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VirusTotal (Google)

About VirusTotal (Google)

Users can submit files from their computer through a browser to VirusTotal. Submission methods include a public web interface, desktop uploaders, browser extensions and a programmatic API. URLs can also be submitted via the webpage, browser extensions and the API. Results are shared with the submitter and between examining partners, who use them to improve their own systems. The service is free to end users for non-commercial use.

Products

  • VirusTotal Community: Allows users to comment on files and URLs and share notes with each other.
  • API: Allows submissions to be scripted in any programming language via an HTTP-based interface.

Used for

  • Identifying false positives where harmless items are detected as malicious.
  • Commenting on files and URLs and sharing notes with other users.
  • Performing complex criteria-based searches to identify and access harmful file samples.
  • Discovering and analyzing new threats to fashion new mitigations and defenses.

Who it is for

  • Cybersecurity professionals and security product developers use the file corpus for insights into emerging cyber threats and malware.

From VirusTotal (Google)'s own website, read 2026-10-24. How we build listings.

How to evaluate SIEM & SOAR

This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of VirusTotal (Google). The category covers two kinds of product, so both frameworks are here. Most buyers need one of them.

Security Orchestration & Automation (SOAR)
25%
Integration Coverage & Quality
Pre-built connectors for your actual SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity, ticketing, email, and cloud tools — not the raw marketplace count; bidirectional actions (not read-only), API depth for the tools with no pack, version-pinning, and how connectors behave when a vendor API changes underneath them
20%
Playbook Authoring & Maintenance Burden
No/low-code visual builder vs. code-required, reusable sub-playbooks and modular components, version control and testing/staging, the real skill profile needed to build and (critically) maintain workflows, and how gracefully a broken playbook fails rather than silently dropping incidents
20%
Agentic AI & Alert Triage
AI-assisted playbook generation from natural language, autonomous Tier-1 investigation and enrichment, alert correlation and case summarization, model grounding/guardrails, and — non-negotiable — a human-approval gate before any AI-driven containment or remediation runs against production
15%
Case Management & Investigation
Case wall / war-room collaboration, auto-documentation of every action for audit and handoff, evidence and timeline capture, SLA tracking and metrics (MTTD/MTTR), and whether case management is native or bolted on from a separate ticketing tool
10%
Platform Fit & Deployment Model
Embedded-in-SIEM/XDR vs. independent fabric, SaaS vs. self-hosted vs. air-gapped options, multi-tenancy and tenant isolation for MSSPs, scale under alert bursts, and exit cost / portability of your playbook IP if you switch platforms
10%
Security, RBAC & Compliance
RBAC and SSO/SAML on the automation console itself, secrets/credential vaulting for the privileged actions playbooks take, immutable audit logging, and certifications (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001) — a SOAR holds keys to your whole stack, so its own blast radius matters
SIEM & Security Analytics
30%
Detection & Analytics
MITRE ATT&CK coverage, behavioral analytics (UEBA), ML detection models, custom detection rules, threat intelligence integration
20%
Investigation & Hunting
Search performance (sub-second on TB-scale data), visual investigation tools, threat hunting notebooks, AI-assisted investigation
20%
Response & Orchestration
Built-in SOAR capabilities, playbook automation, bidirectional integration with EDR/firewall/IAM, case management
15%
Data Management
Log source coverage (500+ integrations), parsing and normalization, data tiering (hot/warm/cold), compliance retention
15%
Scalability & Cost
Ingestion pricing model, elastic scaling, multi-tenant support, data filtering/routing, cost per GB ingested

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Quick Facts

www.virustotal.com
CategoryCybersecurity
SubcategorySIEM & SOAR

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