Participating in Kaspersky Security Network

To enhance the protection of virtual machines, Kaspersky Security can use data received from Kaspersky Lab users all over the world. Kaspersky Security Network is designed to collect such data.

Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) is an infrastructure of cloud services providing access to Kaspersky Lab's online knowledge base with information about the reputation of files, web resources, and software. Data from Kaspersky Security Network ensures faster response by Kaspersky Security to unknown threats, improves the performance of some protection components, and reduces the risk of false positive.

If you are participating in Kaspersky Security Network, KSN services provide Kaspersky Security with information about the category and reputation of scanned files.

The following types of KSN are differentiated depending on the location of the infrastructure:

• Global KSN. This infrastructure is hosted by Kaspersky Lab servers.
• Private KSN. This infrastructure is hosted by third-party servers of the service provider, for example, on the Internet service provider's network.

Information about the type of KSN used by Kaspersky Security is displayed in the policy properties.

You can configure the use of Global KSN in the policy properties.

Use of Private KSN can be configured in the properties of the Administration Server of Kaspersky Security Center in the KSN proxy server section. Please see the Kaspersky Security Center documentation for details.

The interaction between the KSN infrastructure and SVMs managed by Kaspersky Security Center is provided by the KSN Proxy service. KSN Proxy is configured in the properties of Kaspersky Security Center Administration Server.

If the KSN Proxy service is disabled in Kaspersky Security Center, no data is exchanged between SVMs and Kaspersky Security Network. If use of KSN is nonetheless enabled in the Kaspersky Security policy, this could reduce the performance of Kaspersky Security. It is recommended to disable the use of KSN in the Kaspersky Security policy if the KSN Proxy service is disabled in Kaspersky Security Center.

For details on the KSN Proxy service, see the Kaspersky Security Center documentation.

Kaspersky Security automatically sends Kaspersky Lab information about the use of KSN, and may send other information depending on the KSN mode you selected (standard KSN or extended KSN). The KSN mode affects the amount of data that is transmitted to Kaspersky Lab when KSN is being used.

Your participation in Kaspersky Security Network when using extended KSN helps Kaspersky Lab promptly gather information about the types and sources of new threats and develop solutions for neutralizing them.

Participation in Kaspersky Security Network is voluntary. The decision to participate in Kaspersky Security Network is made during the creation of a Kaspersky Security policy, and this decision can be changed at any time.