About Kaspersky Security for Virtualization 5.2 Light Agent

Kaspersky Security for Virtualization 5.2 Light Agent (including the Kaspersky Security 5.2.1 update), hereinafter also referred to as "Kaspersky Security", is an integrated solution that provides comprehensive protection of virtual machines against various types of information security threats, network attacks, and fraud.

Kaspersky Security provides protection for virtual machines managed by the following hypervisors:

• VMware™ ESXi
• Citrix Hypervisor
• Microsoft® Windows Server® with the Hyper-V® role
• KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
• Proxmox VE
• R-Virtualization
• HUAWEI FusionCompute CNA
• Nutanix AHV
• VeiL Node
• SharxBase
• KVM managed by TIONIX Cloud Platform.
• KVM managed by OpenStack® Platform.
• Basic hypervisor of the ALT Virtualization Server platform.
• KVM managed by the "Brest" Virtualization Tools software package platform.
• zVirt Node.

  There are some limitations on the installation and operation of the application in virtual infrastructures running on these platforms: Enterprise Cloud Platform VeiL, SharxBase, Brest Virtualization Tools software package or zVirt Virtualization Environment. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.

Kaspersky Security is optimized to support maximum performance of the virtual machines that are protected by the application.

The application protects virtual machines running guest operating systems for servers and guest operating systems for desktops.

Kaspersky Security can be used in multitenancy mode. This application usage mode allows you to protect isolated virtual infrastructures in the tenant organization or units within an organization (hereinafter also referred to as "tenants").

The application comprises the following components:

• Kaspersky Security Protection Server (hereinafter "Protection Server") Supplied as an SVM (secure virtual machine) image. To install the Protection Server component, you must deploy SVMs on hypervisors in the virtual infrastructure.
• Kaspersky Security Light Agent (hereinafter "Light Agent") The Light Agent component must be installed on each virtual machine that you want to protect using Kaspersky Security.
• Integration Server: It facilitates interaction between Kaspersky Security components and the virtual infrastructure.

Each type of threats is handled by a separate Light Agent functional component.

Application can be managed using:

• Kaspersky Security Center.
• Light Agent for Linux or Light Agent for Windows command line.
• Light Agent for Windows local interface (hereinafter also referred to as the "local interface").

In this Help section Distribution kit Hardware and software requirements Light Agent functional components Advanced features of the application

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