Protection, Performance, Manageability, and Simplicity

Kaspersky's Anti-Malware Protection Layer provides the best protection value to businesses, with immediate visibility to all corners of the enterprise and a level of responsiveness not seen in other anti-malware approaches.

Protection

Kaspersky Lab’s strategy is to offer a unified set of products built upon a single, world-class anti-malware engine that extends across every layer of the enterprise, from the endpoint to the cloud. Ours is not a inadequately integrated set of disparate products requiring multiple agents and multiple management consoles. A single, proprietary, best of breed engine will power all of our technology solutions, workstation, laptop, smart mobile device, file server, mail server, gateway and into the cloud. Since 2009 and again in late 2010, Kaspersky has moved significantly closer to delivering a single core of premium anti-malware protection technologies to secure heterogeneous IT environments of all sizes.

Performance

Kaspersky consistently provides the highest levels of performance to ensure employees remain productive while they are protected. Kaspersky’s Anti-Malware Protection System assists this high performance rate by providing constant signature updates. Some other anti-malware products update their signature database once per day. Kaspersky keeps its premium malware engine updated hourly, providing the most immediate protection available. This is extremely important for two reasons:

• More updates means smaller updates, minimizing impact on system resources and keeping your employees productive. With over 3,500 signatures being created each day, a single update can dramatically impact system performance.
• Faster updates means you are getting protection to you machine as it’s available, not at the end of the day. Kaspersky updates 22 times per day, compared to 2 or 3 times per day or less from other systems, significantly reducing the window of exposure for our clients.

Kaspersky has one of the smallest footprints in the industry today, using less memory and CPU resources, leaving precious system resources available to keep employees productive. This is especially important in today’s economy where many businesses have delayed updating their PCs. At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C., Microsoft Windows corporate Vice President Tammi Reller said that 74% of business computers are still running Windows XP. She also said that the average age of the PC is now 4.4 years old, which is the highest number that Microsoft has seen in over a decade. Protecting systems resources has never been more important.

Manageability

Multiple agents and multiple management consoles can over-tax already strained resources and reduce the effectiveness of managing your overall anti-malware strategy. Kaspersky's vision is to minimize resource utilization and maximize malware risk management by providing a management console that manages every Kaspersky product, from the endpoint to the cloud, including remote and mobile devices. Our products are manageable from one central view, the Kaspersky Security Center. Regardless of platform, regardless of complexity, you have one view into your malware security to identify and mitigate malware risk.

Simplicity

Often customers realize they need better protection and performance in their environments but, due to the pain of changing anti-malware vendors, often decide not to change. This places them in the position of maintaining an inadequate security environment and accepting the risk to avoid the pain of change.

Kaspersky has dramatically reduced the pain of change by completely automating the process of removal, installation and configuration. Kaspersky's management "wizards", built into its management console, will automatically find all incompatible software, remove it, and install Kaspersky, including the granular policy configuration. Then, with one configurable reboot at the end, the process is done. Remote installation has never been easier, making rollout in a complex, dispersed environment, a SNAP.