Kaspersky Internet Security Wins Best Performance Award 2014 from AV-Test
Woburn, MA – February 27, 2015 –Kaspersky Lab today announces that Kaspersky Internet Security has earned the Best Performance Award from AV-Test, an independent research company. In addition to providing excellent security performance the results of the tests conducted in 2014 show that the Kaspersky Lab solution had minimal impact on system performance, earning the Company a top honor.
Throughout the past year, AV-Test regularly analyzed consumer products on their impact on computer performance and in each assessment, Kaspersky Internet Security proved its superiority. With the solution running and Kaspersky Internet Security’s reliable protection in place, AV-Test found that the computer speed and PC performance were not altered when opening web pages, downloading applications from the Internet, copying data or installing software.
With a new version of Kaspersky Internet Security released in the summer of 2014, both the 2014 and 2015 versions were tested during the year and both displayed excellent security performance. AV-Test also noted the solution’s high scores in the Protection and Usability category tests.
“Kaspersky Lab Internet Security is an absolutely reliable product that consistently met our high test requirements throughout the entire year of 2014,” commented Andreas Marx, CEO AV-Test GmbH.
“In a constantly changing threat landscape, Kaspersky Lab keeps the ‘combat-readiness’ of its solutions at a high level. Most importantly, this is achieved by improving protection technologies rather than increasing the load on the computer’s resources,” said Timur Biyachuev, Director of Anti-Malware research, Kaspersky Lab.
Kaspersky Internet Security was not the only Kaspersky Lab product to be recognized by AV-Test on the basis of tests carried out during 2014. In August 2014, the Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool was named winner of the Best Repair 2014 award for its effectiveness in cleaning up infected systems. Kaspersky Lab is the only company to have won awards in two different AV-Test award categories in 2014.
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.
