Configuring the settings for connecting to Kaspersky Private Security Network
July 25, 2024
ID 140552
To configure the settings for connecting to Kaspersky Private Security Network:
- Perform the following steps in the Management Console tree:
- If you want to configure the connection to Kaspersky Private Security Network for an unassigned Security Server, expand the node of the relevant Security Server.
- If you want to configure the KPSN connection settings for Security Servers belonging to a profile, expand the Profiles node and within it expand the node of the profile for whose Security Servers you want to configure the connection to Kaspersky Private Security Network.
- Select the Settings node.
- In the workspace, expand the KSN Settings section of settings.
- Select the Use Kaspersky Private Security Network (KPSN) check box.
The Import button becomes activated.
- Click the Import button.
The Open folder window opens.
- In the Open folder window, select the folder containing the files with the settings for connecting to Kaspersky Private Security Network servers.
The following files are provided by Kaspersky:
- Files containing the settings for connecting to KPSN servers:
- kc_private.xms
- kh_private.xms.
- ksncli_private.dat – file containing a public RSA key for encrypting the channel used to transmit data between the application and Kaspersky Private Security Network servers.
For detailed information please refer to Technical Support.
If you have received files containing settings for connecting to Kaspersky Private Security Network servers and the names of those files differ from the names specified in this reference document, change the file names to match the file names specified in this reference document.
- Files containing the settings for connecting to KPSN servers:
- Click OK.
- Click the Save button.
The application imports files containing the connection settings and applies the received settings for the connection with Kaspersky Private Security Network servers.
If you are using Kaspersky Private Security Network for the purpose of not transmitting your organization's data over the Internet, make sure that you have disabled other additional Kaspersky Security services such as the Enforced Anti-Spam Update Service that requires an Internet connection to exchange data with Kaspersky servers.