Kaspersky launches new anti-spam and anti-malware service called Kaspersky Hosted Security Services which targets the average companies.
As the senior technology consultant for Kaspersky David Em said that the vendor's anti-malware engine will be used to scan email. An antivirus engine and behavioural technology called Bithunt is included into the technology that can also put the suspicious messages in quarantine and identify subject-line terms.
Even though the company pretends the email-filtering system is based on its "own technology", a client who desires the services of another company, along with Kaspersky’s, is free to use the alternative.
The company said that it has a good explanation for the situation: all because of an economic slowdown of the antivirus market and of an economic growth registered on the hosted email services.
Kerstin Reiners, head of UK marketing for Kaspersky Lab, declared that "Kaspersky isn't feeling the pinch, but the antivirus market is becoming more and more commoditised" and that "IDC's hosted security figures are growing".
Thinking that the messaging security market could increase more that double, from $2bn in 2006, to $4.8bn in 2011, Kaspersky cited the IDC figures.
It doesn’t come as a surprise the fact that hosted security services are thinking to the small businesses because ISPs such as BT and security vendors as MessageLabs, Sophos and Websense did it before.
Reiners made clear that "We're focusing on [small to medium-sized businesses] with up to 50 users, and we're focusing on SMTP." And, in the same time, the company can’t be accused of "coming too late on the market", they learned a good lesson from the previous experience of others.
Germany, France and Russia are enjoying web filtering and instant messaging (IM) security services offered by Kaspersky. In April this year, the initial UK service which will cover only SMTP email, will have web filtering and IM services.
