We are also using FireEye and Palo Alto. As far as I can tell, the quantity of files that the ReversingLabs solution can process in a day is greater than many of these products. Also, the stability of this product seems to be much higher than some of the other ones that we've had issues with.

• Stability
• reliability
• volume of processing

are the pros.

On the other hand - and this is something of a pro and a con - there's a lot of tooling that we need to build up around the solution to get it to integrate with our existing setup. That's a plus and a minus, in that once we get it integrated, and once we understand all of the interfaces to this product and how best to utilize it, then it becomes a tool that we can extend in our own right. But the con side of it is that it takes all that engineering work, all that understanding, all that effort, and we're not there yet. And we've been doing this for some time. Other tools do not require as much of that sort of effort.

ReversingLabs is going to be one of many things that we use. We don't want a mono-culture here, and we don't want information from just one vendor or one perspective. But we do respect ReversingLabs enough to put them in a very critical role in our infrastructure. We want to analyze pretty much everything that comes into our company, from email attachments to new files that are dropped by Microsoft updates, to files that people save on network drives, and we're going to use ReversingLabs to ingest all of those samples.

ReversingLabs is supplemental for us. It will be a kind of filter before things get to the other solutions.

We evaluated most of the features that we were eventually licensing. That included, for instance, the possibility to download malicious programs from the repository. As far as the static analysis engine was concerned, we ran a very in depth evaluation. We also compared the results of those analyses with information that we had available from other tools. So, there were some quite in-depth technical assessments done before purchasing the solution.

I don't believe they looked into any other products before choosing ReversingLabs. And I've been very satisfied with ReversingLabs. If it isn't broken, why try to fix it?