Kaspersky Crystal

Kaspersky Lab presented in April, 2012 at the Russian market the new version of Kaspersky CRYSTAL, a product for home users which provides the maximum level of protection against information threats. The solution gives to users the chance to keep the digital world in crystal purity, to generate and store difficult passwords, to cipher and create backup copies of data and also to preserve children against an inappropriate content in Network. To a product yield Kaspersky Lab starts a special action: purchasing Kaspersky CRYSTAL, the Russian users will be able to protect not only the PCs, but also tablets based on Android OS.

According to a research of Kaspersky Lab, about 20% of households in Russia have two and more desktops, and 17% of respondents have two and more notebooks in family. Not only adults, but also children and teenagers use all these devices. Modern cybercriminals dexterously apply activity of users of electronic devices in the mercenary purposes. Daily there are more than 2.5 million web attacks. Sophisticated methods of social engineering, such as phishing, allow malefactors to find out at users their passwords to online services. Uncontrolled use of the Internet by children leads to the fact that they visit the sites with an inappropriate content more than 800 thousand times in day [ii]. In the modern dynamic world the user needs protection which will provide complete tranquility for its digital space. The updated solution of Kaspersky Lab belongs to such type of protective packets.

For the first time Kaspersky CRYSTAL was provided in April, 2010. The version of 2012 is significantly upgraded. The solution provides an advanced comprehensive protection from viruses, spyware, the Trojan programs, spam, the hacker attacks, worms, keyloggers, rootkits, bots, a phishing, etc. Automatic updates do not prevent work and minimum consume computer resources. In Kaspersky CRYSTAL hybrid protection is applied: a combination of traditional signature methods of identification of threats and the latest cloud computing which allow to react quicker and more effectively to the difficult, constantly developing threats.

In the solution Kaspersky CRYSTAL the most full range of protective functions among products of Kaspersky Lab for home users is implemented. One of unique features of a product is password management. "Password manager" allows to create passwords, reliable, steady against cracking, to provide their safe storage and it is easy to manage them. The module significantly saves the user's time, autocompleting registration forms and authorizations.

Safe storage and transfer of valuable information it is possible about the help of function of data encryption in Kaspersky CRYSTAL. Information is ciphered in special the file container, access to which is password-protected. Thus, it becomes unavailable to hackers and swindlers.

Backup and data recovery which will ensure safety of valuable files even in case of breakdown of the computer, failure of the hard drive, etc. belongs to one more unique feature of a product. Backup copies can remain according to the schedule set by the user on the hard drive, the removable medium, the FTP server or in other network storage, and access to such copies is password-protected.

Kaspersky CRYSTAL is also the only user product of Kaspersky Lab with function of centralized operation by security of all computers in the house – "Control of a home network". This module allows to check the status of protection of all computers of a home network and to update on them anti-virus bases from one PC and also to manage settings of "Parent control" on computers of children.

In the updated solution a number of functions for verification of files and websites, for example, "The safe environment" and "Monitoring of a system" significantly is optimized. Also in Kaspersky CRYSTAL the new technology "Check of Reputation of Files" which allows to receive data on security of the file prior to work with it is implemented. And at last, in a product the module "Verifications of Links" is used. This function which is built in the browser toolbar marks with the color indicator of the link to the infected or harmful (phishing) resources in results of issue of search systems. Besides, the module "Parental control" using which adults can control communication of the children on the Internet was improved, and its interface became more intuitive.