What is the main difference between Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation?

This choice incorrectly attributes 'never delivers a file' to Threat Emulation and conflates it with Extraction's delivery behavior - Threat Extraction always delivers a cleaned file, which this option fails to capture.

Threat Extraction works by removing potentially malicious content such as macros, embedded objects, and active scripts from files, then delivering a clean reconstructed version to the user in under a second. This ensures users always receive a file without delay, while the original can optionally be forwarded to Threat Emulation for deeper sandbox analysis. The defining characteristic is that delivery is guaranteed and near-instantaneous.

Threat Emulation requires significant time to run files through sandbox environments, so sub-second delivery is not possible for Emulation - this option incorrectly implies Emulation can complete in under a second.

Threat Extraction always delivers a sanitized file to the user - it never withholds delivery - so describing it as 'never delivers a file' and associating it with multi-minute delays is factually reversed.