Kaspersky Lab and Autotask Endpoint Management Integration Expands Offerings for Managed Service Providers

Woburn, MA – July 22, 2015 –Kaspersky Lab North America and Autotask today announced that Autotask’s Endpoint Management (AEM) solution is now integrated into Kaspersky Lab’s breakthrough anti-malware technologies. The companies’ partnership and integration offers Managed Service Providers (MSPs) an even more unified approach to manage their business and their clients’ endpoints while protecting them from today’s sophisticated cyberthreats.

According to recent Kaspersky Lab research, 2.2 billion malware attacks on computers and mobile devices were reported in Q1 of 2015, which is double the number blocked in Q1 of 2014. It’s clear that the threat landscape continues to intensify as threats become more sophisticated, and customers of all sizes and sectors are seeking to stay ahead and ensure their data is secure. Kaspersky Lab offers MSPs the security solutions and services needed to keep operations, customer and employee data secure from today’s cyberthreats. With Kaspersky Lab’s MSP program, partners can offer their customers:  

• Superior malware detection: Kaspersky Lab is continuously rated as best in class by independent antimalware test labs, this year earning first place in 51 independent tests. With multiple scanning technologies working together in a single codebase, Kaspersky Lab’s efficient engine finds the malware that other security solution providers miss.
• Powerful controls: Implementing Kaspersky Lab’s built-in web content filtering, device controls and application controls means adding a multi-layered umbrella of protection. These tools positively impact customers’ productivity by allowing enforced customized security policies.
• Cloud-assisted protection: Kaspersky Lab holds the world’s most comprehensive database of application reputations. The cloud-based component of the Kaspersky Security Network enables customers to experience fewer false positives and better malware detection than other brands. Additionally, Kaspersky’s Security Network delivers the industry’s fastest time to protection.
• Versatile protection: Help protect all of your customers’ security needs—in every environment. Kaspersky Lab’s solutions include physical, virtual and mobile environments.

Through a single, SaaS unified platform, Autotask Endpoint Management delivers visibility and control of all devices, over any network, across multiple operating systems. With AEM managing computing devices, IT managers, service delivery technicians, managed service providers or service desk managers, can gain instant insight into what they have, where it is and the state it’s in. It allows for keeping all endpoints, including servers, smartphones or any smart Internet-enabled device, secure, stable, monitored and compliant. AEM is simple to deploy, easy to use, scalable and flexible resulting in proactive endpoint management that saves money, increases productivity and reduces risk.

Quotes:

Joe Conti, Head, MSP Channel Sales
Kaspersky Lab North America
“With the ever-evolving threat landscape and the increase in sophisticated cyberthreats, it’s more important now than ever that businesses implement the proper security solutions and services to protect sensitive corporate and customer information. With our partnership with Autotask, it’s easier than ever before for MSPs to protect and manage their customers’ endpoints. Our superior solutions combined with Autotask’s endpoint management means a more secure endpoint with less hassle. By working with Kaspersky and Autotask, MSPs can be sure that they’re offering their customers the very best in endpoint protection solutions and services.”

Len DiCostanzo, SVP Business Development
Autotask
“We are very excited about the integration between AEM and Kaspersky. Kaspersky brings strong leadership in the endpoint security market, and when combined with AEM, provides our joint customers a unique single pane of glass to manage their endpoint security solution.  For IT and managed service providers concerned with the security of their client’s data, this will be a clear differentiator.”

About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is one of the world’s fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and the largest that is privately-owned. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users (IDC, 2014). Since 1997 Kaspersky Lab has been an innovator in cybersecurity and provides effective digital security solutions and threat intelligence for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab is an international company, operating in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 400 million users worldwide.

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