Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business Named a 2014 Information Security Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards Winner

Woburn, MA – November 20, 2014 –Kaspersky Lab today announced that its Endpoint Security for Business solution has been named a winner in the category of Endpoint Security for the Information Security ™ magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2014 Readers’ Choice Awards. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business was named a winner for its enhanced features, ease of installation, configuration and administration of the product. As the IT security industry’s first truly integrated endpoint security platform, the solution was also recognized for excelling in effectively detecting, blocking and cleaning up malware.

This honor adds to Kaspersky Lab’s impressive history of achieving high marks when it comes to the efficacy of its security solutions. This reliability is becoming increasingly important as businesses are experiencing an increase in the number of breaches and cybersecurity incidents. According to a Kaspersky Lab and B2B International survey of worldwide IT professionals, 94% of organizations encountered at least one cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months. This alarmingly high number illustrates the need for businesses to make protection of their IT infrastructure a top priority.

To address this need, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business offers a critical combination of deep protection, efficiency and seamless manageability all from one unified console. As noted in Information Security ™ magazine, one of the more interesting features built into Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is automatic vulnerability scanning, coupled with patch management functions. This allows organizations to prioritize and automatically distribute patches across their corporate networks.

Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is the foundation of Kaspersky Lab’s enterprise security portfolio, taking full advantage of our world-leading threat intelligence ecosystem. The solution provides a tiered security approach based on a single integrated platform, including robust application, device and web control tools, mobile endpoint security and MDM, and systems and patch management. The solution also offers flexible encryption functionality to help protect corporate data in the event of a laptop or removable storage device being lost or stolen.

For more information about Kaspersky Lab security solutions for businesses, please visit: http://usa.kaspersky.com/business-security

Quotes:
Chris Doggett, Managing Director
Kaspersky Lab North America
"With cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated in their attack methods against businesses, it is becoming even more critical for organizations to implement processes and solutions that protect sensitive information. As a result, we expect companies to increase their emphasis on security intelligence, threat detection and enhancing security in 2015. This honor further illustrates the value of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business to help organizations accomplish this goal by enforcing IT policy, keeping users free from malware, preventing data loss and increasing IT efficiency."

About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 17-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 300 million users worldwide. Learn more atwww.kaspersky.com.

* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2012. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2013–2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares (IDC #242618, August 2013). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2012.

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