The help for this version of the solution is no longer updated, so it may contain outdated information. For up-to-date information about the solution refer to the Kaspersky Secure Mobility Management 4.1 Help.

Participating in Kaspersky Security Network

To protect mobile devices more effectively, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android uses data acquired from users around the globe. Kaspersky Security Network is designed to process such data.

Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) is an infrastructure of cloud services providing access to Kaspersky 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 applications to threats, improves the performance of some protection components, and reduces the likelihood of false alarms.

Your participation in Kaspersky Security Network helps Kaspersky to acquire real-time information about the types and sources of new threats, develop methods of neutralizing them, and reduce the number of false alarms of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android. Participation in Kaspersky Security Network also lets you access reputation statistics for applications and websites.

When you participate in Kaspersky Security Network, some statistics are acquired while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android are running and are automatically sent to Kaspersky. This information makes it possible to keep track of threats in real time. Files or their parts which may be exploited by intruders to harm the computer or user's content can be also sent to Kaspersky for additional examination.

Use of Kaspersky Security Network is required for the operation of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android. KSN is used by the main components of the app: Anti-Malware, Web Protection, and App Control. Refusal to participate in KSN reduces the level of device protection, which may lead to infection of the device and loss of data. To start using Kaspersky Security Network, you must accept the terms of the End User License Agreement when installing the app. By reading the End User License Agreement, you can learn which data is transmitted to Kaspersky Security Network by Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android.

To improve the performance of the app, you can additionally provide statistical data to Kaspersky Security Network. Providing the above information to the KSN is voluntary. To start using Kaspersky Security Network, you have to accept the terms of a special agreement – the Kaspersky Security Network Statement. You can opt out of participating in Kaspersky Security Network at any time. The Kaspersky Security Network Statement describes the types of data that Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android transmits to Kaspersky Security Network.

Updates functionality (including providing anti-malware signature updates and codebase updates), as well as KSN functionality will not be available in the software in the U.S. territory from 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on September 10, 2024 in accordance with the restrictive measures.

The help for this version of the solution is no longer updated, so it may contain outdated information. For up-to-date information about the solution refer to the Kaspersky Secure Mobility Management 4.1 Help.

Information exchange with Kaspersky Security Network

To improve real-time protection, Kaspersky Secure Mobility Management uses the Kaspersky Security Network cloud service for the operation of the following components:

• Anti-Malware. The app obtains access to the Kaspersky online knowledge base regarding the reputation of files and apps. The scan is performed for threats whose information has not yet been added to anti-malware databases but is already available in KSN. Kaspersky Security Network cloud service provides full operation of Anti-Malware and reduces the likelihood of false alarms.
• Web Protection. The app uses data received from KSN to run scan of websites before they are opened. The app also determines the website category to control internet access to users based on lists of allowed and blocked categories (for example, the "Internet communication" category).
• App Control. The app determines the app category to restrict the startup of apps that do not meet corporate security requirements based on lists of allowed and blocked categories (for example, the "Games" category).

Information on the type of data submitted to Kaspersky when using KSN during operation of Anti-Malware and App Control is available in the End User License Agreement. By accepting the terms and conditions of the License Agreement, you agree to transfer this information.

Information on the type of data submitted to Kaspersky when using KSN during operation of Web Protection is available in the Statement regarding data processing for Web Protection. By accepting the terms and conditions of the Statement, you agree to transfer this information.

For the purposes of identifying emerging information security threats, intrusion threats, and threats that are hard to detect (along with their respective sources), and to improve the protection of information stored and processed on a device, you can extend your participation in Kaspersky Security Network.

To exchange data with KSN for the purposes of improving the performance of the app, the following conditions must be fulfilled:

• You or the device user must read and accept the terms of the Kaspersky Security Network Statement. If you choose for the Statement to be accepted by users, they will be prompted by a notification on the main app screen to accept the terms of the Statement. Users can also accept the Statements in the About the app section in the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android settings.

  If you choose to accept the statements globally, the versions of the statements accepted via Kaspersky Security Center must match the versions already accepted by users. Otherwise, the users will be informed about the issue and prompted to accept the version of a statement that matches the version accepted globally by the administrator. The device status in the Kaspersky Security for Mobile (Devices) plug-in will also change to Warning.

• You must configure the group policy settings to allow statistics to be sent to KSN.

You can opt out of sending statistic data to Kaspersky Security Network at any time. Information on the type of statistic data submitted to Kaspersky when using KSN during operation of the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android mobile app is available in the Kaspersky Security Network Statement.

For more information about data provision to KSN, refer to the "Data provision" section.

Providing data to KSN is voluntary. If you want, you can disable data exchange with KSN.

The help for this version of the solution is no longer updated, so it may contain outdated information. For up-to-date information about the solution refer to the Kaspersky Secure Mobility Management 4.1 Help.

Enabling and disabling the use of Kaspersky Security Network

For the operation of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android components that use Kaspersky Security Network, the app sends requests to cloud services. Requests contain the data as described in the "Data provision" section.

If the use of Kaspersky Security Network is disabled on the device, the Cloud Protection, Web Protection, and App Control components are disabled automatically.

To enable or disable the use of Kaspersky Security Network:

1. Open the window with the settings of the management policy for mobile devices on which Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android is installed.
2. In the policy Properties window, select the Additional section.
3. In the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) settings section, configure the settings for using Kaspersky Security Network:
   • Select the Use Kaspersky Security Network check box for operation of the following components: Anti-Malware (Cloud Protection), Web Protection, and App Control (App categories).
   • Select the Allow statistics to be sent to KSN check box to submit data to Kaspersky. This data will help the Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Android app more quickly respond to threats, improve the performance of protection components, and decrease the likelihood of false alarms.
4. Click the Apply button to save the changes you have made.

Mobile device settings are changed after the next device synchronization with Kaspersky Security Center. Once the policy has been applied, the components that use Kaspersky Security Network are disabled and component settings become unavailable.

The help for this version of the solution is no longer updated, so it may contain outdated information. For up-to-date information about the solution refer to the Kaspersky Secure Mobility Management 4.1 Help.

Using Kaspersky Private Security Network

Kaspersky Private Security Network (hereinafter also referred to as KPSN) is a solution that grants access to the reputation databases of Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), without sending data from users' devices to Kaspersky Security Network.

A database of the reputations of objects (files or URLs) is stored on the Kaspersky Private Security Network server, but not on Kaspersky Security Network servers. KPSN reputation databases are stored within the corporate network and are managed by the company administrator.

When KPSN is enabled, Kaspersky Endpoint Security does not send any statistical data from users' devices to KSN.

To enable use of KPSN via Kaspersky Security Center:

1. In the main window of Kaspersky Security Center Web Console or Cloud Console, click Settings ().

   The Administration Server properties window opens.

2. On the General tab, select the KSN Proxy settings section.
3. Switch the toggle button to the Use Kaspersky Private Security Network Enabled position.
4. Click the Select file with KSN Proxy settings button, and then browse for the configuration file that has the pkcs7 or pem extension (provided by Kaspersky).
5. Click Open.
6. If you have the proxy server settings configured in the Administration Server properties, but your network architecture requires that you use KPSN directly, enable the Ignore proxy server settings when connecting to Private KSN option. Otherwise, requests from the managed applications cannot reach KPSN.
7. Click the Save button.

After the settings are downloaded, the interface displays the provider's name and contacts, as well as the creation date of the file with the settings of KPSN. KPSN settings are applied to mobile devices.

When you switch to KPSN, App Control does not support the app categories available when using KSN. App categorization will be available if you choose to switch back to KSN.