Managing the application using Kaspersky Security Center

Kaspersky Security Center allows you to remotely and centrally manage the operation of Kaspersky Endpoint Security on client devices. You can remotely install and uninstall, start, and stop Kaspersky Endpoint Security; configure settings for the application, as well as for the individual components and tasks of the application; and start and stop tasks on the managed devices.

You can use the following Kaspersky Security Center administration consoles to manage Kaspersky Endpoint Security via Kaspersky Security Center:

• Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console (hereinafter also referred to as Administration Console). This is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is installed on the administrator's workstation and provides a user interface for the Administration Server and Network Agent administrative services.

  The interface for managing Kaspersky Endpoint Security via the Kaspersky Security Center Administration Console is provided by an MMC administration plug-in for the MMC-based Administration Console (hereinafter also referred to as MMC plug-in).

  This Help describes how to manage the Administration Console of Kaspersky Security Center 14.2 Windows.

• Kaspersky Security Center Web Console (hereinafter also referred to as Web Console). This is a web interface for managing a protection system based on Kaspersky applications. You can work in Kaspersky Security Center Web Console using a browser on any device that has access to the Administration Server.

  The interface for managing Kaspersky Endpoint Security via the Kaspersky Security Center Web Console is provided by a web administration plug-in (hereinafter also simply referred to as web plug-in).

  This Help describes how to manage the Web Console of Kaspersky Security Center 15.1 Linux.

• Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console. This is a cloud-based administration console within the cloud version of the Kaspersky Security Center application, also known as the Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console. Interface of the Cloud console is similar to Kaspersky Security Center Web Console interface. The interface for managing Kaspersky Endpoint Security via the Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console is also provided by the web plug-in.

  The Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console does not support managing the settings for integrating Kaspersky Endpoint Security with Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (KATA).

  It is not possible to manage the application using the Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console if Kaspersky Endpoint Security is used in Light Agent mode for protecting virtual environments.

The MMC plug-in and web plug-in allow you to create policies and tasks in Kaspersky Security Center for managing the operation of Kaspersky Endpoint Security:

• A policy is a set of settings that is applied on all devices in an administration group. Policies allow you to apply identical application settings to all client devices within an administration group.

  A set of devices combined in Kaspersky Security Center in accordance with the functions they perform and the set of Kaspersky applications installed on them. Devices are grouped to simplify administration as the group of devices can be managed as a single entity. An administration group can include other groups. For each application installed in the administration group, group policies and group tasks can be created.

  The Kaspersky Endpoint Security policy defines the general settings for the operation of Kaspersky Endpoint Security and the settings for the operation of individual functional components of the application on devices where the policy is applied.

• Tasks for Kaspersky Endpoint Security created in Kaspersky Security Center run on the protected devices and implement Kaspersky Endpoint Security functions such as on-demand scan, application activation, and updates to the databases and modules of the application.

  In Kaspersky Security Center, you can create tasks to be performed on an individual device (local tasks), tasks for all devices in the administration group (group tasks), or tasks for a random selection of devices (tasks for sets of devices).

Regardless of the Kaspersky Security Center administration console that you use, you must assign the devices on which Kaspersky Endpoint Security is installed to administration groups in order to manage Kaspersky Endpoint Security on these devices using Kaspersky Security Center. You can create administration groups in Kaspersky Security Center before Kaspersky Endpoint Security installation and configure rules to automatically move the devices to administration groups. You can also manually move the devices to the administration groups after installing Kaspersky Endpoint Security (for details, refer to Kaspersky Security Center documentation).