Configuring monitoring rules

To add a monitoring scope:

1. Expand the Managed devices node in the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console tree.
2. Select the administration group for which you want to configure application settings.
3. Perform one of the following actions in the details pane of the selected administration group:
   • To configure application settings for a group of protected devices, select the Policies tab and open the Properties: <Policy name> window.
   • To configure the application for a single protected device, select the Devices tab and open the Application settings window.

     If an active Kaspersky Security Center policy is applied to a device and blocks changes to application settings, then these settings cannot be edited in the Application settings window.

4. In the System inspection section in the File Integrity Monitor subsection, click the Settings button.

   The File Integrity Monitor window opens.

5. In the Monitoring scope section, click the Add button.

   The File operations monitoring rule window opens.

6. Add a monitoring scope in one of the following ways:
   • If you want to select folders through the standard Microsoft Windows dialog:
     1. Click the Browse button.

        The standard Microsoft Windows Browse for folder window opens.

     2. In the Browse for folder window that opens, select the folder for which you want to monitor operations, and then click the OK button.
   • If you want to specify a monitoring scope manually, add a path using a supported mask:
     • <*.ext> — all files with the extension <ext>, regardless of their location
     • <*\name.ext> — all files with name <name> and extension <ext>, regardless of their location
     • <\dir\*> — all files in folder <\dir>
     • <\dir\*\name.ext> — all files with the name <name> and extension <ext> in folder <\dir> and all of its child folders

   When specifying a monitoring scope manually, be sure that the path is in the following format: <volume letter>:\<mask>. If the volume letter is missing, Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security will not add the specified monitoring scope.

7. On the Trusted users tab, click the Add button.

   The standard Microsoft Windows Select Users or Groups window appears.

8. Select the users or groups of users for whom file operations are allowed in the selected monitoring scope, and click the OK button.

   By default, Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security treats all users not on the trusted user list as untrusted, and generates Critical events for them. For trusted users, statistics are compiled.

9. Select the File operation markers tab.
10. Perform the following actions to select several markers as applicable:
    1. Select the Detect file operations based on the following markers option.
    2. On the list of available file operations select the check boxes next to the operations you want to monitor.

    By default Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security detects all file operation markers, the Detect file operations based on all recognizable markers option is selected.

11. If you want to block all file operations for the selected area, select the Detect and block the selected file operations check box.
12. If you want Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security to calculate a file checksum after an operation is performed, do the following:
    1. Select the Calculate checksum for the file if possible. The checksum will be available for viewing in the task report check box.
       

       If the check box is selected, Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security calculates the checksum of the modified file, if a file operation with at least one selected marker was detected.

       If the file operation is detected by several markers, Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security calculates only the checksum of the final file after all modifications.

       If the check box is cleared, Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security does not calculate the checksum of modified files.

       No checksum calculation is performed in the following cases:

       • If the file has become unavailable (for example, due to a change of access permissions).
       • If the file operation was detected in a file that was subsequently removed.

       The check box is cleared by default.

    2. In the Checksum type drop down list, select one of the options:
       • MD5 hash
       • SHA256 hash
13. If you do not want to monitor all file operations in the list of available file operations, select the check boxes next to the operations you want to monitor.
14. Add excluded monitoring scopes as applicable:
    1. Select the Exclusions tab.
    2. Select the Exclude the following folders from control check box.
       

       The check box disables use of exclusions for folders where file operations do not need to be monitored.

       If the check box is selected, Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security skips the monitoring scopes specified in the exclusions list when the File Integrity Monitor task is run.

       If the check box is cleared, Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security logs events for all specified monitoring scopes.

       By default, the check box is cleared and the exclusion list is empty.

    3. Click the Add button.

       The Select folder to add window opens.

    4. In the window that opens, specify the folder that you want to exclude from the monitoring scope.
    5. Click OK.

       The specified folder is added to the list of excluded scopes.

15. Click OK in the File operations monitoring rule window.

    The specified rule settings are applied to the selected monitoring scope of the File Integrity Monitor task.

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