Hosted Web Security Functionality

Protection from malware and spyware

Kaspersky® Anti-Virus. The antivirus databases are updated hourly, with emergency updates released during malware epidemics. The services benefits from the Kaspersky® Anti-Virus acknowledged high detection rates and rapid response to new threats. Kaspersky® BitHunt provides proactive protection from unknown malicious and potentially unwanted programs.

Scanning outgoing traffic. Detecting traces of spyware activity prevents data leakage. This function also makes it easier to find a computer infected with spyware on the network.

Control over the use of Internet resources

Kaspersky® Hosted Web Security helps administrators to manage acceptable use policies block access to undesirable sites.

Administrators can:

• Restrict employee access to specified Internet resources during specified time periods.
• Classify websites into 55 categories, including Alcohol, Computer Games, Erotic/Sex, News, SMS/Ring Tones/Logos, Online Shopping, etc., to provide maximum flexibility when configuring the access control system for each company employee.
• Maintain blacklists and whitelists of web resources manually.
• Block users from loading files of different types to their computers, including:
  • Executable files (EXE, SYS, DLL etc.)
  • Microsoft Office documents (DOC, DOT, XLS, PPT, PPS etc.)
  • Music files (WAV, RA, MID, etc.)
  • Video files (AVI, QT, MPG)
  • Image files (JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNG).
• Mark the category for each website returned in search results in Google, MSN and other search engines, as well as whether access to each of the sites is allowed. This helps reduce the number of attempts to connect to blocked resources.
• Define quotas for bandwidth and amount of data in bytes that can be received by each user (depending on the time of day).

Administrative System and Reports

The service is managed via the secure web portal which allows the administrator to configure all settings and access reports for different periods (day, week, month or year) with varying levels of detail:

• Top 10 viruses detected.
• Hour-by-hour reports on blocked adware/spyware/phishing attacks.
• Top 10 departments (groups) or users in blocked adware/spyware/phishing attacks.
• 10 most popular categories.
• Top 10 departments (groups) and users by the number of bytes received/sent.
• Top 10 categories of blocked resources.
• Detailed report on the use of the Internet in the company.

Reports can be automatically generated and sent to an email address specified by the administrator.

Kaspersky® Hosted IM Security protects instant messaging (IM) systems from IT threats and monitors IM usage within the business.

Principal Characteristics

Protection from IM threats. The service ensures data integrity by protecting again IM worms, spam in instant messaging (SPIM), HTTP tunnelling and penetration of the corporate network by cybercriminals via IM client vulnerabilities.

Unified corporate IM policy. Kaspersky® Hosted IM Security can be used to define rules for the use of IM by different groups of employees regardless of the IM clients used, as well as monitor message traffic for administrator-defined key words/phrases. This helps prevent the leakage of confidential data.

Message archiving. Incoming and outgoing messages can be viewed and searched.

Administration and reports. The service is managed via a secure web portal, enabling administrators to configure settings request a range of reports. Reports are generated automatically and sent to a specified email address.

Additional Advantages

• Significant reduction of the risks associated with the unprotected use of IM.
• Quick and simple system deployment.
• Support for the most popular instant messaging systems, including AOL IM, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo.