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Product	FortiSandbox by Fortinet View product	VirusTotal by VirusTotal View product
Overview
What it is	FortiSandbox offers dynamic malware analysis, static analysis and sandbox detonation. Use it for zero-day detection. See Malware Analysis alternatives.	See what VirusTotal offers: live YARA hunting. It is built for SOC alert triage enrichment, supports cloud deployment and competes with other Threat Intelligence tools.
Product type	Malware analysis and sandboxing platform	Crowdsourced Threat Intelligence & Multi-Engine File Analysis
Best for	Enterprise, SMB, Financial services, Healthcare, Government, Education, Manufacturing, Retail, Technology, Service providers	Cybersecurity, SOC Teams, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Financial Services
Pricing
Pricing model	Contact Vendor	Contact Vendor
Free trial	Free trial: no	Free trial: yes
Deployment
Deployment options	Cloud	SaaSCloud
Deployment details	Physical appliance, virtual appliance and cloud-assisted options; Physical appliance, virtual appliance and cloud-assisted options	Cloud SaaS; API Service; Cloud SaaS; High-Throughput REST API
Data residency	Depends on deployment, service region, cloud architecture and customer configuration; verify the applicable Fortinet service/region	United States; European Union; Google Cloud Infrastructure
Key features
What it offers	Dynamic malware analysis Static analysis Sandbox detonation Zero-day analysis Threat intelligence File inspection URL analysis Malware analysis	Multi-scanning across 70+ antivirus engines Dynamic behavioral sandboxing VirusTotal Intelligence search Live YARA hunting (Livehunt) VirusTotal Graph visualization Automated multi-engine malware scanning Threat hunting with YARA rules Adversary infrastructure tracking
Platform & access
API access	API access: yes	API access: yes
Single sign-on (SSO)	SSO: yes	SSO: yes
Role-based access (RBAC)	RBAC: yes	RBAC: yes
Multi-tenant	Multi-tenant: yes	Multi-tenant: yes
Mobile app	Mobile app: no	Mobile app: no
Supported platforms	Hardware applianceVMware ESXiKVMMicrosoft Hyper-VAWSMicrosoft AzureFortiSandbox Cloud	Suspicious ExecutablesDocumentsScriptsURLsDomainsIP Addresses
Compliance	Supports security controls used in common regulated environmentsexact certifications depend on product, model, release and deployment	SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001GDPRGoogle Cloud Security Standards
Integrations & coverage
Integrations	FortiGateFortiMailFortiWebFortiProxyFortiClientFortiEDRFortiNDRFortiAnalyzer+1 more	Google CloudSplunkMicrosoft SentinelMISPCortex XSOARREST APIs
Industries	EnterpriseSMBFinancial servicesHealthcareGovernmentEducation+4 more	CybersecuritySOC TeamsIncident ResponseThreat HuntingFinancial Services
Regions	GlobalAvailability varies by product, deployment and service region	Global
Vendor
Company	Fortinet	VirusTotal
Headquarters	Sunnyvale, California, USA	Malaga, Spain
Company size	10,000+	100,000+ (parent: Google)
Founded	2000	2004

FortiSandbox

by Fortinet

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VirusTotal

by VirusTotal

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Overview

What it is

FortiSandbox

FortiSandbox offers dynamic malware analysis, static analysis and sandbox detonation. Use it for zero-day detection. See Malware Analysis alternatives.

VirusTotal

See what VirusTotal offers: live YARA hunting. It is built for SOC alert triage enrichment, supports cloud deployment and competes with other Threat Intelligence tools.

Product type

FortiSandbox

Malware analysis and sandboxing platform

VirusTotal

Crowdsourced Threat Intelligence & Multi-Engine File Analysis

Best for

FortiSandbox

Enterprise, SMB, Financial services, Healthcare, Government, Education, Manufacturing, Retail, Technology, Service providers

VirusTotal

Cybersecurity, SOC Teams, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Financial Services

Pricing

Pricing model

FortiSandbox

Contact Vendor

VirusTotal

Contact Vendor

Free trial

FortiSandbox

VirusTotal

Deployment

Deployment options

FortiSandbox

Cloud

VirusTotal

SaaSCloud

Deployment details

FortiSandbox

Physical appliance, virtual appliance and cloud-assisted options; Physical appliance, virtual appliance and cloud-assisted options

VirusTotal

Cloud SaaS; API Service; Cloud SaaS; High-Throughput REST API

Data residency

FortiSandbox

Depends on deployment, service region, cloud architecture and customer configuration; verify the applicable Fortinet service/region

VirusTotal

United States; European Union; Google Cloud Infrastructure

Key features

What it offers

FortiSandbox

Dynamic malware analysis
Static analysis
Sandbox detonation
Zero-day analysis
Threat intelligence
File inspection
URL analysis
Malware analysis

VirusTotal

Multi-scanning across 70+ antivirus engines
Dynamic behavioral sandboxing
VirusTotal Intelligence search
Live YARA hunting (Livehunt)
VirusTotal Graph visualization
Automated multi-engine malware scanning
Threat hunting with YARA rules
Adversary infrastructure tracking

Platform & access

API access

FortiSandbox

VirusTotal

Single sign-on (SSO)

FortiSandbox

VirusTotal

Role-based access (RBAC)

FortiSandbox

VirusTotal

Multi-tenant

FortiSandbox

VirusTotal

Mobile app

FortiSandbox

VirusTotal

Supported platforms

FortiSandbox

Hardware applianceVMware ESXiKVMMicrosoft Hyper-VAWSMicrosoft AzureFortiSandbox Cloud

VirusTotal

Suspicious ExecutablesDocumentsScriptsURLsDomainsIP Addresses

Compliance

FortiSandbox

Supports security controls used in common regulated environmentsexact certifications depend on product, model, release and deployment

VirusTotal

SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001GDPRGoogle Cloud Security Standards

Integrations & coverage

Integrations

FortiSandbox

FortiGateFortiMailFortiWebFortiProxyFortiClientFortiEDRFortiNDRFortiAnalyzer+1 more

VirusTotal

Google CloudSplunkMicrosoft SentinelMISPCortex XSOARREST APIs

Industries

FortiSandbox

EnterpriseSMBFinancial servicesHealthcareGovernmentEducation+4 more

VirusTotal

CybersecuritySOC TeamsIncident ResponseThreat HuntingFinancial Services

Regions

FortiSandbox

GlobalAvailability varies by product, deployment and service region

VirusTotal

Global

Vendor

Company

FortiSandbox

Fortinet

VirusTotal

Headquarters

FortiSandbox

Sunnyvale, California, USA

VirusTotal

Malaga, Spain

Company size

FortiSandbox

10,000+

VirusTotal

100,000+ (parent: Google)

Founded

FortiSandbox

2000

VirusTotal

2004