Kaspersky Cloud

Protect your employees and your network from web-based threats.

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The threat is not just spam and phony web sites anymore.

Now – according to recent research by WhiteHat Security – more than 60% of web sites may have at least one serious vulnerability issue. Professional and part-time cybercriminals alike know this and are successfully exploiting those vulnerabilities with drive-by downloads, malicious scripts, and trickery (especially on increasingly popular social media sites).

Worse, the cybercriminals’ methods are shifting; their handiwork, changing rapidly. That’s where Kaspersky Lab comes in-- with timely threat intelligence. Our rapidly expanding, highly-leveraged Internet infrastructure – “the cloud” – can significantly reduce the vulnerabilities that can affect your business. Our unique approach includes:

More Frequent Updates: small hourly updates not only reduce the burden on bandwidth, but also reduce the window of vulnerability.
Kaspersky Security Network: an opt-in network of Kaspersky users who allow their systems to share new threat information, in real time, with our anti-malware experts.
As you’ll discover, Kaspersky endpoint protection products are specifically designed to take full advantage of this vast infrastructure to provide you with the best possible protection as a business customer.

For example – for systems inside-the-firewall – centralized downloading, testing, and distribution of updates is the way to go. But what about when laptops are used outside your business environment? Typical perimeter security devices (e.g., firewalls and web filters) can’t be there to protect you on a risky, public-Internet connection. That’s why so many businesses now get timely updates by automatically connecting their remote laptops directly to Kaspersky’s cloud.

You can always trust Kaspersky’s Anti-Virus Lab to provide you with maximum, dynamic, threat-intelligence protection. Wherever you do business; however you connect to the Internet.

Kaspersky Cloud Delivers Best of Both Worlds Protection with the Combined Power of the Cloud and Your PC

Woburn, MA – August 15, 2011 – Staying safe from today’s complex Internet threats requires a new kind of approach.  As a result, Kaspersky Lab – a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions – today introduced its new 2012 lineup of PC security software to North America. 

Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 pack a double punch against cybercrime with the incredible speed, efficiency and world-wide security information found in the cloud to complement Kaspersky Lab’s sophisticated security technologies on your PC to counter computer threats faster and more effectively than ever before.   

Best of Both Worlds Protection with Kaspersky Cloud

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about “The Cloud” as an answer to keeping us all safe on the Internet.  The truth is that technologies and data stored online - commonly referred to as “in the cloud” - offer some remarkable security advantages.  But, the cloud is not efficient enough as a real first-line of defense for your PC.  Kaspersky Lab’s new 2012 products offer the best of both worlds – taking the benefits of cloud-based intelligence and information distribution, and using this real-time data source to complement some of the world’s most sophisticated protection technologies installed directly on the PC.  We call this combined security strategy Hybrid Protection.

Cloud-based technologies allow our anti-malware experts to immediately see and react to emerging cyber-threats from anywhere around the world.  The cloud then gives our experts the ability to instantly update our worldwide network of users, ensuring they are protected in real-time as the threats attempt to spread. 

But remotely-hosted cloud technology is not a silver bullet, and cannot take the place of proactive security programs installed on the PC itself. The advanced technologies installed on your machine offer immediate, proactive protection from known malware that attempts to infiltrate your PC and, equally important, monitors and blocks any suspicious behavior that could be caused by unknown malware attempting to attack you.  Using a combination of security technology found in both the cloud and installed on the PC is how Kaspersky Lab’s 2012 software provides a superior level of protection with the performance our customers demand.

Kaspersky Cloud and The Enhanced Hybrid Approach

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 offer 28 newly-refined technologies.  Examples of protection technologies that have benefited the most from our Hybrid Protection strategy include:

•  Kaspersky Anti-Phishing and Anti-Spam – by using real-time data from the cloud, Kaspersky Anti-Phishing scanners will keep the latest con-artist emails from reaching your inbox, while Kaspersky Anti-Spam works even more efficiently than ever to counter spam.
• File Advisor – An additional layer of protection that determines the trustworthiness of any file on your computer by checking its worldwide reputation with a single click.  If our experts or other Kaspersky Lab customers have discovered the file is malicious, you won’t be tricked into opening it.
• URL Advisor – Our global database of website safety statistics is immediately at your disposal, and Kaspersky Lab customers will instantly know if a link leads to a trusted, malicious, or questionable website before they click.  For example, when users perform a web search in their favorite browser, the resulting links are clearly flagged with a red, gray or green icon, so users can easily avoid dangerous websites.   
• System Watcher with advanced Roll Back functionality – By automatically monitoring the modifications made to your PC, Kaspersky Lab’s 2012 products can now easily undo or rollback damage caused by malware.  Most actions from a malicious program – even previously unknown malware – can be canceled and reversed, including the restoration of infected files back to their previous condition, eliminating newly-created malicious data, or erasing any changes malicious attacks have made to sensitive registry files.

Kaspersky Cloud Usability and Performance

Kaspersky Lab’s team of experts does the work for you, providing advanced online protection from complex threats that doesn’t confuse, slow down, or annoy our customers.  Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 users will immediately notice how new improvements to our software make it easier to spend their time online, whether shopping and banking, or interacting on social networks.

For example, Kaspersky Lab’s 2012 products boast an entirely new user interface – our most extensive interface overhaul ever – to make these products and their security tools easier than ever to use, and to reassure computer owners that their data and system are safe.  The new interface provides instant visibility into the security status of the system, offers easy access to the most popular Kaspersky features, and gives details on exactly how the cloud is working for them.  This ease-of-access has also been applied to our useful Kaspersky Desktop Gadget, which now provides more customization and instant access to more controls than ever before.  

A cornerstone of Kaspersky Lab products has always been fast and efficient performance with our approach to frequent, small updates that don’t affect system resources.  Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 have been optimized even further to deliver intelligent updates that ensure that our technologies are always up-to-date and available when you need them, keeping your system performing at its peak while any security updates occur.