Updating application databases

Application databases (hereinafter also referred to as "databases") are files with records used by the application components and modules to detect events occurring in your organization's IT infrastructure.

Virus analysts at Kaspersky detect hundreds of new threats daily (including "zero-day" exploits), create records to identify them, and include them in database updates packages ("update packages"). Update packages consist of one or more files containing records to identify threats that were detected since the previous update package was released. We recommend that you regularly receive update packages. When the application is installed, the database release date is the same as the application release date, and therefore you must update the databases immediately after installing the application.

The application automatically looks for new update packages on Kaspersky update servers once every 30 minutes. By default, if for some reason application databases are not updated for 24 hours, Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform displays this information in the Dashboard section of the window of the application web interface.

If the version of Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform is not supported, the application databases are not updated, and the Dashboard section in the System health window of the application web interface, displays the This version of Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform is no longer supported. Please upgrade the application to a supported version warning.

You can see which versions of the application are currently supported on the application lifecycle page.

The update functionality (including anti-virus signature updates and code base updates), as well as the KSN functionality may be unavailable in the territory of the USA.

See also

For administrators: Getting started with the application web interface

Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform Interface

Monitoring the performance of the application

Managing Central Node, PCN, or SCN servers using the application web interface

Managing the Sensor component

Managing the cluster

Notifications about the maximum allowed CPU and RAM load for the Central Node and Sensor servers

Configuring the SNMP protocol connection

Managing Endpoint Agent host information

Configuring integration with the Sandbox component

Configuring integration with external systems

Configuring integration with Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response

Configuring integration with an SIEM system

Managing the activity log

Creating a list of passwords for archives

Configuring integration with ArtX TLSproxy

In this section

Selecting a database update source

Updating databases manually

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