You can enable detection of legitimate applications that can be used by cybercriminals to harm your organization's local network. Kaspersky Endpoint Agent considers such applications as posing threats and performs threat response actions on them.
Legitimate applications are allowed to be installed and used on devices and are designed to perform user tasks. However, some types of legitimate applications, when used by cybercriminals, may harm devices or organization's local network. If cybercriminals gain access to such applications or deploy them on devices, they can use functions of such applications to violate security of the devices or organization’s local network.
Such applications include IRC clients, dialers, file download applications, computer system activity monitors, password utilities, Internet servers for FTP, HTTP or Telnet services.
To enable detection of potentially harmful legitimate applications:
Detection of legitimate applications that can be used by cybercriminals to harm your organization's local network is enabled.