Kaspersky Administration Kit

Kaspersky Administration Kit

A part of

Kaspersky Business Space Security
Kaspersky Enterprise Space Security
Kaspersky Total Space Security
Kaspersky Business Space Security
Kaspersky Work Space Security
Kaspersky Security for Mail Server
Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway
Kaspersky Work Space Security
Kaspersky Enterprise Space Security

Kaspersky Administration Kit is used to organize and monitor centralized protection of the entire corporate network, consolidating different protection layers into an integrated system – from Windows and Linux workstations and servers and mobile devices on the Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms to mail servers and Internet gateways.

The product meets the needs of any company, from small businesses where antivirus protection is installed and configured by outside contractors to large corporate networks with tens of thousands of computers and a distributed administration structure.

With over 50 new and improved features, Kaspersky Administration Kit 8.0 helps to improve employee productivity. The product reduces the total cost of ownership for Kaspersky Lab products and makes protection more efficient.

New & Improved Features

Improved efficiency: New automation tools covering a range of tasks, from close integration with company infrastructure and the automatic generation of installation packages to the removal or installation of third-party applications on remote computers, significantly enhance the efficiency of antivirus protection. System status information is much more accessible thanks to dashboards that update in real time. Device control. Kaspersky Administration Kit 8.0 can be used to define a control policy for peripheral devices connected via USB ports on computers with Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations 6.0 Release 2.

Selection of installation mode: The application supports two installation modes: standard or user-defined. Depending on the company’s needs as well as the qualifications and responsibilities of its IT staff, important features and elements of the administration console interface can be added to a standard installation, including server hierarchy, differentiation of system administrators’ rights, application register and network access control.

Support for new Microsoft platforms: Antivirus applications and administration servers can be installed on Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (32 and 64 bit versions). Kaspersky Administration Kit 8.0 has undergone independent compatibility testing.

Transparent to the user: The system administrator can perform all system deployment and maintenance work remotely without interrupting employees’ work: installation, setup and operation of antivirus applications on workstations are virtually transparent to users. It is now possible to hide the presence of an antivirus product from the user altogether. Other new features include a centralized list of installed applications and support for uninstalling applications in the background.

Mobile platform support (Kaspersky Mobile Security Enterprise Edition): Kaspersky Administration Kit can be used to manage security products for mobile platforms (Windows Mobile and Symbian). System administrators can define common security policies for smartphones as well as control device status in various situations (remote blocking or deletion of confidential data on a lost or stolen device and notification of the new number if the SIM is changed).

Automatic updating of antivirus databases and program modules: Kaspersky Administration Kit reduces Internet traffic by performing centralized updates. The administration server downloads available updates for selected applications on a regular basis and can automatically distribute them to all the computers it manages, regardless of network configuration.

System Requirements
Administration Server (Service Only)
Operating systems: Hardware requirements:
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server / Workstation 4.0 SP 6a and higher
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Professional SP1 and higher
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1 and higher
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64
  • Microsoft Windows Vista
  • Microsoft Windows 7
  • Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or faster
  • At least 128 MB of available RAM
  • At least 400 MB available HDD space
Database Server:
(can be installed on another computer)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express edition
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP 3 and above
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) SP 3 and above (the MSDE 2000 SP3 distributive is in the distributive set of Kaspersky Administration Kit and can be installed directly from a CD of Kaspersky Administration Kit)
  • MySQL Enterprise 5.0.32, 5.0.34, 5.0.36
  • MySQL Community Server 5.0.33
    • Other:

    Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version 2.8 and above (should be installed on the Administration Server)

    Microsoft Management Console 1.2 and above

    Administration Console
    Operating systems: Hardware requirements:
    • Microsoft Windows NT Server / Workstation 4.0 SP 6a and higher
    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Professional SP1 and higher
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1 and higher
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64
    • Microsoft Windows Vista
    • Microsoft Windows 7

    Microsoft Management Console 1.2 and above
    • Intel Pentium III 400 MHz or faster
    • At least 64 MB of available RAM
    • At least 12 MB available HDD space
    Network Agent (for Windows systems)
    Operating systems: Hardware requirements:
    • Microsoft Windows NT Server / Workstation 4.0 SP 6a and higher
    • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Professional SP1 and higher
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1 and higher
    • Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64
    • Microsoft Windows Vista
    • Microsoft Windows 7
    • Intel Pentium 233 MHz or faster
    • At least 32 MB RAM
    • At least 10 MB available HDD space
    for NetWare-server
    Operating systems: Hardware requirements:
    • Novell NetWare 6 SP3 and above
    • Novell NetWare 6.5 SP3 and above
    • Intel Pentium 233 MHz or faster
    • At least 32 MB of available RAM
    • At least 10 MB available HDD space