Scenario: Monitoring and reporting

This section provides a scenario for configuring the monitoring and reporting feature in Kaspersky Security Center.

Prerequisites

After you deploy Kaspersky Security Center in an organization's network you can start to monitor it and generate reports on its functioning.

Monitoring and reporting in an organization's network proceeds in stages:

1. Configuring the switching of device statuses

   Get acquainted with the settings for device statuses depending on specific conditions. By changing these settings, you can change the number of events with Critical or Warning importance levels. When configuring the switching of device statuses, be sure of the following:

   • New settings do not conflict with the information security policies of your organization.
   • You are able to react to important security events in your organization's network in a timely manner.
2. Configuring notifications about events on client devices

   How-to instructions:

   Configure notification (by email, by SMS, or by running an executable file) of events on client devices

3. Changing the response of your security network to the Virus outbreak event

   You can change the specific thresholds in the Administration Server properties. You can also create a stricter policy that will be activated or create a task that will be run at the occurrence of this event.

4. Performing recommended actions for Critical and Warning notifications

   How-to instructions:

   Perform recommended actions for your organization's network

5. Reviewing the security status of your organization's network

   How-to instructions:

   • Review the Protection status widget
   • Generate and review the Report on protection status
   • Generate and review the Report on errors
6. Locating client devices that are not protected

   How-to instructions:

   • Review the New devices widget
   • Generate and review the Report on protection deployment
7. Checking protection of client devices

   How-to instructions:

   • Generate and review reports from the Protection status and Threat statistics categories
   • Start and review the Critical event selection
8. Evaluating and limiting the event load on the database

   Information about events that occur during operation of managed applications is transferred from a client device and registered in the Administration Server database. To reduce the load on the Administration Server, evaluate and limit the maximum number of events that can be stored in the database.

   How-to instructions:

   • Calculation of database space
   • Limiting the maximum number of events
9. Reviewing license information

   How-to instructions:

   • Add the License key usage widget to the dashboard and review it
   • Generate and review the Report on usage of license keys

Results

Upon completion of the scenario, you are informed about protection of your organization's network and, thus, can plan actions for further protection.