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January 25, 2016

New Kaspersky Lab Technology Enhances Usability when Protecting Corporate Data with Encryption

Kaspersky Lab has patented a new technology to control user access to encrypted data

Kaspersky Lab has patented a new technology to control user access to encrypted data. Used in Kaspersky Lab’s corporate products, this technology ensures seamless employee access to encrypted volumes while maintaining high level of security. The patent was granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Encryption allows corporations to add an additional layer of security to protect their data: even in case of a security breach proper data access limits combined with encryption technology reduce the risk of data loss – the latter being a major concern for businesses around the world. According to Kaspersky Lab’s Corporate IT Security Risks Survey, 25% of businesses around the world named prevention of all kinds of data leaks their top IT Security priority.

Deployment of encryption and its efficiency is challenged by often complexity of this approach. Kaspersky Lab’s recently patented technology is one of the many approaches offered to our corporate customers that simplify deployment and use of encryption. This particular technology focuses on the process of full-disk encryption – a process, when an entire disk drive is encrypted, instead of select files as in file level encryption. The fact that the entire storage of a computer is encrypted, usually requires a systems administrator to create user profiles for every user. Other methods to manage user access may as well be unavailable, until the operating system of a computer is loaded, which introduces certain challenges for an IT department.

The patented technology allows to automatically identify active users of a computer, create pre-boot profiles for them and automatically apply security policies, specific for a certain user or group of users. Therefore, in case a computer is used by many employees at different times, the technology simplifies the adoption of encryption technology.

“In addition to simplifying multiple user scenario, this technology also solves a number of challenges IT professionals meet when initially deploying encryption. This technology identifies active users of a computer and makes sure that after full disk encryption is performed, they are able to access their accounts with existing security privileges. With this and other technologies we make sure that businesses are able to strengthen their security as effortlessly as possible”, - commented Konstantin Kamanin, Kaspersky Lab’s security expert and one of the authors of the technology.

The technology is implemented in the corporate solution Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, a comprehensive security suite for corporations which is managed from a single console along with Kaspersky Lab’s other security solutions.

New Kaspersky Lab Technology Enhances Usability when Protecting Corporate Data with Encryption

Kaspersky Lab has patented a new technology to control user access to encrypted data
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