Kaspersky Administration Kit

Kaspersky Administration Kit is the essential tool for managing anti-malware protection across your company. Giving you the ability to monitor and control every aspect of your security infrastructure, it’s an ideal solution for organizations of any size. Kaspersky Administration Kit increases protection level, and reduces the total cost of ownership for Kaspersky Lab products. This is the High Value approach from Kaspersky Lab.

Highlights

  • Rapid Threat Protection Deployment
    Kaspersky Administration Kit features three different technologies to help you explore your network: customizable, automatically-generated installation packages; the possibility to install sub-servers to tailor protection to your corporate network, and easily-deployed threat protection applications for workstations, servers and mobile devices.
  • Centralized Threat Protection Management
    Kaspersky Administration Kit gives you a comprehensive suite of administrative tools and capabilities to manage all your threat protection applications. Set up and schedule policies, tasks and hierarchical groups of computers; integrate with Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP solutions; regulate mobile device units and much more.
  • Advanced Continuity and Resilience
    Regular updates to threat protection applications and databases mean Kaspersky Administration Kit constantly checks and ensures your security infrastructure is up to date. Updates are pre-tested before full deployment, while remote diagnostic mechanisms and backup/restore functions go to work in case of emergency.
  • Powerful Reporting System
    Monitor the security status of your corporate network at all times with the help of dedicated dashboards, customizable reports and administration activity logs.

Rapid Threat Protection

  • Fast Deployment System
    Distribute standard deployment packages built on your first install of Kaspersky Administration Kit using any of several distribution mechanisms, or customize your installation package and add/remove third-party software with the tools provided.
  • Support for Distributed Hierarchical Installation
    Set up an unlimited number of sub-level administration servers to match your network structure, optimize workload and maximize network bandwidth efficiency.
  • Support for New Microsoft Platforms
    Install antivirus applications and administration servers on Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (32- and 64-bit versions) with confidence, thanks to the extensive independent compatibility testing of Kaspersky Administration Kit.
A part of

Kaspersky Security Center replaces Kaspersky Administration Kit. Please view the Kaspersky Security Center page for details. Please note that Kaspersky Administration Kit will continue to manage all applications it was designed to support but will not manage Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows (supporting workstations and servers). The following applications will be managed by Kaspersky Administration Kit only:

  • Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 Enterprise Edition
  • Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
  • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.7 for Linux File Servers
  • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.6 for ISA Server 2000 Enterprise Edition

Centralized Threat Protection Management

  • Rich Integration Capabilities
    Strengthen corporate network security with full integration for Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP solutions. Kaspersky Administration Kit also fully supports SNMP and allows automation of protection management.
  • Support for Hierarchical Management
    Organize all the protected computers, devices and servers into hierarchical groups with support for task and policy inheritance and control of intermediate administrator privileges.
  • Mobile Platform Support (Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Smartphone)
    Manage security for corporate mobile devices running on the Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry platforms. System administrators can define common security policies for smartphones and control remote blocking or deletion of confidential data on lost or stolen devices.
  • User Transparency
    Protect user workstations, carry out deployment, uninstallation and maintenance work with no impact on users. Kaspersky Administration Kit even makes it possible to hide the presence of an antivirus product from users altogether.

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Advanced Continuity and Resilience

  • Virus Attack Auto Suppresser
    Mitigate a suspected virus outbreak on a protected server or workstation with automatic activation of pre-configured tasks if virus-like activity is detected.
  • Fast Update System
    Implement updates faster and easier than ever across your network with a reworked update system. Workstation and server protection applications allow fast application and update delivery through multiple distribution options, including IP Multicast.
  • Bandwidth Consumption Shaper
    Enforce scheduled data transfer rate limits between the Kaspersky Administration Server and your individual IP subnets and IP ranges so that during peak hours, business operations have bandwidth priority.

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Powerful Reporting System

Prepare and export a wide set of standard reporting templates for all kinds of threat protection activity and administrator actions. Reports can be scheduled or ad-hoc, and are equipped with rich capabilities for custom reports.

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Customer-Focused Technical Support

Kaspersky Lab provides global and local support expertise on a round-the-clock basis as standard. If you need more specific, regular or detailed support, our Business Support Program and Enterprise Support Program include five service categories:

  • Product improvement and innovation
  • Proactive and self-help services
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Problem resolution
  • Web-based training, interactive and non-interactive
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Complete List of Managed Products (Applies to Version CF2)

Kaspersky Administration Kit version CF2 enables management of the following threat protection products from Kaspersky Lab:

  • Mobile Device Protection:
    • Kaspersky Mobile Security 7.0 Enterprise Edition
    • New! Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Smartphone

  • Workstation Protection:
    • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations
    • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 SOS
    • Improved! Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Linux
    • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.7 for Linux Workstation
    • New! Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Mac

  • Server Protection:
    • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Servers
    • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Servers Enterprise Edition
    • Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
    • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.7 for Novell NetWare
    • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.7 for Linux File Servers

  • Internet Gateway Protection:
    • Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.6 for ISA Server 2000 Enterprise Edition

System Requirements for Kaspersky Administration Kit

Administration Server
Software requirements: Hardware requirements:
  • Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 or later or Windows DAC 6.0.
  • Database management system: Microsoft SQL Express 2005, Microsoft SQL Express 2008, Microsoft SQL Express 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or MySQL Enterprise.
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later; Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 or later; Microsoft Windows Server 2008; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 deployed in the Server Core mode; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 with installed Service Pack 1 and all current updates (for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 the Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5 should be installed); Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2; Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, deployed in the Server Core mode; Microsoft Windows XP Professional with installed Service Pack 2 or higher; Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 or later; Microsoft Windows Vista with installed Service Pack 1 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista x64 with installed Service Pack 1 and all current updates (for Microsoft Windows Vista x64 the Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5 should be installed); Microsoft Windows 7; Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011.
  • processor with operating frequency 1 GHz or higher
  • RAM size - 512 MB
  • 1 GB of available disk space

Administration Console
Software requirements: Hardware requirements:
  • Windows operating system.
    The supported version of the operating system is determined by the requirements for the Administration Server
  • Microsoft Management Console 2.0 or later
  • Work with Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Vista requires installed Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
  • Working with Microsoft Windows 7 required installed Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 or later
  • For 32-bit operating systems:
    • processor with operating frequency 1 GHz or higher
    • RAM size - 512 MB
    • 1 GB of available disk space
  • For 64-bit operating systems:
    • processor with operating frequency 1,4 GHz or higher
    • RAM size - 512 MB
    • 1GB of available disk space

Network Agent or Update Agent installed
Software requirements: Hardware requirements:
  • Operating system:
    • Windows.
      The supported version of the operating system is determined by the requirements for the Administration Server
    • Linux.
      The supported version of the operating system is determined by the requirements for respective workstation or server product
  • To work with 32-bit operating system you need:
    • processor with operating frequency 1 GHz or higher
    • RAM size - 512 MB
    • available disk space: 32 MB of the Network Agent, 500 MB for an Update Agent
    • additional requirements might be imposed by the respective workstation or server product
  • To work with 64-bit operating system you need:
    • processor with operating frequency 1,4 GHz or higher
    • RAM size - 512 MB
    • available disk space: 32 MB of the Network Agent, 500 MB for an Update Agent
    • additional requirements might be imposed by the respective workstation or server product
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