Quick start wizard

This section provides information about the Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console quick start wizard.

About quick start wizard

The quick start wizard in Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console enables you to create a minimum of necessary tasks and policies, adjust a minimum of settings, and start creating installation packages of Kaspersky applications. Using the wizard, you can make the following changes to Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console:

• Initiate downloading of installation packages for managed Kaspersky applications.
• Create a Network Agent stand-alone installation package for devices running Windows, Linux, or macOS.
• Create Kaspersky Security Center Network Agent policy.
• Create the Download updates to the repositories of distribution points task.
• Create policies and tasks for managed Kaspersky applications.
• Configure interaction with
  Kaspersky Security Network (KSN)

  An infrastructure of cloud services that provides access to the Kaspersky database with constantly updated information about the reputation of files, web resources, and software. Kaspersky Security Network ensures faster responses by Kaspersky applications to threats, improves the performance of some protection components, and reduces the likelihood of false positives.

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After the quick start wizard has finished, installation packages for Network Agent and managed Kaspersky applications appear in the Discovery & deployment → Deployment & assignment → Installation packages list.

The quick start wizard creates policies for managed applications, such as Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows, unless such policies are created for the Managed devices group. The quick start wizard creates tasks if tasks with the same names do not exist for the Managed devices group.

Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console automatically prompts you to run the quick start wizard after you have created a company workspace and have started Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console for the first time. You can also start the quick start wizard manually at any time.

Starting quick start wizard

Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console automatically prompts you to run the quick start wizard after you have created a company workspace and have started Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console for the first time. You can also start the quick start wizard manually at any time.

If you start the quick start wizard again, tasks and policies created at the previous run of the wizard are not created again.

To start the quick start wizard manually:

1. In the main menu, click the settings icon () next to the name of the Administration Server.

   The Administration Server properties window opens.

2. On the General tab, select the General section.
3. Click Start quick start wizard.

Alternatively, you can start the quick start wizard by selecting Discovery & deployment → Deployment & assignment → Quick start wizard.

The wizard prompts you to perform initial configuration of Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console. Follow the instructions of the wizard. Proceed through the wizard by using the Next button. Use the Back button to return to the previous step of the wizard.

Step 1. Selecting installation packages to download

In the list, select the Kaspersky applications to install on the client devices. Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console will create installation packages for the selected applications. Afterwards, you will use the created installation packages to install the applications.

When selecting an installation package to download, pay attention to the language: installation packages are available in different languages.

Select the following applications:

• Kaspersky Security Center Network Agent

  When selecting Network Agent installation packages, consider the following:

  • Network Agent must be installed on every client device. Therefore, select a Network Agent appropriate for each operating system running on the client devices.
  • Network Agent must be installed manually through a stand-alone installation package on a device that you select to act as a distribution point. Distribution points are required to perform network polling and remote installation of Kaspersky security applications on client devices. Therefore, you must select at least one installation package of Network Agent. While you proceed to the next steps of the wizard, Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console creates the Network Agent stand-alone installation package.

    Compared to Windows-based distribution points, Linux-based and macOS-based distribution points have limited functionality. It is strongly recommended that you select Windows-based computers to act as distribution points.

    You can select Network Agents for Windows, Linux, and macOS. If you select Network Agent only for one operating system, for example, macOS, then a stand-alone installation package will be created for the selected operating system. If you select Network Agent for several operating systems, Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console creates only one stand-alone installation package according to the following priorities: Windows is of the highest priority, then Linux, and then macOS. For example, if you select Network Agents for Linux and macOS, then Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console creates a stand-alone installation package for Network Agent for Linux. You can create a Network Agent stand-alone installation package for any of these operating systems manually at any time.

• Kaspersky security applications

  Select installation packages appropriate for the operating systems that are installed on client devices in your organization.

Step 2. Configuring a proxy server

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If your organization uses a proxy server to connect to the internet, specify the proxy server settings at this step of the wizard. These settings are added to the Network Agent installation package. After installation, Network Agent automatically uses these settings on each client device.

