Cisco Secure Malware Analytics

Cisco Secure Malware Analytics, formerly Threat Grid, is an advanced malware analysis and dynamic sandboxing platform designed to provide security teams with deep technical insights into unknown, suspicious, and evasive cyber threats. The platform executes suspicious files, URLs, and software payloads inside isolated, instrumented virtual environments to safely observe runtime behaviors, network communications, memory modifications, and operating system alterations without risking production systems.

Delivered as an elastic cloud service or an on-premises physical appliance for organizations with strict data sovereignty requirements, the platform ingests files submitted by security analysts, automated workflows, or integrated telemetry feeds. It analyzes samples against billions of historical malware artifacts, assigning dynamic threat scores and generating comprehensive behavioral reports that detail command-and-control communication, persistence mechanisms, and evasion techniques. Cisco Secure Malware Analytics integrates seamlessly into the broader Cisco Secure portfolio—including Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Secure Email, Cisco Secure Firewall, and Cisco Umbrella—as well as third-party SIEM and SOAR platforms via RESTful APIs.

Prominent enterprise use cases include automated zero-day file detonation, SOC alert triage enrichment, proactive threat intelligence extraction, reverse engineering assistance, and indicator-of-compromise harvesting. By transforming opaque suspicious files into actionable, context-rich threat intelligence, the platform allows security operations centers to accelerate incident investigations and strengthen organizational defense postures.