Kaspersky Lab Safe Money Technology Recognized for Outstanding Performance by MRG Effitas

The financial protection technology earns highest accolade for certification in four consecutive financial protection assessments

Woburn, MA – June 18, 2015 - Safe Money, the Kaspersky Lab technology for protecting online payments, has been honored with the MRG Effitas Online Banking/Browser Security Award for 2014/2015, based on its outstanding performance in four consecutive quarterly assessments.

When conducting the quarterly comparative quality assessments, MRG Effitas evaluates the reliability and efficiency of security solutions against financial threats. In particular, the research organization examined Safe Money, a technology incorporated into Kaspersky Internet Security. According to the four quarterly reports from Q2 of 2014 to Q1 of 2015, Safe Money has proven to be one of the most effective financial protection technologies.

Throughout the four tests the solutions had to combat collections of recently-discovered, active financial malware, and to prevent any leakage of payment data during transactions made from already-infected systems that were designed to imitate the most commonly-seen botnets. In Q2 2014, the researchers simulated a Man-in-The-Middle attack, in Q3 2014 and Q1 2015 the tests tried to deceive security systems by redirecting API calls, and in Q4 2014 they bypassed browser protection with the help of Windows Application Compatibility and the Windows AppInit DLL method.

To ensure a level playing-field for all applications, some tests required Kaspersky Internet Security to run with all its subsystems disabled apart from Safe Money; however, even that could not prevent the product from successfully blocking all threats.

Eugene Kaspersky, chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, commented on the results of the studies: “Independent specialized tests are very useful for both customers and developers alike. I’m pleased that our solutions have returned good results in near-real-world conditions. It’s long been clear that protection on the Internet can’t be just a matter of basic antivirus alone; it’s also very important to have other things fully secured too, like for example one’s finances.”

“Not every security technology can effectively combat current financial cyber threats. Even fewer are able to cope with this task consistently in the face of an ever-changing threat landscape. Safe Money is constantly, from test to test, proving its effectiveness. That is why we are pleased to grant Kaspersky Lab the Online Banking/Browser Security Award 2014/15,” said Sveta Miladinov, the founder and CEO of MRG Effitas.

Safe Money is a key Kaspersky Lab financial protection technology. It serves to protect banking transactions and is integrated into Kaspersky Lab products for home users and corporate solutions. The technology provides multi-level protection for the user’s financial activity by checking the computer for malware, ensuring that the payment site is authentic, and safeguarding transactions.

More details about the award can be found here: /about-us/why-kaspersky/awards

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 400 million users worldwide. Learn more at www.kaspersky.com.

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* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2013. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2014–2018 Forecast and 2013 Vendor Shares (IDC #250210, August 2014). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2013.