About the licensing

This section describes the licensing levels of Kaspersky CyberTrace.

Commercial licensing levels and Community Edition

The Kaspersky CyberTrace licensing policy provides two licensing types:

• Community Edition

  This is a limited licensing level where Kaspersky CyberTrace can be used without a license key. Community Edition can be used for evaluation purposes. This licensing level does not have an expiration date.

  If no license key is added, the Community Edition licensing level is used.

  The Community Edition licensing level has the following limitations:

  • Multi-user mode is not available. Kaspersky CyberTrace has a single account with the Administrator role that can perform all operations.
  • No more than 250 events per second are processed.
  • No more than 1,000,000 records can be loaded from all feeds.
• Commercial licensing levels

  These licensing levels are available with a license key and are suited for different enterprise scenarios.

  To obtain a license key, contact your Account Manager.

  A license key can be added to Kaspersky CyberTrace by using either an activation code or a license key file. License keys that are added via an activation code and via a key file have some differences.

  Differences between license keys that are added via an activation code and via a key file

  Parameter	License key that is added by using an activation code	License key that is added by using a key file
  Period between notification about upcoming license key expiration and actual expiration	Shorter	Longer
  How to replace a license key to continue using Kaspersky CyberTrace	Request a license key renewal from your Account Manager. The information in Kaspersky CyberTrace is refreshed automatically or manually.	Obtain a new license key from your Account Manager, and then add it to Kaspersky CyberTrace.

Priority of the licensing levels

Below is the list of licensing levels, starting with the highest priority:

• Enterprise TIP
• Matching Engine
• Community Edition

Information contained in the license key

A license key is a sequence of bits that you can apply to use a certain licensing level of Kaspersky CyberTrace.

A license key contains the following information:

• Licensing level
• Expiration date
• Limit on events per second (EPS)
• Limit on the total number of indicators that can be loaded from Kaspersky Threat Data Feeds

In addition, a license key lists available features.

License keys are stored in the %service_dir%/httpsrv/lic directory. You can manage license keys by using the Settings → Licensing tab.

When a license key expires or is about to expire, Kaspersky CyberTrace displays the notifications and sends the alert events.

Active and additional license keys

A license key may be active or additional.

An active license key is a license key that is currently used by Kaspersky CyberTrace. Kaspersky CyberTrace cannot have more than one active license key.

If there is a single license key that has not expired, this key is used as an active key. If there are several license keys that have not expired, the license key with the nearest expiration date is chosen. If all keys have expired, the Community Edition licensing level is used.

An additional license key is a license key that is not currently in use. The additional license key automatically becomes active when the current active license key expires. An additional license key can be added only if an active license key has already been added.

When adding a new license key, Kaspersky CyberTrace chooses the active license key that meets the following criteria:

• If your active license key is added via an activation code:
  • You are not allowed to add a second license key via an activation code.
  • When a new license key is added via a key file, your old license key added via an activation code remains active.
• If your active license key is added via a key file:
  • When a new license key is added via an activation code, this new license key becomes active.
  • When a new license key is added via a key file, your active and new license key are compared to each other:
    • The license key with the nearest expiration date is chosen.
    • If both license keys are with the same expiration date, the license key with a higher priority licensing level is chosen.
    • If the license keys have the same licensing level, any license key can be chosen.

Licensing and DMZ

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a segment of a local network that contains servers that respond to requests from the global Web. In order to ensure the security of an organization's local network, access to the LAN from the demilitarized zone is protected with a firewall.

Kaspersky CyberTrace does not send any licensing information to Kaspersky. Licensing functionality works in scenarios involving a DMZ.

If Kaspersky CyberTrace is used in the DMZ scenario, a license key can be added only by using a license key file.

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