随着网络威胁日益复杂，云端安全面临着持续的压力。平均每千封邮件中，企业每天要拦截35 个基于电子邮件的威胁，而到 2026 年，全球在网络安全解决方案上的支出预计将超过 3000 亿美元。对于领先的云安全提供商而言，平衡高吞吐量与精确的威胁检测对于维护客户信任和运营效率至关重要。
一家总部位于美国的云安全解决方案全球提供商直面这一挑战。他们的电子邮件和网络安全平台每天要处理数以百万计的文件，传统沙箱工具的可扩展性和成本效益令他们苦不堪言。现有解决方案在处理大量生产力文件（如 PDF、Office 文档和图片附件）时速度缓慢，这阻碍了他们跟上客户需求增长的步伐。
Enter OPSWAT’s MetaDefender Aether: an adaptive, emulation-based malware analysis solution built to meet the speed, accuracy, and scalability demands of modern cloud environments. By integrating this next-gen technology, the company drastically reduced file processing times, enhanced detection accuracy, and cut operational costs—all while maintaining their commitment to exceptional cloud security.
新解决方案的要求
该公司不需要自己得出结论；在OPSWAT的专业知识和咨询支持的帮助下，他们不仅更好地了解了他们面临的挑战是如何分解的，而且还使OPSWAT 能够真正量身定制解决方案来应对这些挑战：
- 具有可扩展性，可处理多个地区的日常流量和峰值流量。
- 成本效益高，可避免与基于虚拟机的沙箱解决方案相关的高昂成本。
- 准确快速地处理 PDF、Office 文件和图像附件等生产力文件，快速检测威胁，并将误报率降至最低。
- Cloud 兼容性，可轻松集成到公司现有的 AWS 环境中。
While the company explored various alternatives first, they ultimately decided to trial MetaDefender Aether from OPSWAT.
我们需要一个既能满足不断增长的需求，又能控制成本的解决方案。传统的沙盒虽然有效，但随着我们数据处理需求的增长，已经难以为继。
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实施新一代恶意软件分析
MetaDefender Aether was seamlessly integrated into the customer’s cloud-based pipeline to identify and block threats in email and web traffic. Leveraging multiple layers of analysis, including static, dynamic, and reputation checks, the sandbox quickly identifies threats in common attachment types such as PDFs, Office files, and images. The emulation-based approach enables the company to bypass resource-heavy VM analysis for over 80% of incoming files, reducing average scan times from several minutes to under 20 seconds—a time savings of over 70%. Additionally, this shift has led to a significant reduction in cloud processing costs, cutting operational expenses associated with VM-based sandboxing by approximately 60%.
这些实实在在的改进不仅增强了威胁检测能力，还实现了可衡量的规模效率和成本节约。
Integrating MetaDefender Aether into our pipeline was seamless. We were able to reduce analysis times dramatically, handling most files in under 20 seconds. This improvement allowed our team to focus on more critical threats, rather than getting bogged down by routine analysis.
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部署
One of the key aspects of their decision, the company was able to quickly and easily integrate MetaDefender Aether with their existing cloud-based in an AWS environment. With strict data privacy and security protocols, the company successfully integrated MetaDefender Aether directly into its cloud processing pipeline, adding it as a quick, dynamic analysis step that streamlined threat detection without compromising accuracy. This multi-layered approach involved the following sequential analysis stages:
- 反病毒引擎：进行快速静态分析
- MetaDefender Aether: Provides a fast dynamic analysis, identifying potential threats with a verdict that quickly allows or restricts files.
This configuration enabled MetaDefender Aether to process the majority of files quickly, with only a small percentage moving to the slower VM-based sandbox if flagged for further investigation. The system was optimized for productivity files, the most common in business environments, significantly reducing the cost of threat analysis.
OPSWAT在部署过程中，我们的工程团队提供了令人难以置信的支持，他们与我们的内部团队密切合作，使系统得以快速启动和运行。他们的灵活性和专业知识对于确保顺利过渡非常宝贵。
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主要成果
Since implementing MetaDefender Aether, the cybersecurity provider has achieved substantial improvements in performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness, benefiting from:
- High Throughput: Processing up to 250,000 files per day in four AWS regions, MetaDefender Aether supports global scale with consistent performance and fast scan times (averaging 20 seconds per file).
- Cost Savings: With MetaDefender Aether reducing the reliance on costly VM-based sandboxes, the company has seen substantial reductions in their operational costs.
- Enhanced Detection Accuracy: False positives have decreased, with MetaDefender Aether leveraging machine learning to self-correct over time. This capability has allowed the company to maintain high detection efficacy with minimal manual intervention.
- 提高效率：公司现在可以在管道的早期阶段阻止威胁，只对高风险文件进行基于虚拟机的分析，从而加快了整体处理时间，减少了安全分析师的手动工作量。
- Increased Productivity: MetaDefender Aether’s faster threat detection freed up valuable time for the company’s security analysts, greatly reducing their overall workload.
By reducing our reliance on VM-based sandboxing, we cut costs by over 80%. MetaDefender Aether provided a faster, more accurate detection layer that didn’t sacrifice security performance, even at peak volumes
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The company also reported that deployment and scaling efforts were supported effectively by OPSWAT’s engineering team, who collaborated closely with their in-house DevOps and security engineers to deploy MetaDefender Aether under a compressed timeline.
The reduction in false positives has been a game-changer for our analysts. MetaDefender Aether’s accuracy allowed us to maintain high detection efficacy with minimal manual intervention, improving our team’s overall efficiency.
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更美好的明天Secure
Following the success of MetaDefender Aether, the company is exploring additional use cases and plans to expand its integration across more products in their portfolio. They’ve seen the impact of MetaDefender Aether as a powerful anti-malware solution that enables more efficient analysis of incoming threats and are now considering deploying it across other business units. This expansion offers the potential to further amplify cost savings, operational efficiency, and scalability, as the solution continues to streamline threat detection across an increasing volume of files and diverse workflows.
With MetaDefender Aether, the cybersecurity leader can confidently provide customers with faster and more accurate protection against email and web-based threats, while reducing the operational complexities and costs traditionally associated with VM-based sandboxing. Their investment in OPSWAT’s solution reflects a commitment to maintaining a high-performance security stack that can evolve and scale as cybersecurity threats continue to grow. Looking ahead, the company anticipates that the broader implementation of MetaDefender Aether will unlock additional efficiencies and drive sustained cost reductions, ensuring they remain agile in addressing future challenges.
MetaDefender Aether has proven to be an essential part of our security stack, allowing us to scale up quickly as threat volumes increase. We’re excited to expand its use across more of our products, giving our customers even stronger protection against emerging threats.
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