Item: Kaspersky Endpoint Security
Rating: 7
Author: Kevin Staley

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used this solution on all of our company PCs and servers for at least three years. We used it to provide anti-virus and network protection to our endpoints. As of February 2019, we no longer use this solution.

Pros and Cons

Easy to schedule routine scans of systems.
Offers a way to selectively scan specific file(s) on-demand.
Provides a central management server to monitor and control endpoint deployment and maintenance.

In our installation, the management server was on our LAN. This made it difficult to manage those devices that did not "check-in" very often. This resulted in some systems' information to be out-dated in the console.
There is not a way to view live security events on an endpoint. We would often learn from the user of the endpoint that they were observing an issue.
When an endpoint was relocated to a different network e.g. a home vs. corporate network, the switching of network policies not always went as expected resulting in the enforcement of the incorrect policy.

Return on Investment

It reduced the incidents of infections and so reduced the efforts needed by the IT department to mitigate problems.
It made it difficult to manage the security of our growing mobile user base due to infrequent contact with our on-premise management server.

Alternatives Considered

VIPRE, McAfee Advanced Threat Defense and Norton Small Business

At the time, we thought its centralized management and highly-rated anti-virus detection capabilities stood out above the other solutions we reviewed.

Support Rating

We found their support center to be very responsive to our requests, and they had an easy to use portal to submit requests and search KB articles for assistance when needed.

Key Insights

Do you think Kaspersky Endpoint Security delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Kaspersky Endpoint Security's feature set?

Did Kaspersky Endpoint Security live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Kaspersky Endpoint Security go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Kaspersky Endpoint Security again?

Other Software Used

Microsoft Office 365, MiCloud Connect (formerly ShoreTel), Barracuda Cloud Archive (formerly Sonian)

Likelihood to Recommend

Addressing the solution we had and its use in our environment, I think it would have been a much better fit if we had less mobile endpoints. I think it is well suited for a corporate network whose endpoints are confined to LANs and/or WANs.

Did not provide the level of remote endpoint management we needed for a growing mobile workforce

Overall Satisfaction with Kaspersky Endpoint Security