Feature comparison of Windows-based and Linux-based Kaspersky Security Center

This section provides the feature comparison of Kaspersky Security Center: Windows-based vs. Linux-based. The feature comparison is presented in the table below.

Feature comparison of Kaspersky Security Center working as a Windows-based solution and Linux-based solution

 

Feature or property

Windows-based Kaspersky Security Center

Linux-based Kaspersky Security Center

Administration Server location

On-premises

On-premises

Database management system (DBMS) location

On-premises

On-premises

(MariaDB and MySQL 8.0 only)

Operating system to install Administration Server on

Windows

Linux

Administration console type

On-premises and web-based

Web-based

Operating system to install the web-based administration console on

Windows or Linux

Windows or Linux

Hierarchy of Administration Servers

Yes

Yes

Administration group hierarchy

Yes

Yes

Network polling

Yes

  • IP range polling
  • Windows network polling
  • Active Directory polling

Yes

IP range polling

Maximum number of managed devices

100,000

20,000

Protection of Windows, Linux, and macOS managed devices

Yes

No

(protection of Linux devices only)

Protection of mobile devices

Yes

No

Protection of virtual machines

Yes

Yes

Protection of public cloud infrastructure

Yes

No

Device-centric security management

Yes

Yes

User-centric security management

Yes

Yes

Application policies

Yes

Yes

Tasks for Kaspersky applications

Yes

Yes

Kaspersky Security Network

Yes

No

KSN Proxy

Yes

No

Kaspersky Private Security Network

Yes

No

Centralized deployment of license keys for Kaspersky applications

Yes

Yes

Support for virtual Administration Servers

Yes

Yes

Installing third-party software updates and fixing third-party software vulnerabilities

Yes

No

(by using a remote installation task only)

Notifications about events that occurred on managed devices

Yes

Yes

Creating and managing user accounts

Yes

Yes

Integration with SIEM systems

Yes

Yes

(by using Syslog only)

Monitoring statuses of policies and tasks

Yes

Yes

Support of clusters and server arrays in administration groups

Yes

(in MMC-based Administration Console only)

No

Deployment of the Kaspersky failover cluster

Yes

No

Installing Administration Server on a Microsoft failover cluster

Yes

No

See also:

Feature comparison of Kaspersky Security Center running on-premises and as a cloud solution

Feature comparison of MMC-based Administration Console and Kaspersky Security Center Web Console

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