SIMCommander K-SOC Boosts the New Kaspersky Proactive Defense Technology to a New Level of Prevention Against Today's Targeted Threats and Zero-day Malware

Deliver a complete solution for timely, reliable, and effective targeted threat and zero-day malware prevention

Source: SIMCommander

Date: 2009-10-15

Hong Kong, October 15, 2009 - SIMCommander, a leading security information and events management vendor, today announces the world first Malware Prevention and Reporting Suite - SIMCommander K-SOC that supports the new released Kaspersky corporate products together to offer your business a new level of protection from targeted threats and zero-day malware, which increases your business productivity with less time and effort.

The new Kaspersky Open Space Security Release 2 (KOSS R2) includes the latest version of Kaspersky Administration Kit 8.0 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstation and Servers that incorporates a new scan engine and unique proactive technology - Proactive Defense to protect against the latest malware threats for all customers. SIMCommander K-SOC adds additional layer of detection for KOSS R2 to prevent heavy impact on malware threats due to targeted threats, zero-day malware or policy mis-configurations. With the powerful reporting capability, SIMCommander K-SOC lets you easily reveal the current virus protection status and compare 3 months historical data for trend analysis.

To prevent a malware attacking to a computer, the best way is to ensure the antivirus protection availability to block any dangerous activities or files and make sure the virus database is kept current. K-SOC built-in Advanced Proactive Detection technology with the best practice prevention logic automatically finds out any problematic computers before they cause virus infection or outbreak. By using the K-SOC, you can ensure your antivirus protection on every endpoint effectively. At the same time, K-SOC also identifies targeted threats and zero-day malware to prevent any impact on the computers.

The following are some of prevention scenarios by K-SOC:

• Administration Kit Mis-configurations - when administrator wrongly configures a policy on virus database update source that caused the virus database update failed. K-SOC automatically notifies the administrator for the mis-configuration situation and escalates the severity level when several computers update fail events occurred for administrator to take immediate actions.

• Zero-day Malware - A user accesses a dangerous web site with malicious codes that by-passed the malware scanner and disabled the AntiVirus real-time protection. In this situation, K-SOC detects an abnormal sequence of "suspicious activities found" and "AntiVirus real-time protection disabled" occurred and notifies the administrator to take immediate action.

• Targeted Threats - An insider attacker installs a keylogger to a sales person computer to capture his username and password so that the attacker can login to the server to obtain a confidential tender document and sell to the competitor. K-SOC informs the administrator on the attempt of the targeted threat in the sales person computer. Hence, the administrator can resolve the threat to prevent any loss to the company.

K-SOC also comes with more than 100 reports targeting different audiences - executives, managers, technicians and auditors. K-SOC aggregates AntiVirus log data to store 3 months statistics for long term reporting. The following describes the strengths of the K-SOC reporting.

• All the reports can be accessed via the K-SOC console or the web-based Portal.

• Gain actionable visibility from the real-time dashboard with the current virus actions statistics, such as numbers of virus cleaned, deleted, quarantined or unable to be cleaned. Administrator can drill down from the dashboard to take immediate actions.

• The "Monthly Expert Report" illustrates the total antivirus protection status by KPI (Key Performance Indicator) to represent green (normal), yellow (warning) or red (critical) color in a gauge. This KPI assists executives and managers to reveal the protection level at-a-glance.

• The K-SOC comparison report compares 3 months virus protection statistics to provide the trend of the virus protection. Managers can review the AntiVirus posture by the historical data comparison to strengthen the overall posture against the latest malware threats.

• The K-SOC report generation method is very easy that is just as simple as 3 clicks to generate a report with the report format, time range and the sorting order.

SIMCommander K-SOC is now available for download.

About SIMCommander

SIMCommander is a privately held company founded by a team of security software veterans & developers to provide enterprises & service providers with solutions to manage security information effectively and efficiently. With 8 years solid experience on security event correlation research & development, SIMCommander is a leading developer of solution to manage, monitor, analysis, report and respond on security information for large enterprises, government institutions and service providers.