Detect and remove threats that can harm your business, users and data. File scanners are a critical primary line of defense, ensuring all incoming files are clean and free of destructive elements.

They leverage a database of existing risk elements and specific mutual characteristics to identify malicious behaviors like hexadecimal identifier patterns, file structure anomalies, or resource manipulations that could negatively affect the system or the user experience. This type of detection is known as heuristic detection.

File Malware Scanner to Detect and Remove Threats

File malware scanners to detect and remove threats is a complex task, with an ever-changing threat landscape that requires a sophisticated, multilayered approach to detect new and emerging threats. It’s important to have a preventative and layered solution that is fast, reliable, and has the flexibility to grow with your business. A hosted file scanner on the Akamai Intelligent Edge platform can provide this security posture without requiring additional infrastructure investments or changes to your application code.

Hosted file scanning is also a great way to reduce the risk of data breaches, which are often associated with malware. This is because a hosted file scanner can be accessed by the security team through an easy-to-use portal, giving them more visibility into potential breaches and enabling them to take quick action.

File scanning can also be integrated into your workflows by exposing alerts in Azure services like Logic Apps or Function Apps, which allow you to automate responses with minimal latency. Alerts can also be continuously exported to Microsoft Sentinel or a SIEM of your choice.