For the 5th year in a row Kaspersky VPN has been awarded with the ‘Approved’ certificate by AV-TEST for its stable connection, highly effective privacy protection and low impact on the device and connection performance. This year, Kaspersky Premium, with built-in VPN functionality, joined the certification process for the first time — and delivered exceptional results.
According to recent research more than 1.75 billion people all over the world use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) on a regular basis, almost 40% of them use a VPN for work. As an essential digital tool, it is crucially important that a VPN service provides an uninterrupted connection, enables fast downloads even from foreign servers and does not slow down a device’s performance. Users of the Kaspersky VPN service can be confident exactly in this secure and qualitative experience.
Based on the AV-TEST 2024 annual evaluations, Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection demonstrates excellent results in upload and download speeds, ensuring data protection with powerful encryption and stability of connection within the minimized latency.
In 2024 testing and certification, Kaspersky VPN service was specially noted for its consistent results throughout the entire testing and significant growth in upload and download speeds indicators. Average local download speeds increased by 64% compared to last year, while upload speeds saw a 33% rise. Such a high-speed performance enables users to work with mass data, stream videos and play online games without any delays, which makes the solution a great choice for gamers and streaming fans among others.
Even when connected to overseas servers in various regions, Kaspersky VPN allows fast file downloads and uploads with very little impact on performance, as confirmed by the AV-TEST. With consistent quality across continents, from Europe to Asia and the Americas, the product demonstrated strong, stable performance, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Customers can enjoy a broad server network offered by the product choosing among 89 countries with 110 server locations, having stable and high-speed connection, regardless of their location.
Additionally, Kaspersky VPN service successfully passed all security tests:
• DNS leak test – used to check whether a user’s Domain Name System (DNS) requests are not being exposed to the third parties.
• Kill Switch activation test – aimed at checking automatic internet shutdown in case the VPN connection drops unexpectedly.
• Test with torrenting – purposed for verifying whether the user's IP address remains hidden when transferring files.
• Email leak check – designed for indicating whether the user's IP address remains hidden when sending emails.
Kaspersky VPN passed DNS leak test, tests with email and torrenting on both Windows and Android, with no IP addresses showing up, even during stress tests with the Kill Switch function activated. The Kill Switch responded reliably and immediately each time, cutting the internet when the VPN dropped and reconnecting once a secure tunnel was re-established.
Outstanding testing results also applies to the VPN service in Kaspersky Premium, the most feature-rich tier of the Kaspersky consumer portfolio, which has participated in the test for the first time. Kaspersky Premium’s VPN excellent performance highlights that malware protection and VPN can effectively operate simultaneously without affecting each other’s performance. Thus, ensuring comprehensive privacy and security protection.
AV-TEST expert reviews states: “Kaspersky VPN maintained stable, uninterrupted connections and reliably protected user data throughout all testing, reinforcing its ability to support a wide range of everyday online activities — from file transfers and streaming to remote work and secure browsing — with minimal performance impact.”
“We are very happy to receive certification from AV-TEST 5th year in a row. This is a significant acknowledgment of our team's hard work and dedication in providing the best VPN to our customers. We continuously aim to deliver the fastest connection paired with top-tier data protection, ensuring zero interference in the customer’s online activities. Regular participation in independent industry testing, such as our recent AV-TEST certification, highlights our product’s technical excellence, high efficiency, convenience and top level of security both for users of a standalone application as well as of Kaspersky Premium, that enables complete digital life protection” – comments Marina Titova, Vice-President, Consumer Marketing and Business Development at Kaspersky.
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