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Woburn, MA – April 12, 2016 -Kaspersky Lab has announced that according to the testing by the independent AV-TEST Institute, Kaspersky Small Office Security took first place for providing the most effective security for Windows 10 among the 11 small business security solutions evaluated. The Kaspersky Lab solution achieved the top score, excelling against the competition in all three categories: protection, performance and usability.

The test examined 11 corporate solutions compatible with Windows 10, covering the categories of protection, speed and usability. In all three categories, only the Kaspersky Lab solution was awarded the maximum of six points; giving a total of 18 points overall.

The protection test took place in two phases. The first phase required the detection of zero-day malware threats from the web and from e-mail attachments. The second phase tested the solutions’ ability to detect widespread and prevalent malware, discovered in the last four weeks by AV-TEST.

In order evaluate the performance, AV-Test reviewed the system load created by a product during detection. If the system load on the client remains small during the highest detection rate, copying data or executing programs will not be negatively impacted.

Finally, to assess the usability of the security solutions, the testers mimicked typical user behavior, launching popular websites, downloading and installing frequently-used applications. During these tasks, the solutions were monitored for how many false positives, or the false detection of safe programs as malicious software, were triggered.

For the overall ranking, only Kaspersky Small Office Security was awarded the top score in all three test categories of the 11 security solutions evaluated for Windows 10.

During protection rate tests, where 140 samples of zero-day malware and 14,658 widespread samples were used, the Kaspersky Lab solution demonstrated 98.75 percent and 99.95 percent detection results respectively. For the usability tests, more than 1.3 million samples were used to examine the solutions for false detections and blockages of legitimate software as malware during a system scan, as well as visiting web sites and installing legitimate software.

"This is not the first time Kaspersky Lab’s corporate solutions have finished as a leader in independent testing by AV-TEST,” said Maik Morgenstern, chief technology officer at AV-TEST. “The current test showed Kaspersky Small Office Security as one of the best security solutions on the market, cooperating perfectly with Windows 10. Even when the solution is installed using standard settings, it can satisfy the most demanding customer security requirements.”

“In this age of raising cybercrime Kaspersky Lab is strongly focused on delivering best of breed security solutions that have minimum impact on user productivity,” said Konstantin Voronko, head of endpoint product management at Kaspersky Lab. “We understand that ransomware, spyware and banking Trojans can not only paralyze businesses, but also damage reputations. Kaspersky Lab delivers truly multilayered protection, which prevents attacks at all stages: from multiple vectors of infection monitoring and prevention, to post-execution applications behavior control. Security is always a tradeoff with usability, and we are proud to be recognized as the best security solution, as well as the solution that has minimum impact on productivity, identifies the minimum level of false positives and maximizes the automatic mitigation and prevention of attacks.”

This is not the first time Kaspersky Lab has taken first place in independent tests. In all previous tests with earlier versions of Windows (including Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1), Kaspersky Lab has showed consistently excellent results, taking the highest score among competitors.

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Kaspersky Small Office Security Is the Leader in New AV-TEST Research under Windows 10

According to the testing by the independent AV-TEST Institute, Kaspersky Small Office Security took first place for providing the most effective security for Windows 10
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