Anyone Use OPSWAT Gears?

[hjlbx]

Hello,

Just curious to learn more about OPSWAT's Gears.

It has a "Secured Session" and it is unclear whether or not it is similar to Comodo's Virtual Kiosk.

Technical infos is scant.

 

[Piteko21]

OPSWAT GEARS SECURES AND MANAGES YOUR DEVICES FROM THE CLOUD

basically manage your devices to to ensure that everything is secure
and so you have the control and information about the status of applications and your systems up to date and virus problems among other things.

( from what I understand).

 

[Cch123]

Yes and no.

Both operate on the same principle of secure containment, where whatever occurs inside the secure session stays inside the session and would not affect the actual operating system. They are both more akin to a traditional sandbox which uses visualization.

However, there are very significant differences between the implementation of the two systems. Comodo virtual koisk is primarily to keep what happens inside the virtual kiosk inside and not harming the host system. Secure session is primarily used for businesses who wish to keep sensitive information inside the session and not stored in the host system, and not as an antimalware sandox. Hence, it has a plethora of access control and data leak prevention features that comodo does not have.

 

[hjlbx]

Yes and no.

However, there are very significant differences between the implementation of the two systems. Comodo virtual koisk is primarily to keep what happens inside the virtual kiosk inside and not harming the host system. Secure session is primarily used for businesses who wish to keep sensitive information inside the session and not stored in the host system, and not as an antimalware sandox. Hence, it has a plethora of access control and data leak prevention features that comodo does not have.

Hello Cch123,

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

Your last sentence begs the questions: "So which is more secure?"

So the distinction is Secure Session restricts data access whereas Virtual Kiosk restricts access to system resources. Is this correct?

In other words, one would not want to use Secure Session to mess about with malware...?