Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack (KATA) Platform

Managing tasks

8 November 2023

ID 247672

In the web interface of the application, users with the Senior security officer role can manage files and applications on hosts by creating and removing tasks.

In distributed solution and multitenancy mode, Kill process, Get forensics, Get registry key, Start YARA scan, Service management, Run application, Delete file, Restore file from quarantine, Quarantine file tasks can have one of the following types:

  • Global—Created on the PCN server. These tasks apply to hosts that are connected to this PCN server and to all SCN servers that are connected to this PCN server. Tasks belong to the tenant for which the user is managing the program using the web interface.
  • Local—Created on the SCN server. These tasks apply only to hosts that are connected to this SCN server. Tasks belong to the tenant for which the user is managing the program using the web interface.

Get file, Get process memory dump, Get NTFS metafiles, Get disk image, Get memory dump tasks run only on the specified host, regardless of the application operating mode.

The maximum task execution time is 24 hours. If the task did not complete in this time, execution is paused.

Users with the Senior security officer role can manage all tasks for tenants to whose data they have access.

Users with the Security officer role do not have access to tasks.

Users with the Security auditor role can view the task table and information about the selected task.

In this section

Viewing the task table

Viewing information about a task

Creating a get file task

Creating a forensic collection task

Creating a registry key retrieval task

Creating an NTFS metafile retrieval task

Creating a process memory dump retrieval task

Creating a disk image retrieval task

Creating a RAM dump retrieval task

Creating a process termination task

Creating a task to scan hosts using YARA rules

Creating a service management task

Creating an application execution task

Creating a file deletion task

Creating a file quarantine task

Creating a quarantined file recovery task

Creating a copy of a task

Deleting tasks

Filtering tasks by creation time

Filtering tasks by type

Filtering tasks by name

Filtering tasks by file name and path

Filtering tasks by description

Filtering tasks by server name

Filtering tasks based on the name of the user that created the task

Filtering tasks by processing status

Clearing a task filter

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