Kaspersky Security Network

Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) is an infrastructure of cloud services providing access to Kaspersky's online knowledge base with information about the reputation of files, web resources, and software. The use of data from Kaspersky Security Network ensures faster responses by Kaspersky Endpoint Security to various threats, improves the performance of some protection components, and reduces the likelihood of false positives.

Depending on the location of the infrastructure, there is a Global KSN service (the infrastructure is hosted by Kaspersky servers) and a Private KSN service (the infrastructure is hosted by third-party servers, for example on the network of the Internet service provider).

After changing the license, submit the details of the new key to the service provider in order to be able to use Private KSN. Otherwise, data exchange with Private KSN will be impossible due to an authentication error.

Thanks to users who participate in Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky is able to develop solutions for neutralizing threats and minimize the number of false alarms displayed by application components.

There are three ways to participate in Kaspersky Security Network:

• Kaspersky Security Network with statistics—You can obtain information from the knowledge base. The application automatically sends statistics generated during operation of the application to KSN. The application can also send to Kaspersky for additional scanning certain files (or parts of files) that intruders can use to harm the computer or data.
• Kaspersky Security Network without statistics—You can obtain information from the knowledge base, but the application does not send anonymous statistics and information about the types and sources of threats.
• Save Kaspersky Security Network statistics to file—The application does not send requests and detection statistics to Kaspersky Security Network. The application may save detection statistics to a JSON file. Files containing statistics for each date other than the current date are packed into a separate TAR archive.

No personal data is collected, processed, or stored. More detailed information about submission of statistical information generated during participation in KSN, storage and destruction of such information is available in the Kaspersky Security Network Statement and on the Kaspersky website at (https://www.kaspersky.com/products-and-services-privacy-policy). The file with the text of the Kaspersky Security Network Statement is included in the application distribution kit.

User computers managed by Kaspersky Security Center Administration Server can interact with KSN via the KSN Proxy service.

The KSN Proxy service provides the following capabilities:

• The user's computer can query KSN and submit information to KSN, even without direct access to the Internet.
• KSN Proxy caches processed data, thereby reducing the load on the external network connection and speeding up receipt of the information that is requested by the user's computer.

More details about the KSN Proxy service can be found in the Kaspersky Security Center documentation.

KSN Proxy settings can be configured in the properties of the of Kaspersky Security Center policy.

Participation in Kaspersky Security Network is voluntary. The application offers the user to participate in KSN during installation. Users can begin or discontinue participation in KSN at any time.

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