Kaspersky Endpoint Security 12 for Windows

Protection of shared folders against external encryption

25 April 2024

ID 151229

The component monitors operations performed only with those files that are stored on mass storage devices with the NTFS file system and that are not encrypted with EFS.

Protection of shared folders against external encryption provides for analysis of activity in shared folders. If this activity matches a behavior stream signature that is typical for external encryption, Kaspersky Endpoint Security performs the selected action.

By default, protection of shared folders against external encryption is disabled.

After Kaspersky Endpoint Security is installed, the protection of shared folders against external encryption will be limited until the computer is restarted.

In this section

Enabling and disabling protection of shared folders against external encryption

Selecting the action to take on detection of external encryption of shared folders

Creating an exclusion for protection of shared folders against external encryption

Configuring addresses of exclusions from protection of shared folders against external encryption

Exporting and importing a list of exclusions from protection of shared folders against external encryption

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