Kaspersky introduces new cloud edition of Hosted Security

Grazed from Computer Business Review.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Kaspersky Lab is inroducing a new edition of Kaspersky Hosted Security, its cloud-based security for web and email, to help channel partners support smaller firms in addressing the security implications of trends such as consumerisation, the increased use of mobile devices and social media, cloud computing and virtualisation.

Kaspersky Hosted Security doesn’t require any investments in IT infrastructure or equipment, no specialist security skills and can be easily scaled up or down to meet changing business needs…

For channel partners the upgraded Kaspersky Hosted Security represents a cost-effective offering with a strong business case that is easy to sell, configure and support.

With a service level agreement guaranteed by Kaspersky Lab, Hosted Security provides a low-risk platform for added-value services and consultancy such as additional gateway, server and endpoint protection.

Kaspersky Hosted Security comprises two modules: Kaspersky Hosted Email Security and Kaspersky Hosted Web Security.

Kaspersky Hosted Email Security protects businesses against email-borne malware, spam and phishing emails by blocking attacks in the cloud with minimal impact on IT equipment and end users and it ensures business continuity when company servers fail and protects against mail server overload.

In addition, the Hosted Email Security prevents potentially destructive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and Directory Harvest Attacks (DHA), and allows businesses to enforce email security policies through the use of attachment handling.

Kaspersky Hosted Web Security combines web security and web filtering in a single service, protecting the corporate network against web-borne threats such as malware and spyware and it offers companies a platform to control inbound and outbound web communications and to enforce proper employee use of the internet.

Further the Hosted Web Security protects against undesirable or dangerous web content, optimises network resources by removing bandwidth congestion, protects remote and roaming workers, and creates comprehensive reports.

Kaspersky Lab Europe Corporate Sales senior vice-president Ilijana Vavan said as the threat landscape continues to grow, smaller firms are as vulnerable and exposed as their larger counterparts, but often lack the budgets and capability to explore and invest in expensive security.

"The new edition of Kaspersky Hosted Security has been completely re-built to offer small and mid-sized businesses and their trusted channel partners a powerful first line of defense in web and email protection," said Vavan.