Specify the following settings for proxy server connection:

• Use proxy server
• Address
• Port number
• Proxy server authentication

  If this option is enabled, in the entry fields you can specify the credentials for proxy server authentication.

  We recommend that you specify the credentials of an account that has minimum privileges required only for the proxy server authentication.

  By default, this option is disabled.

• User name

  User name of the account under which connection to the proxy server is established.

  We recommend that you specify the credentials of an account that has minimum privileges required only for the proxy server authentication.

• Password

  Password of the account under which connection to the proxy server is established.

  We recommend that you specify the credentials of an account that has minimum privileges required only for the proxy server authentication.

Step 3. Configuring Kaspersky Security Network

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If at the first step of the wizard you downloaded the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows installation package, the text of the KSN Statement for the following applications is displayed:

• Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows
• Kaspersky Security Center installed on local devices
• Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console installed in the cloud environment

If you did not download the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows installation package, the KSN Statement for this application is not displayed.

In trial mode, only the KSN Statement for Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows is displayed.

Carefully read the Kaspersky Security Network Statement. Select one of the following options:

• I agree to use Kaspersky Security Network

  Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console and managed applications installed on client devices will automatically transfer their operation details to Kaspersky Security Network. Participation in Kaspersky Security Network ensures faster updates of databases containing information about viruses and other threats, which ensures a faster response to emergent security threats.

• I do not agree to use Kaspersky Security Network

  Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console and managed applications will provide no information to Kaspersky Security Network.

  If you select this option, the use of Kaspersky Security Network will be disabled.

By default, the use of KSN is disabled. Later, if you change your mind about using KSN, you can enable (or disable) the corresponding option in the Administration Server properties window, in the KSN Settings section.

Step 4. Configuring third-party update management

This step is not displayed if the Find vulnerabilities and required updates task already exists.

If you want to get a list of updates for the applications installed on the managed devices and a list of found vulnerabilities and recommended fixes for them, enable the Search for third-party software updates and vulnerability fixes option. If this option is enabled, Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console creates the Find vulnerabilities and required updates task.

Step 5. Creating a basic network protection configuration

At this step of the wizard, click the Create button to create objects required for initial protection of your client devices.

Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console performs two operations:

• Creating basic policies and tasks with default settings

  The following policies are created:

  • Kaspersky Security Center Network Agent policy
  • Policies for managed Kaspersky applications

  The following tasks are created:

  • The Download updates to the repositories of distribution points task
  • The Find vulnerabilities and required updates task

    This task is only created if you enabled the Search for third-party software updates and vulnerability fixes option on the previous step of the wizard.

  • Tasks for managed Kaspersky applications
• Creating a stand-alone installation package for Network Agent

  You will use this package to install Network Agent on distribution points. Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console creates the stand-alone installation package on the basis of the Network Agent installation package that you selected at the previous step of the wizard. During the package creation, you must read and accept the terms of EULA for Network Agent. When the stand-alone installation package is created, you will be prompted to download it to the device you are using at the moment.

  Network Agent stand-alone installation package creation can take some time. You can proceed to the next step of the wizard. The process will continue in background mode. You can track the process on the In progress () tab of the Installation packages section (Discovery & deployment → Deployment & assignment → Installation packages).

  For authentication reasons, each stand-alone installation package is signed by using a certificate. The certificate is reissued from time to time. After each procedure of certificate reissue, Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console automatically updates the signatures of all created stand-alone installation packages. For downloaded stand-alone installation packages, an automatic signature update cannot be performed. Therefore, the certificate expires and a certificate error might occur while you install an application from a stand-alone installation package. In this case, download the stand-alone installation package again.

Step 6. Closing the quick start wizard

On the quick start wizard completion page, read about the additional operations you must perform in order to deploy Kaspersky security applications on the client devices. Follow the stages provided in the scenario of Kaspersky applications initial deployment.