Release Kaspersky Security Center 14.2

[Danila T.]

Kaspersky Security Center 14.2 has several new features and improvements:

• A new Hardening Guide was released. We highly recommend that you carefully read the guide and follow the security recommendations to configure Kaspersky Security Center and your network infrastructure.

  Also, please install the latest update to Kaspersky Security Center. This update includes infrastructure protection features such as two-step verification of user accounts and other improvements.

• Access to Kaspersky servers is now verified automatically. If access to the servers by using the system DNS is not possible, the application uses the public DNS.
• User rights on a virtual Administration Server are available for configuration any time, independently from the primary Administration Server. Also, you can assign primary Server users the rights to manage a virtual Server.
• Kaspersky Security Center now supports work with the following DBMSs:
  • PostgreSQL 13.x
  • PostgreSQL 14.x
  • Postgres Pro Standard 13.x
  • Postgres Pro Standard 14.x
  • Postgres Pro Certified 14.x
  • MariaDB 10.1, 10.4, 10.5
• You can use Kaspersky Security Center Web Console to export policies and tasks to a file, and then import the policies and tasks to Kaspersky Security Center Windows or Kaspersky Security Center Linux.
• The Do not use proxy server option has been removed from the following tasks:
  • Download updates to the Administration Server repository
  • Download updates to the repositories of distribution points
• To protect client devices in a cloud environment, you can deploy Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows instead of Kaspersky Security for Windows Server. This feature is now available after the release of Kaspersky Endpoint Security 12.0 for Windows.
• Work with the encryption keys is now limited by the access rights for the General features: Encryption Key Management functional area. Users of Kaspersky Security Center can now export encryption keys if they have the Read right, and can import encryption keys if they have the Write right.