Introduction

Introduction

The File Inspection Engine (FIE) is a containerized service that provides real-time scanning verdicts by processing files through synchronous HTTP requests. This means the client waits until FIE completes the file scan and returns a verdict within the same request.

For simpler setups or testing, FIE can be deployed as a standalone container using any OCI-compliant container runtime (for example, Docker).

For larger or more complex environments, Kubernetes deployment allows for greater scalability and resource management.

Privacy

The File Inspection Engine downloads a local threat database to classify files. It does not have the capability to upload files to ReversingLabs systems. If the --with-threat-details flag is enabled, it will contact the cloud API to retrieve additional threat details for malicious (and suspicious, when paranoid mode is enabled) files by submitting only the file hash to Spectra Intelligence.