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- Kaspersky Next help
- What's new
- About Kaspersky Next
- Quick Start Guide
- Getting started with Kaspersky Next
- Kaspersky Next Management Console
- Initial setup of Kaspersky Next
- Interface of Kaspersky Next Management Console
- Deployment of security applications
- Upgrading Kaspersky Next
- Managing user accounts
- Managing devices
- Viewing the list of devices
- About device statuses
- Viewing the properties of a device
- Connecting devices running Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Renaming devices
- Assigning the owner of a device running Windows, macOS, or Linux
- Scenario: Creating, renewing, and uploading an APNs certificate
- Connecting mobile devices
- Sending commands to users' devices
- Deleting devices from the list of devices
- Starting and stopping anti-malware database updates and malware scans
- Updating the security application on devices running Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Managing device protection
- Managing security profiles
- About security profiles
- Viewing the list of security profiles
- Creating a security profile
- Editing a security profile
- Switching between security profile modes
- Assigning a security profile to a user or group of users
- Copying a security profile
- Exporting and importing security profiles
- Resetting a security profile
- Deleting a security profile
- Configuring device protection
- Configuring updates of anti-malware databases
- Configuring a malware scan
- Managing security profiles
- Endpoint Detection and Response
- About Endpoint Detection and Response
- About Indicators of Compromise
- Starting the use of Endpoint Detection and Response
- Scenario: Configuring and using Endpoint Detection and Response
- Configuring IoC scans for potential threats
- Configuring execution prevention
- Viewing information about Endpoint Detection and Response alerts
- Taking manual response measures
- Canceling network isolation of a Windows device
- Exporting information about Endpoint Detection and Response alerts
- Disabling Endpoint Detection and Response
- Root-Cause Analysis
- Adaptive Anomaly Control
- Data Discovery
- About Data Discovery
- Categories of information detected by Data Discovery
- Starting the use of Data Discovery
- Connecting a Microsoft 365 organization to your workspace
- Viewing information about Data Discovery detections
- Example of analyzing a Data Discovery detection
- Exporting information about Data Discovery detections
- Disabling Data Discovery
- Cloud Discovery
- About Cloud Discovery
- Starting the use of Cloud Discovery
- Enabling and disabling Cloud Discovery in security profiles
- Viewing information about the use of cloud services
- Risk level of a cloud service
- Blocking access to unwanted cloud services
- Enabling and disabling the monitoring of internet connections on Windows devices
- Vulnerability Assessment and Patch Management
- Encryption Management
- Performing typical tasks
- Reports on device protection
- List of reports on device protection
- Protection status report
- Threats report
- Status of anti-malware database updates report
- Network attacks report
- Vulnerabilities report
- Cloud Discovery reports
- Adaptive Anomaly Control reports
- Detections by Device Control component report
- Detections by Web Control component report
- Encryption status of devices report
- Kaspersky applications versions report
- Working with reports
- Configuring regular delivery of reports by email
- List of reports on device protection
- Viewing the event log and configuring event notifications
- Managing objects in Quarantine
- Kaspersky Security Network
- About Kaspersky Security Network
- Exchanging information with Kaspersky Security Network
- Enabling the use of Kaspersky Security Network in Kaspersky Next
- Accepting terms and conditions of a KSN Statement
- Declining terms and conditions of a KSN Statement
- Disabling the use of Kaspersky Security Network in Kaspersky Next
- Kaspersky Business Hub
- About Kaspersky Business Hub
- Managing the list of companies on Kaspersky Business Hub
- Viewing the list of companies on Kaspersky Business Hub
- Viewing aggregated protection statistics
- Adding a new company to Kaspersky Business Hub
- Adding another workspace for a company registered on Kaspersky Business Hub
- Editing company information
- Deleting the workspace of a company
- Canceling deletion of a company workspace
- Viewing news and sending feedback
- Managing the list of licenses on Kaspersky Business Hub
- Taking cybersecurity training
- Selecting the data centers used to store Kaspersky Next information
- Resetting your password
- Editing the settings of an account in Kaspersky Business Hub
- Quick Start Guide for Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
- Kaspersky Next licensing
- Contact Technical Support
- Sources of information about the application
- Glossary
- Account on Kaspersky Business Hub
- Administration Server
- Anti-malware databases
- Apple Push Notification service (APNs) certificate
- Background scan
- Certificate Signing Request
- Compliance control
- Device owner
- File Threat Protection
- Host Intrusion Prevention (Application Privilege Control)
- iOS MDM device
- iOS MDM Server
- Kaspersky Business Hub
- Kaspersky Next Management Console
- Kaspersky Security Network (KSN)
- Mail Threat Protection
- Malicious web addresses
- Malware
- Managed device
- Network Agent
- Network Threat Protection
- Patch
- Phishing
- Proxy server
- Quarantine
- Security application
- Security profile
- Supervised device
- Trusted device
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
- Trusted zone
- Update importance level
- User alias
- Vulnerability
- Vulnerability severity level
- Web Threat Protection
- Windows device name
- Workspace
- Information about third-party code
- Trademark notices
Kaspersky Next Management Console > Vulnerability Assessment and Patch Management > Patch Management > About Patch Management
About Patch Management
About Patch Management
Kaspersky Next allows you to manage updates for the applications installed on your users' devices running Windows, including
patches
that fix software Software update that fixes a vulnerability.
vulnerabilities
detected on the devices.
A flaw in an operating system or an application that may be exploited by malware makers to penetrate the operating system or application, and corrupt its integrity. The presence of a large number of vulnerabilities in an operating system makes it unreliable, because malware that penetrates the operating system may cause disruptions in the operating system itself and in installed applications.
This feature is available only if you activated Kaspersky Next under a Kaspersky Next EDR Optimum or XDR Expert license.
Updates functionality (including providing anti-malware signature updates and codebase updates), as well as KSN functionality may not be available in the software in the U.S.
Kaspersky Next starts searching for applicable updates only after you define a vulnerability detection schedule.
You can view the list of detected updates and configure update installation.
You can approve updates that must be installed and skip updates that must not be installed. You can also revoke an update approval, for example, if the update installation resulted in application malfunction.
If an update for an application cannot be installed because this application is currently running, the device user is prompted to close the software. Further actions depend on the user response:
- If the user closes the application, the update installation continues.
- If the user skips the prompt, the update installation continues as well, but the device may require restart.
- If the user cancels the prompt, the update installation fails and will be re-attempted during the next scheduled start.
Article ID: 153116, Last review: Sep 4, 2025