Glossary

End User License Agreement

A binding agreement between you and AO Kaspersky Lab, stipulating the terms on which you may use the application.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

Kaspersky applications installed on workstations or servers included in the organization IT infrastructure. These applications are used to protect the devices from viruses and other computer security threats. Hereinafter also referred to as EPP.

IOC

Indicator of Compromise. A set of data about a malicious object or action.

IOC file

A file that contains a set of compromise indicators that are compared to the indicators of an event. If the compared indicators match, the application considers the event to be a detection. The detection probability may increase if exact matches of data about the object with several IOC files were found during the scan.

Kaspersky Endpoint Agent

An application included in Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum solution.

Kaspersky Endpoint Agent is installed on individual devices in the organization IT infrastructure. The application constantly monitors the processes running on these devices, open network connections and the files being modified.

Kaspersky Endpoint Agent interacts with other Kaspersky solutions to detect comprehensive threats (such as targeted attacks).

OpenIOC

An open standard for Indicator of Compromise (IOC) description created on the basis of XML and containing over 500 various indicators of compromise.

Targeted attack

An attack targeted at a specific person or organization. Unlike mass attacks by computer viruses aimed at infecting maximum number of computers, targeted attacks can be aimed at infecting the network of a certain organization or even one server in the organization IT infrastructure. A special trojan program may be developed for each targeted attack.

TLS encryption

Encryption of the connection between two servers, providing secure data transfer between the servers in the Internet.

Tracing

Application debugging, during which the application stops after execution of each command, and the execution result is displayed.

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