Kaspersky Endpoint Security 12.9 for Windows

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Update 12.9

Kaspersky Endpoint Security 12.9 for Windows offers the following features and improvements:

  1. The new functionality for managing temporary passwords has been added. Temporary password allows you to provide access to Kaspersky Endpoint Security with Password Protection enabled for a separate computer. Management of temporary passwords allows to save password history (up to 30 days), monitor temporary password status (Active, Expired, Revoked) and revoke temporary passwords.
  2. The option to terminate connection to web resources prohibited by Web Control rules immediately after the policy is applied has been added. In previous versions of the application, Web Control restricted only new connections to prohibited web resources.
  3. For Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform users, an option to run YARA check locally on the computer has been added. To do this, you need to download a file with YARA rules and execute the command in CMD.
  4. Fixed the behavior of the application when BitLocker is enabled on computers on which drives are already protected by BitLocker using third-party tools. Kaspersky Endpoint Security initiates the recovery procedure to send the recovery key to Kaspersky Security Center. Thus, BitLocker management is transferred to the Kaspersky Security Center console.
  5. A new section, Response history, is available to users of Detection and Response solutions by Kaspersky. This section contains information about threat response actions performed on the computer. Such actions include, for example, running the Terminate process task or isolating the computer from the network. Response history is only available to users of the following Kaspersky solutions: MDR, EDR, KATA.
  6. For Kaspersky Unified Monitoring and Analysis Platform users, the support for EDR threat response actions is now available. When responding to threats, KUMA runs scripts that create corresponding EDR tasks. To perform EDR tasks, you need to create a response rule for the custom script in the KUMA console and select events.
  7. When developing this version of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows, we incorporated the changes included in the following private patches: PF10360, PF10362, PF10363, PF12120, PF12121, PF12122, PF13115, PF13118, PF13119, PF14061, PF14062, PF14064, PF14065, PF15054, PF15056, PF15058, PF16052, PF16053, PF16055, PF16056, PF17027, PF17029, PF17039, PF17041, PF17043, PF18010, PF18011, PF18014, PF18015, PF18020, PF18021, PF18022, PF18023, PF18024, PF18028, PF19003, PF19016, PF19018, PF19017, PF19032, PF19034, PF19036, PF19037, PF19041, PF20011, PF20016, PF20017, PF20020, PF20021.

Update 12.8

Kaspersky Endpoint Security 12.8 for Windows offers the following features and improvements:

  1. The application now supports the Light Agent mode for protecting virtual environments. Now you can deploy the application as Light Agent as part of the Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent 6.2 solution.
  2. Interception of file operations in Docker containers on servers is now supported. A container is an isolated environment in which an application can run without directly interacting with the operating system. Kaspersky Endpoint Security scans the files inside containers to which the user gains access. When a threat is detected, the applications blocks this malicious activity and attempts to disinfect the file inside the container. If the file cannot be disinfected, the application stops the container.
  3. Now you can define a protection scope for the protection of shared folders against external encryption (Behavior Detection component). Now you can specify shared folders which the application must monitor for file activity. You can also exclude files from the protection scope. In previous versions of the application, the Behavior Detection component monitored all shared folders for file activity.
  4. Now you can configure different sets of components for different types of operating systems in the installation package. Now you can deploy the application to workstations and servers using the same installation package. Components that are not available for a certain operating system type are automatically excluded in installation package properties.
  5. The option to select predefined scan exclusions and trusted applications has been added. Predefined scan exclusions and trusted applications allow quickly configuring the trusted zone for the application in a virtual environment (Citrix, VMware). Such exclusions comprise, for example, VHD and VHDX virtual machine files. Exclusions can be added when creating an application installation package, creating a policy, or when installing Kaspersky Endpoint Security.
  6. The EDR telemetry now includes events for operations with USB-connected devices. You can also add these events to exclusions from EDR telemetry.
  7. The option to block network connections over the obsolete TLS 1.0 protocol has been added. TLS 1.0 has a low security level, so it is recommended to disable this protocol and use newer TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3 versions. By default, Kaspersky Endpoint Security blocks TLS 1.0 connections. After updating the application version, the operation of third-party services that use the TLS 1.0 protocol may fail. To avoid problems in the operation of third-party services, you can allow the use of the TLS 1.0 protocol in group policy before updating the application version.
  8. When developing this version of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows, we incorporated the changes included in the following private patches: PF10053, PF10054, PF10360, PF10362, PF10363, PF12120, PF12121, PF12122, PF13115, PF13118, PF13119, PF14061, PF14062, PF14064, PF14065, PF15054, PF15056, PF15058, PF16052, PF16053, PF16055, PF16056, PF17027, PF17029, PF17039, PF17041, PF17043, PF18010, PF18011, PF18014, PF18015, PF18020, PF18021, PF18022, PF18023, PF18024, PF18028, PF19003, PF19016, PF19018.

Update 12.7

Kaspersky Endpoint Security 12.7 for Windows offers the following features and improvements:

  1. Now you can limit CPU resource usage for Malware Scan tasks. To do so, in application settings, specify the maximum CPU load percentage for all cores that can be utilized while scanning the computer.
  2. Now you can manually send files for scanning in KATA Sandbox. KATA Sandbox is a component of Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform that runs files on virtual images of operating systems. Sandbox analyzes object behavior to detect malicious activity and activity characteristic of targeted attacks on the IT infrastructure of the organization. Sandbox analyzes and scans objects on special servers with deployed virtual images of Microsoft Windows operating systems (the Sandbox servers). To send a file for scanning to KATA Sandbox, select the relevant command in the context menu of the file.
  3. Now you can set up integration with the solution that protects the corporate LAN, Kaspersky Network Detection and Response. Kaspersky Network Detection and Response (NDR) is part of Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform. You can configure the interaction with NDR in standard mode as well as in the EDR Agent mode.
  4. Support for Microsoft Office Outlook email client version 2021 has been added to the Mail Threat Protection extension. The extension allows scanning messages at the level of a mail client instead of the protocol level. In addition to messages, the extension lets you scan objects received through the MAPI interface from Microsoft Exchange repositories (for example, objects in the Calendar). This scanning takes place in the mail client.
  5. When developing this version of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows, we incorporated the changes included in the following private patches: PF10049, PF10355, PF12114, PF13109, PF14056, PF15038, PF15045, PF16037, PF16042, PF16047, PF17014, PF17018, PF17021, PF17024, PF18006, PF18007.

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