Reducing risky online actions of employees is a challenge for 50% of businesses

Whether it’s by chance or by design, employees can put corporate networks and sensitive data at risk. Businesses can combat this human risk element by not only educating staff and implementing strict security policies, but supplementing endpoint protection with a solid first line of defense.

Kaspersky Web Traffic Security adds this risk-mitigation layer, by stopping threats at the point when they attempt to penetrate the network and before they even reach employee endpoints. Kaspersky Web Traffic Security has a powerful multi-layered ML-based anti-malware engine. Besides, with a renewed anti-phishing engine, featuring deep learning-based technologies at its core, the application helps reduce the hazards associated with dangerous actions - like clicking on phishing links - as well as potentially harmful activities, such as opening untrusted web pages.

In addition, by filtering ingoing and outgoing content, the application reduces the risk of infection and data leakage, for example, prevents corporate data being uploaded to public clouds. The web control feature of the application also helps manage which categories of web resources employees are permitted to visit.

For even better detection rate, Kaspersky Web Traffic Security uses global threat intelligence from the cloud – including reputation data about files, URLs and IP addresses from Kaspersky Security Network and unique data acquired during expert research.

“Social engineering is one of the key techniques attackers use to penetrate a business perimeter. Kaspersky Web Traffic Security is designed to not only reduce this risk, but also to relieve the pressures IT support staff are facing. The application endeavors to boost business defenses, providing a proven Next Generation cybersecurity engine, with arguably the lowest false positive rates and highest detection rates in the industry - governing internet use via a single application point,” comments David Emm, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab.

Besides superior protection, Kaspersky Web Traffic Security provides businesses with enhanced management capabilities, such as:

• A graphic user interface, used for event-centric gateway security management and monitoring;
• SIEM integration to add gateway security context to the infrastructure-wide picture of security events;
• Multi-node management allowing to tackle heavier loads and easily work with distributed infrastructures.
• Special multitenancy mode for MSPs and diversified companies, which allows them to assign dedicated workspaces for different customers or projects/offices and manage them separately;
• Role-based access control allowing the management of access levels for security administrators who have different responsibilities.

Kaspersky Web Traffic Security is a part of Kaspersky Internet Gateway Security. More information about the application can be found here.

¹ The data from global Kaspersky Security Network

² Kaspersky ITSRS: Q24a. Statements about the challenges of raising IT security expertise in your organization: the biggest weakness in our IT security strategy is the careless actions of our employees/users