About the license

A license is a time-limited right to use the application, granted under the End User License Agreement.

A valid license entitles you to the following kinds of services:

• Use of the application in accordance with the terms of the End User License Agreement
• Getting technical support

The scope of services and validity period depend on the type of license under which the application was activated.

The following types of licenses are available:

• Trial – a free license for users to get to know the application.

  Trial licenses have a short validity period. On expiry of a trial license, all the functions of Kaspersky Security become unavailable. To continue using the application, you need to purchase a commercial license.

  You can activate the application under a trial license only once.

• Commercial – a paid license that is provided when you purchase Kaspersky Security.

  When the commercial license expires, the application continues running with limited functionality (for example, Kaspersky Security database updates are not available). To continue using Kaspersky Security in fully functional mode, you must renew your commercial license.

It is recommended to extend the validity period of the license before its expiration date to ensure maximum protection.

Application functionality that is available under a commercial license depends on the type of commercial license. The following types of commercial licenses are available for Kaspersky Security application:

• standard license
• enterprise license

The following application functionality is available only if you are using the application under an enterprise license:

• Integrity Monitoring component.
• Application Startup Control component.
• Extended SVM selection capabilities: use of tags for connecting Light Agents to SVMs, and configuration of the algorithm for selecting which SVM to connect to.

Please keep in mind that the application functionality available under an enterprise license is available on a Light Agent only if the Light Agent is connected to an SVM on which the key for the enterprise license was added. If the Light Agent is disconnected from this SVM and connects to an SVM on which a key for a standard license was added, some of the application functionality on the Light Agent will become unavailable.

Kaspersky Security application offers the following licensing schemes:

• Licensing by number of virtual machines protected using the application. This licensing scheme employs server or desktop keys (depending on the operating system type of the protected virtual machines). In accordance with the licensing restrictions, the application is used to protect a certain number of virtual machines, on which the Light Agent component is installed.
• Licensing by number of cores used in the physical processors on the hypervisors on which protected virtual machines are running. The licensing scheme employs keys with restrictions on the number of processor cores. In accordance with the licensing restrictions, the application is used to protect all virtual machines with the Light Agent component that can run on the hypervisors, which use a certain number of cores in their physical processors.
• Licensing by the number of processors used on the hypervisors on which protected virtual machines are running. This licensing scheme uses keys with a restriction on the number of processors. In accordance with the licensing restriction, the application is used to protect all virtual machines with the Light Agent component that run on hypervisors using a certain number of processors.

For all SVMs and protected virtual machines connected to them, it is recommended to use only one of the specified licensing schemes.

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