Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum Integration

Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum is a solution for protecting an organization's IT infrastructure from threats such as exploits, ransomware, fileless attacks, and legitimate system tools used by attackers to compromise devices or data.

Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum monitors and analyzes the evolution of threats, and provides information about a potential attack to a security officer or administrator, helping them perform response actions in a timely manner.

Integration of Kaspersky Endpoint Security with the Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum solution is facilitated by a Kaspersky Endpoint Security component: Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum (EDR Optimum).

Kaspersky Endpoint Security 12.2 for Linux is compatible with Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum version 3.1.

Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum uses the following Threat Intelligence tools:

When interacting with Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum, Kaspersky Endpoint Security can:

Integration with Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum involves the following steps:

  1. Enabling required components of Kaspersky Endpoint Security

    Make sure that the following components of Kaspersky Endpoint Security are enabled and working:

  2. Enabling threat analysis tools

    Make sure that Kaspersky Security Network is enabled in standard or extended mode.

    For the most effective operation of Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum, we recommend the extended Kaspersky Security Network mode.

  3. Activating the EDR Optimum component

    Make sure one of the following conditions is satisfied:

    • You are using Kaspersky Endpoint Security under a license that includes the Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum functionality.
    • You have purchased a separate license for the Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum functionality and also added the license key for the EDR Optimum additional functionality (EDR Optimum key) to the application.
  4. Installing the Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum administration plug-in

    The Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum management plug-in is a unified plug-in for managing agents on Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems; the plug-in is necessary to display and view alert details.

  5. Enabling the Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum Integration

    By default, the integration of Kaspersky Endpoint Security with Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum is disabled. You can enable, disable, or configure the integration:

    You can check the status of the EDR Optimum component:

  6. Enabling data transfer to the Administration Server

    To use all functionality of Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum, you must configure the following:

    • Enable sending information about files in Backup and Quarantine to the Kaspersky Security Center storage. To do this, you need to select the following check boxes in the policy properties:
      • Inform about files in Backup
      • Inform about files in Quarantine
    • Allow display of alert list To do this, you can enable the Show EDR alerts toggle switch in the main window of Kaspersky Security Center Web Console under SettingsInterface settings.

      The Show EDR alerts setting not available in a Web Console version earlier than 15.1.

In this section

Enabling or disabling Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum integration

Viewing the Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Optimum integration status

Viewing information about a detected threat and response actions

Searching for indicators of compromise

Start process

Terminate process

Receiving a file from a device

Delete file from device

Quarantine file

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