Kaspersky Security For Windows Server
Juan Navarro
Kaspersky Security for Windows Server was developed specifically to protect complex networks and ensure that valuable corporate resources are efficiently secured. With prompt threat detection and response and exceptional resilience, together with launch control and exploit prevention against emerging threats, it delivers advanced server protection to businesses of all sizes.
Based on Kaspersky Lab's unique HuMachine framework, Kaspersky Security for Windows Server's multi-layered threat protection system detects all types of malware, including advanced, sophisticated and emerging threats. Despite its power, it has minimal impact on server performance and provides different optimization capabilities depending on server role (for example, by configuring application priority or excluding business-critical trusted processes from scanning).
Kaspersky Security for Windows Server comprises a powerful Exploit Prevention mechanism that protects process memory from exploits. It watches over protected processes and prevents attempts to exploit unpatched or even zero-day vulnerabilities in system components and applications.
The most reliable resilience against data breaches is attained by implementing the Default Deny scenario using Application Launch Control. By prohibiting the use of any application other than trusted system components and specified programs or services, most malware types are automatically blocked from starting. Together with Device Control running in Default Deny mode ruling out the use of any unsolicited storage, these components considerably reduce the attack surface and boost the security of the server protected by Kaspersky Lab.
Making sure critical system components and processes (as well as mission-critical applications) remain intact is as important for the server's smooth functioning as for the security of the sensitive data processed on it.
Kaspersky Security for Windows Server takes care of this, providing features such as File Integrity Monitor and Log Inspection which help to not only prevent unwanted changes to the system but also to detect certain indicators of a security breach and complying with a number of regulations such as PCI/DSS.
The rapid spread of Docker-based container virtualization requires specific protection, taking into account containers using the same kernel as other server processes. Kaspersky Security for Windows Servers secures Windows Server containers, making sure that compromised containers you may encounter won't harm your business
This new system delivers traffic malware filtering, web links verification and web-resource control, based on Kaspersky categories for any external system supporting the ICAP protocol like proxy servers, storage or any other ICAP-supporting system.
Kaspersky Security for Windows Servers supports a wide range of storage systems from the most prominent vendors, including Hitachi, EMC, IBM, Dell, Oracle and NetApp. It supports both on-access scanning (when a launched file is modified) and on-demand scanning (either by request or scheduled). For NetApp Storage, unique Anti-Cryptor functionality is available. This technology secures data on NAS shares from ransomware and blocks any attempt to encrypt data on storage from any connected host machine with running crypto-malware.
Kaspersky Lab products were one of the first to offer dedicated protection of endpoints from encrypting ransomware. Servers are rarely attacked directly, but with cryptors now becoming a pandemic, they regularly suffer from remotely initiated encryption of the data stored on file shares.
Kaspersky Security for Windows Servers contains a unique anti-cryptor mechanism capable of blocking encryption of files on shared resources from a malicious process running on another machine on the same network. This system constantly watches over the protected shared folders, tracking the state of the stored files. As soon as encryption activity is detected, the system blocks the attack source machine from accessing the server, stopping the encryption process and preventing the loss of corporate data. This functionality is available for Windows and NetApp storage systems.
Notifications can be sent to administrators via messaging service or email. Kaspersky Security for Windows Server is integrated with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and can operate with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Alternatively, monitor operations by reviewing Microsoft Windows or Kaspersky Security Center event logs.
Kaspersky Security for Windows Server provides integration capabilities for different SIEM systems. The application can convert events in application logs into formats supported by the syslog server so that those events can be recognized and imported into a SIEM. The application supports conversion into structured data format and into JSON format.
To improve the convenience of server security management, Kaspersky Security for Windows Servers allows the configuration of the local Windows firewalls of your servers directly from the unified console of Kaspersky Security Center.
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Trying to set up Kaspersky server on win server 2019 machine. Everything went ok, until I found that server's network had a Private type. After changing it back to domain, KSC became unaccessible from every PC in network, though all ports are opened for domain network too. Local kaspersky for winserver is visible in the console, port is listened but seems to be closed somewhere:
There's a Mikrotik router in network. I tried to telnet 192.168.0.100 13000 on both network machine and Mikrotik terminal, both returned connection failure on this port. Other services such as rdp or smb are continue to working. Firewall log doesn't tell anything about 13000 port drops, nmap tells port is filtered. Where is the **** problem?
If you would like file system protections, as well as a software firewall, and network attack prevention, as well as the Anti Cryptor behavioral feature, you would go with the KES 11 product (Note that not all protections listed in the policy are possible to enable on server OSes due to the lack of device drivers)
I asked Kaspersky support this last year and they recommend that I run Kaspersky Security for Windows Servers on all of my servers and run Kaspersky Endpoint Security on my workstations. The two products offer different features that are specific to the needs of their environments.
So if the virtualized Windows server is located in your DC (and you have access to the infrastructure), the recommended application to use would be KSV Light Agent. If the virtualized Windows server is located in a public cloud, the application you would use would be KS for Windows Server.
There are two tiers of KHCS - Standard and Enterprise. The Enterprise gives you additional security such as File Integrity Monitoring (which together with Application Control in default deny mode really locks down the protected machine) and log inspection.
Sorry for any confusion. As I mention in my previous comments, when asked by customers, my opinion is that it depends on your needs - the features for each are different and it depends on what you want to do.
I suspect the reason that KES 10 was suggested for servers was put there initially to offer that as another option for customers that wanted one product for ALL machines in their environment. (Andrey may have more information on this)
I have two servers, the first one is windows server 2016, and the second is windows server 2019 with Kaspersky security center 12 installed.both servers won't start up the automatic startup services by itself, after restart or after a while of starting the services manually, it stops them.I've tried to reinstall windows, SFC/scan, install all windows updates, change the startup to delayed, nothing worksWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
You may have antivirus software installed and running on a Hyper-V host. For optimal operation of Hyper-V and the running virtual machines, you should configure several exclusions and options. These configurations will help avoid issues, such as those that are described in the following article:
This article contains information that shows how to help lower security settings or how to turn off security features on a computer. You can make these changes to work around a specific problem. These specific configuration changes should be made only on the following systems:
If you are using Windows Defender as an anti-malware solution on your server, you may not need to configure additional exclusions. For a list of Windows Defender automatic exclusions, see List of automatic exclusions.
This report from Kaspersky Lab summarizes the attacks and probes received by the Smallpot network during 2006. In our previous report covering the first half of 2006, we observed a notable increase in the number of attacks originating in US. Most of these were designed for financial gain, exploiting known vulnerabilities to infect machines with spambots and Trojan proxy servers.
On the other hand, the number of probes attempting to find MSSQL servers has risen 4 positions, increasing by no less than 12% up. There are a few explanations for this phenomenon. First, bots from the infamous Rbot and Agobot families are so complex that they include exploits for almost every vulnerability that has a good chance of getting exploited in the wild. Additionally, the advent of open source bots has resulted in lots of new families which also have the same exploits packed into them. They differ little from the named bots mentioned above. Finally, there are more and more web-oriented applications which make use of large databases, and despite LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) being the favorite platform, MSSQL is also becoming an ever more popular target. Of course, many of these installations are patched to the most recent versions. However, a weak SA password can be exploited no matter the server version.
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