Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows Shows Best Results in Dennis Technology Labs Q2 Enterprise Anti-Virus Test

Woburn, MA – September 3, 2014 –Kaspersky Lab announced today that Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows has demonstrated the best performance and earned the top AAA rating in a comparative test of business security products conducted by Dennis Technology Labs in Q2 2014.

Dennis Technology Labs’ testing methodology involves separate tests to review the quality of the protection provided and to assess how successful the participating products are at identifying non-hazardous objects. The Protection Rating index reflects the product’s effectiveness in countering contemporary threats and the Legitimate Software Rating index assesses how the security solution classifies objects known to be non-hazardous.

The Protection Rating index is determined as follows: a computer running the participating product is bombarded with 100 recent active threats detected by Dennis Technology Labs’ specialized malicious site detection system; all of these threats are deployed no more than three – four hours after they are proven malicious. If the security solution is capable of detecting the malicious code, neutralizing its actions and removing all the consequences of its operation from the system, it is given one, two or three points respectively. If the solution proves unable to counter the threat, it loses five points. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows successfully protected against 99 percent of the threats and earned 292 points – the highest score of any competing product in the Protection Rating test.

The Legitimate Software Rating index assesses the classification of non-hazardous objects as secure, unknown, unclassifiable, suspicious, unwanted or malicious. It also assesses the actions that the products take or recommend the user to take. The highest score is given to the product which allows legitimate software to be installed without asking for any human involvement. The less accurate the solution, the more human involvement is required; the better known the program being checked, the greater the penalty for misidentifying it. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows successfully identified all the legitimate programs and did not interfere with their installation, earning 858 points.

Overall, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows earned a total of 1150 points, earning the highest score in the test and receiving the AAA certificate.

Also, two other Kaspersky Lab security solutions excelled in Dennis Technology Labs’ Q2 tests. Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 and Kaspersky Small Office Security both earned the AAA rating.

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Oleg Ishanov, Director of the Anti-Malware Research
Kaspersky Lab
“In today’s business, the continuity of workflow processes is crucial to success. To ensure that continuity, effective counter-measures against malware as well as unimpeded operation of legitimate applications are required. As this testing has demonstrated, Kaspersky Lab’s technologies are highly capable at both of these tasks.”

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.

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* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2012. The rating was publed 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.