detection and response. The company emphasizes a prevention-first philosophy — neutralizing potential threats in files and media by reconstruction rather than relying solely on detecting known-bad signatures — which matters most in environments like energy, manufacturing, and government where a single successful intrusion can have physical-world consequences.

Founded in 2002, OPSWAT is now headquartered in Tampa, Florida (having grown from its original San Francisco base), and reports serving more than 2,100 global customers across finance, energy, government, and manufacturing after more than two decades protecting critical networks. The company also runs OPSWAT Academy, a large-scale certification and training program that has certified over 275,000 professionals.

OPSWAT’s differentiator is depth of focus on air-gapped and industrial/OT environments — data diodes, removable media scanning, Deep CDR — where mainstream enterprise security vendors typically have far less specialized capability.