AV-Comparatives Awards 2024 for Kaspersky

Kaspersky achieved great success in AV-Comparatives’ Enterprise and Consumer Main-Test Series of 2024. The tests covered different protection scenarios, system performance, and false positives.

The installation of Kaspersky Standard is straightforward, using safe default options. The program’s modern, tiled interface makes all essential features easily accessible from the home page. Advanced users will find a wide range of configuration options under 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 was very successful in AV-Comparatives’ 2024 enterprise tests. It received the Approved Enterprise & Business Security Product Award for the Enterprise Main-Test Series and was certified in the Endpoint Prevention & Response Test. It took a Certified Enterprise ATP Product Award for the Enterprise Advanced Threat Protection Test, a Certified Credential Dumping Protection Award, and a Certified Process Injection Protection Award.

For the Consumer Main-Test Series, Kaspersky was given Approved Security Product and Top-Rated Product Awards, having taken Advanced+ level in six out of seven tests, and Advanced for the remaining test. It additionally receives a Gold Award for Low False Positives, and Silver Awards for the Performance Test and Advanced Threat Protection Test.

Finally, Kaspersky achieved Approved Product Certifications for Mobile Security Test, Mac Security Test, Parental Control Test, Anti-Phishing Certification Test, and VPN Certification Test.