Participating in Kaspersky Security Network

This section provides information about participation in Kaspersky Security Network.

About participation in Kaspersky Security Network

To protect your computer more effectively, Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway uses data that is collected from users around the globe. Kaspersky Security Network is designed for gathering this data.

Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) is an infrastructure of cloud services providing access to Kaspersky Lab's online knowledge base with information about the reputation of files, web resources, and software. Data from Kaspersky Security Network ensures faster response by Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway to new threats, improves the performance of some protection components, and reduces the risk of false positives.

Thanks to users who participate in Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky Lab is able to promptly gather information about types and sources of new threats, develop solutions for neutralizing them, and minimize the number of false positives.

When you participate in Kaspersky Security Network, certain statistics collected while Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway is running are sent to Kaspersky Lab automatically. Files or their parts which may be exploited by intruders to harm the computer or data can be also sent to Kaspersky Lab to be examined additionally.

No personal data is collected, processed, or stored. The types of data that Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway sends to Kaspersky Security Network are described in the KSN Statement.

Participation in Kaspersky Security Network is voluntary. The decision to participate in Kaspersky Security Network is taken during installation of Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway, and can be changed at any time.

Configuring participation in Kaspersky Security Network

To accept or reject participation in Kaspersky Security Network:

1. In the main window of the application web interface, open the management console tree and select the Settings section and Protection subsection.
2. In the External services section, click the KSN Statement link to open the KSN Statement window.
3. Read the Kaspersky Security Network Statement and select one of the following options:
   • Accept if you want to participate in Kaspersky Security Network.
   • Do not accept if you do not want to participate in Kaspersky Security Network.
4. Click the Apply button.

   The KSN Statement window closes.

5. In the External services section, click the KSN timeout link to open the External services window.
6. In the External services settings group, in the KSN timeout field specify the maximum KSN timeout in seconds. You can specify a value in the range from 1 to 300 seconds.

   The default value is 10 seconds.

7. Click the Apply button.