Kaspersky Endpoint Security 11 for Windows (version 11.0.0.6499): commercial release

Kaspersky Endpoint Security 11 was released on April 10, 2018. Full version number is 11.0.0.6499.

What’s new

• Integrated Endpoint Sensor component of Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response 1.0
  • IoC scanner (Indicators of Compromise)
  • Incident response tools
  • Incident investigation capabilities
• System Watcher for servers (components Behavior Detection, Remediation Engine and Exploit Prevention)
  • OS support for System Watcher
  • Shared folders protection (from remote encryption)
• User interface improvements
  • Protection components grouped by categories: Advanced Threat Protection and Essential Threat Protection
  • Technologies (machine learning, cloud analysis, etc) and protection components (Exploit Prevention, Behavior Detection, etc) are shown in statistics and reports.
• New names for components.
  • Antivirus renamed to Threat Protection (for example, File Anti-Virus renamed to File Threat Protection).
  • System Watcher split to 3 components: Behavior Detection, Remediation Engine, Exploit Prevention.
  • Application Privilege Control renamed to Host Intrusion Prevention.
  • Application Startup Control renamed to Application Control.
• Lightweight mode for Threat Protection (“Cloud mode”). Light antivirus databases with enabled KSN (require less RAM and drive space).
• Device Control
  • Anti-Bridging feature added (blocks unauthorized commuting between networks).
  • Importing/Exporting the list of trusted devices (in xml format which is convenient for reading/editing manually).
• Application Control
  • Mixed mode (simultaneous use of test and blocking rules).
  • New KL category – Trusted certificates.
• Simplified interface of Kaspersky Endpoint Security. Application tray icon in Microsoft Windows task bar and context menu without displaying full application window.
• Hash sum is specified in detection events and reports and can be used for exclusions. Can be used for configuring exclusions for Trusted Zone.
• Masks *,?, ** are supported in Trusted zone settings.
• Protection level indicator for policy.  Notifies in case critical protection components are disabled.
• Various usability improvements.
  • Simplified deployment wizard.
  • Optimized license management.

For more information about the release of Kaspersky Endpoint Security 11 for Windows, see this article.