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Kaspersky Scan Engine

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Product

Detection engine licensed for integration into another application, available as a library or over HTTP and ICAP. Supported platforms are Linux and Windows. It is recorded as supporting api integration, archive extraction, icap / gateway integration and object storage scanning. Its record also notes threat intelligence and true file type verification. The stated market is Enterprise.

Current Version
2.2
Product Page
kaspersky.com/scan-engine
Market
Enterprise
Licence
Paid
Price
Quote
Record Created
2026-10-05
Last Updated
2026-10-28

Vendor

Kaspersky was founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, who had been writing antivirus code since 1989, after finding the Cascade virus on his own work machine. It is privately held — unusually for a vendor of its size it has never listed or been acquired — and employs more than 6,000 people across some 30 offices, with its European headquarters in Zurich. Home users buy three tiers: Kaspersky Standard, Kaspersky Plus and Kaspersky Premium, with Kaspersky Safe Kids, Kaspersky VPN and Kaspersky Password Manager sold separately. Businesses start at Kaspersky Small Office Security and move up the Kaspersky Next line — Kaspersky Next EDR Foundations, Kaspersky Next EDR Optimum and Kaspersky Next XDR Optimum, up to Kaspersky Next XDR Expert — with Kaspersky MDR as the managed service above them. Two things are worth knowing before comparing its results with anyone else's. Its research team, GReAT, is among the industry's most prolific publishers of state-actor malware analysis. And in June 2024 the US Department of Commerce prohibited the sale of Kaspersky software in the United States, and US customers were migrated to another vendor's product; the company continues to sell elsewhere and to enter the European public test cycles, which is where its results in this index come from. Vendor page →

Website
kaspersky.com
Country
Russia
Headquarters
Moscow, Russia
Year Established
1997
Customers
200K organisations
Users
400M users
Revenue
$836.0M (2025)

Government restrictions

Banned or sanctioned

Sale in the US prohibited since 2024; Entity List; FCC Covered List; banned from US federal systems; sanctioned in Poland; official warnings in DE, UK, IT, LT, NL.

WhereMeasureDateEffect
USCommerce (BIS) final determination2024-06-24No sale or updates in the US or to US persons (wind-down ended 2024-09-29).
USEntity List2024-06-24Export licence needed, presumption of denial.
USTreasury sanctions on 12 executives2024-06-21Executives designated; the company is not.
USFCC Covered List2022-03-25No federal subsidy (USF) money for its products.
USNDAA FY2018 §1634 / DHS BOD 17-012017Banned from US federal systems.
PLNational sanctions list2022-04-26Asset freeze on AO Kaspersky Lab and its Polish entities.
ITDecree-Law 21/2022 art. 292022-03-21Public administrations must move off Russian security products.
DEBSI warning (§7 BSIG)2022-03-15Official advice to replace Kaspersky antivirus; not a legal ban.
UKNCSC guidance2022-03Reconsider reliance on Russian-controlled technology; not a ban.

A sales ban, asset freeze, export ban or federal procurement ban that names the company itself. Each measure above names Kaspersky Lab, not this product specifically, and applies only where it says. CSI records what a government has published and links to it; this is not an assessment of the product, and the product stays listed so the record can be read. Lists were last checked on 2026-10-09.

Platforms

Linuxnative
Windowsnative

Target Market

Enterprise primary

Capabilities

Multi-Engine ScanningkeyNot known
Archive Extractionkeynative
True File Type Verificationkeynative
Password-Protected Archive HandlingNot known
Hash Reputation LookupNot known
Content Disarm & ReconstructionkeyNot known
Sandbox AnalysisNot known
Threat Intelligencenative
File-Based Vulnerability AssessmentNot known
File Structure ValidationNot known
DLP IntegrationNot known
API Integrationkeynative
ICAP / Gateway Integrationkeynative
Object Storage Scanningkeynative
Managed Upload PortalNot known
Central Management ConsoleNot known

10 of 16 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Specifications

Scanning Engines1 engineestimated by LLM: not disclosed by the vendor

2 other specifications for this category not yet known.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummaryPrice on requestnot statedno recurring chargeQuote

Versions

  • 2.2platform not recordedreleased 2026-03-31

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

Not tested This product does not appear in any test run CSI holds. That is not a low score.

Certifications

Not known

Change History

This record was created 2026-10-05. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-10-28New versionNew version: 2.2evidence
  • 2026-10-09Capability addedThreat Intelligence: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-08New versionNew version: 2.1evidence
  • 2026-10-08Capability addedTrue File Type Verification: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-06Pricing plan addedPrice: price on requestevidence
  • 2026-10-06Product updatedSold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-10-05Capability addedArchive Extraction: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-05Capability addedObject Storage Scanning: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-05Capability addedICAP / Gateway Integration: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-05Capability addedAPI Integration: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-05Platform addedRuns on Linuxevidence
  • 2026-10-05Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
  • 2026-10-05Product createdNew product, listed in Malware File Scannerevidence
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