About Kaspersky Security 9.0 for Microsoft Exchange Servers

Kaspersky Security 9.0 for Microsoft Exchange Servers is an application designed for protecting mail servers based on Microsoft Exchange Server against viruses, Trojans, worms and other types of threats that could be transmitted via email, as well as against spam and phishing.

Kaspersky Security provides anti-spam protection on the level of your corporate mail server, saving your employees the trouble of deleting unwanted mail manually.

Kaspersky Security protects mailboxes, public folders, and relayed mail traffic on a Microsoft Exchange Server against malware, spam, and phishing. Kaspersky Security scans all e-mail traffic passing through the protected Microsoft Exchange Server.

Kaspersky Security can perform the following operations:

• Scan mail traffic (incoming, outgoing and internal email messages), as well as email messages stored on the Microsoft Exchange Server (including shared folders) for malware. The scan processes the message and all of its attachments. Depending upon the selected settings, the application disinfects and removes detected harmful objects and provides users with complete information about them.
• Filter mail traffic to prevent unsolicited mail (spam) and messages with fake senders (spoofing). The Anti-Spam component scans mail traffic for spam content. In addition, the Anti-Spam component lets you create lists of allowed or denied sender addresses and supports flexible configuration of Anti-Spam scanning sensitivity.
• Scan mail traffic for phishing and malicious URLs.
• Filter attachments and content in email messages by format, name, and size of attached files, and by keywords.
• Save backup copies of objects (an object consists of message content and its attachments) and spam messages prior to their disinfection or deletion to enable subsequent restoration, if required, thus preventing the risk of data losses. Configurable filters allow the user to easily locate specific stored objects.
• Notify the sender, the recipient and the system administrator about messages that contain malicious objects.
• Manage identical settings of multiple Security Servers in centralized mode by means of profiles.
• Maintain event logs, display statistics, and create regular reports on application activity. The application can create reports automatically according to a schedule or manually.
• Configure the application settings to match the volume and type of relayed mail traffic, in particular, define the maximum connection wait time to optimize scanning.
• Update the Kaspersky Security databases automatically or in manual mode. Updates can be downloaded from the FTP and HTTP servers of Kaspersky, from a local / network folder that contains the latest set of updates, or from user-defined FTP and HTTP servers.
• Re-scan old (previously scanned) messages for the presence of new viruses or other threats according to a schedule. This task is performed as a background scan and has little effect on the mail server's performance.
• Perform anti-virus protection on storage level based on the list of protected storages.

Distribution kit

Kaspersky Security is available from online stores of Kaspersky (for example, http://www.kaspersky.com, in the eStore section) and from partner companies.

Kaspersky Security is supplied as part of Kaspersky Security for Mail Servers and Kaspersky Total Security.

After buying a license for Kaspersky Security, you will receive an email with a link for downloading the application from the eStore website along with an application key file, or a CD with the distribution kit containing the application files and manuals.

Before breaking the seal on the envelope with the installation disk, carefully read through the EULA.

What's new

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Servers has the following new capabilities and improvements:

• Added email phishing scanning even for when the antivirus is the only email security component installed.
• Added support for the new KSC 14.2 version.
• Added the ability to use SMTP as an alternative to sending notifications using EWS.
• Enhanced protection against AD sender spoofing.
• Added LDAPS support instead of the obsolete LDAP.
• Added support for NTLM 2.0 and Kerberos.
• Added the ability to block B2B bulk mail.
• Added support for new OS and DBMS types.

Kaspersky Security 9.0 for Microsoft Exchange Servers Maintenance Release 7 is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable European Union laws on confidential information, personal data and data protection.

Hardware and software requirements

For Kaspersky Security to work properly, the computer should meet the hardware and software requirements listed below.

Hardware requirements

The hardware requirements for installing the Security Server are identical to the hardware requirements for a protected Microsoft Exchange server, except for the RAM volume. The Management Console is installed together with the Security Server.

Hardware requirements for installing the Security Server:

• Processor – according to the hardware requirements for the protected Microsoft Exchange server
• At least 2 GB of free RAM
• 6 GB of available disk space

  Additional disk space may be required depending on the application settings and operation mode.

The Management Console can be also installed separately from the Security Server.

Hardware requirements for the Management Console installation:

• Intel Pentium 400 MHz or faster processor (1000 MHz recommended)
• 256 MB of free RAM
• 500 MB of available disk space for installing the application

Software requirements

The Security Server can be installed in one of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard or Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard or Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard or Datacenter;

The application also supports Microsoft Windows Server operating systems in Core mode.

The following software is required to install the Security Server:

• One of the following mail servers:
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 deployed in at least one of the following roles: Mailbox or Edge Transport.
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 deployed in at least one of the following roles: Mailbox or Edge Transport.
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 deployed in at least one of the following roles: Mailbox, Hub Transport, or Client Access Server (CAS).
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8.
• One of the following database management systems (DBMS):
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Express, Standard, or Enterprise
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Express, Standard, or Enterprise
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Express, Standard, or Enterprise
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Express, Standard, or Enterprise.

The Management Console can be installed in one of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Standard or Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard or Datacenter
• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard or Datacenter

  The application also supports Microsoft Windows Server operating systems in Core mode.

• Microsoft Windows 11 (x64)
• Microsoft Windows 10 (x64)

Installation of the Management Console requires the following software:

• Microsoft Management Console 3.0
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8.

To install any application component (Security Server or Administration Console), you must install Microsoft Windows update KB2999226.

The Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio package must be preinstalled before installing/updating the product. The latest versions of libraries of both bitness must be installed by the following links: https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe, https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe.

For the correct application operation after installing and updating it, update the Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam databases.

To install the administration plug-in, you must have the following version of Kaspersky Security Center:

• Kaspersky Security Center 14.2

About data provision

The application uses data whose processing requires the consent of the Kaspersky Security administrator.

You can view the list of data and the terms of its use, and give consent to data processing in the following agreements concluded between your organization and Kaspersky:

• In the End User License Agreement and the Privacy Policy.

  According to the terms of the accepted End User License Agreement, you agree to automatically send Kaspersky the information listed in the End User License Agreement under "Data Provision". This information is needed to improve the level of real-time protection.

• In the Kaspersky Security Network Statement.

  If you participate in Kaspersky Security Network and send KSN statistics to Kaspersky, information received during operation of the application may also be transmitted. The list of data sent is given in the Kaspersky Security Network Statement.

  You can read the terms of the Kaspersky Security Network Statement in the following ways:

  • By clicking the KSN Participation Agreement link in the Settings node.
  • By reading the ksn_agreement.rtf document located in the application installation folder.

  Participation in Kaspersky Security Network is voluntary. You can opt out of participating in Kaspersky Security Network at any time.

• In the section titled Working with personal data of users.

  The Kaspersky Security administrator must become familiar with the list of such data and ensure its security.

Kaspersky protects any received information pursuant to the legal requirements and effective Kaspersky rules.