Kaspersky Small Office Security: a new version available #protectmybiz #ksos<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n New features make it easier to focus valuable resources on running and developing the business while keeping operations, customer\u2019s and employee\u2019s data secure.<\/p>\n Small businesses \u2013 important role<\/strong><\/p>\n In more or less developed economies small businesses play a pivotal role, arguably even more important than large corporations. However, for a long time, business-grade solutions were oriented to enterprises with large infrastructures and in-house staff of IT professionals.<\/p>\n The necessity of a product that is positioned in-between the enterprise-level suites and home-users solutions became apparent only a few years ago.<\/p>\n The primary reason of this is a long-standing trend of cybercrime\u2019s \u201ccommercialization\u201d. Hackers turned from cybervandalism and \u201cworming\u201d the Web<\/a> to making profit<\/a>, using malware, phishing<\/a> and other \u201ctools of the trade\u201d, mostly purposed to get a grasp on others\u2019 money.<\/p>\n However, enterprises are hard targets for cybercrooks (who aren\u2019t exactly hi-tech geniuses<\/a>), so they increasingly hunt easier prey \u2013 which happen to be small businesses.<\/p>\n The latter often think that setting up a security solution is prohibitively expensive and that it will require a lot of effort to maintain. Besides, not every small entity can afford a dedicated IT specialist.<\/p>\n Second, often the smaller businesses assume they are too small to be of any interest to hackers and their security becomes less of a priority<\/a>.<\/p>\n And hackers know it.<\/p>\n Enterprise-level security for a small office<\/strong><\/p>\n As is the case with all Kaspersky Lab\u2019s products, Kaspersky Small Office Security is an in-house product and has the same codebase as the other solutions. This may sound a bit too technical, but the point is that it is as efficient as an enterprise-solution, but way easier to handle by non-tech people. As said before, not every small business can afford even an outsourced admin at first. And while today\u2019s average office worker knows much more about computers, software, and security than an average worker did 10-15 years ago, ease of use is still a great boon for any software.<\/p>\n So a powerful, but simple and easy-to-use security solution at an affordable price is what SMBs want when it comes to setting up a data security perimeter (and this necessity comes at day one).<\/p>\n The latest version of Kaspersky Small Office Security includes several brand new and improved features, such as:<\/p>\n Not Windows Alone<\/strong><\/p>\n Kaspersky Small Office Security now protects both Windows-based \u2013 Windows XP through Windows 8.1 \u2013 as well as Mac-based desktops\/notebooks, Windows file servers, and Android smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n Yes, Windows XP is still supported. Kaspersky Lab promised to continue supporting this aged OS until year 2016, since, even though it had been formally retired last year, Windows XP is still in wide use, including by businesses.<\/p>\n Android smartphones and tablets are covered because today\u2019s workforce is increasingly mobile, and\u00a0Android is the most malware-targeted mobile OS<\/a>, so it is quite logical to include the protection into a small office security suite.<\/p>\n The necessity of a product for SMBs became apparent only a few years ago.<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n Each user\/employee gets protection for one Windows or Mac computer and one mobile device plus Kaspersky Password Manager. File Server protection is added based on the number of protected users. Kaspersky Small Office Security is sold in preset license packages up to 25 employees<\/p>\n![\"wide\"](\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2015\/04\/06020318\/wide-1.jpg\")
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