Self-Defense prevents other applications from performing actions that can interfere with the operation of Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security. The application has self-defense mechanisms that protect the application against modification or deletion of its folders, memory processes, and system registry entries. Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security supports the Antimalware Protected Process Light (AM-PPL) technology by Microsoft, which protects application processes from malicious activity. Additionally, the application allows managing user access permissions to application functionality and separately to the application service.