AV-Comparatives Awards 2023 for Kaspersky

Kaspersky achieved great success in AV-Comparatives’ Enterprise and Consumer Main-Test Series of 2023. The tests covered different protection scenarios, system performance, and false positives.

Installation of Kaspersky Standard is straightforward, with safe default options. The program’s modern, tiled interface makes all essential features easily accessible from the home page. In our functionality check, Kaspersky’s highly sensitive on-access protection proactively deleted malware on a network share as soon as we opened it in Windows File Explorer, the same thing occurred when opening network shares. Advanced users will find a wide range of configuration options in the settings.

Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business (KESB) Select, with KSC is a tier of Kaspersky’s Endpoint Security for Business product line. It is aimed at medium-sized businesses and larger enterprises. The product provides a choice of either a server-based or a cloud-based console to manage the endpoint protection software.

AV-Comparatives’ tests are very carefully designed and executed to thoroughly and realistically simulate scenarios that face users in real life. Consequently, a certification by AV-Comparatives is a guarantee of an effective and reliable product. An “Approved Product” award means that the software has been rigorously checked to ensure that it will perform its intended task competently. It is an industry-recognised standard of quality.

AV-Comparatives’ tests have multiple aspects, to represent the different requirements of IT security solutions. Further awards highlight the effectiveness of individual programs in different protection scenarios, low false positives, and low impact on system performance. Users can thus see which programs score highly in the categories that matter most to them.

AV-Comparatives is an independent testing lab based in Innsbruck, Austria, that tests IT security products to see if they live up to their promises. AV-Comparatives is ISO 9001:2015 certified, having received a certificate from TÜV Austria for the scope “Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software”. AV-Comparatives is also the first av-test organisation to be certified by European Expert Group for IT-Security (EICAR) as an EICAR Trusted IT-Security Testing Lab.

AV-Comparatives Awards for Kaspersky

Kaspersky achieved excellent results in AV-Comparatives’ consumer and enterprise tests in 2023. In the enterprise tests, it received an Approved Enterprise & Business Security Product Award for the Enterprise Main-Test Series. In the Endpoint Prevention & Response Test, it was certified; it took a Certified Enterprise ATP Product Award for the Enterprise Advanced Threat Protection Test; and finally it was certified in the Anti-Tampering Test.

In the Consumer Main-Test Series, Kaspersky was AV-Comparatives’ Product of the Year 2023. It reached the highest Advanced+ level in all seven tests. In addition to an Approved Security Product Award, Kaspersky also won Silver Awards for the Advanced Threat Protection Test, Real-World Protection Test and Malware Protection Test, along with Bronze Awards for the Performance and Lowest False-Positives Tests. Kaspersky’s Windows products also took Approved Parental Control Product and Approved Anti-Phishing Product Awards.

Kaspersky went on to receive a further two awards for different platforms: Approved Mobile Security Product certification, and Approved Mac Security Product certification.