Kaspersky Lab has introduced a new generation of business security solutions, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business (KESB), that it says will help businesses overcome the latest security threats and challenges in managing a secure network.
The company says KESB has been built to provide protection from advanced malware and cyber crime, and also to combat another common enemy of IT security - complexity.
CEO, chairman and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, says the company has entered the age of high-profile targeted attacks, with sophisticated espionage tools becoming more and more widespread.
"Cyber espionage is becoming the most serious threat there is for businesses, and just about any enterprise can be attacked, regardless of its size or market share. All organisations have data that's valuable to cyber criminals, which in turn can be used as 'back stairs' to reach other companies. An intrusion may come either from a cyber criminal seeking personal enrichment, or a nation state looking to steal proprietary or classified information. Every decision-maker should keep all this in mind when building a company's IT security infrastructure."
New realities
IT departments face new challenges and complexities these days. Over and above sophisticated malware targeting businesses on a daily basis, the BYOD (bring your own device) phenomenon - where smartphones and tablets are used to access the company network from anywhere in the world - pose new risks.
Confidential data now moves freely within the company network, or outside of the network via laptops or USB thumb drives.
Vasily Dyagilev, MD of Kaspersky Lab Emerging Markets, says these and other issues see IT departments struggling with related security concerns, and in most cases, they are forced to evaluate, purchase, install and manage a new tool for each scenario.
These include mobile device management, systems/patch management, data encryption and more - these new tools get cobbled together with existing anti-malware technologies, leaving a network that's more complex to manage, but not necessarily more secure.
Alongside BYOD, challenges of organised cyber crime have made protecting business data tougher than ever. Built from the ground up, Dyagilev says KESB features some new technologies for more comprehensive visibility, control and protection of the network.
The solution covers mobile security and device management, data encryption, endpoint control tools and systems management, all of which are managed from Kaspersky Lab's Security Center - an administrative console that unifies all aspects of Kaspersky Lab's endpoint, file server and virtual infrastructure protection.
Dyagilev says a company's network must allow its workers to be more productive; it must be stable enough to never fail, and at the same time, agile enough to incorporate the newest technologies and devices. It must also operate within the budget constraints of management.
"While these goals are consistent across all business types, no two organisations are the same. Therefore, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business was also built with the SME in mind, offering premium protection technologies without the need for new budgets or manpower resources to manage them."
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