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Kaspersky Small Office Security is a small business antimalware product from Kaspersky Lab. Skip the queues with faster responses and direct access to security specialists when it matters most. Remove pre-existing infections with expert help before Kaspersky is installed on your business devices. Additional online offers and discounts may be available at the time of your renewal, which cannot be applied to your subscription. Kaspersky Small Office Security covers Android, iOS, macOS and Windows.

Current Version
21.24.8.522
Market
SMB
Licence
Paid
Price
USD 99 / annual
Record Created
2026-08-20
Last Updated
2026-10-10

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 →

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

Androidnative
iOSnative
macOSnative
Windowsnative

Target Market

SMB primary

Capabilities

Malware Detectionkeynative
Ransomware ProtectionkeyNot known
Behavioral DetectionkeyNot known
Web ProtectionkeyNot known
Email ProtectionNot known
Host FirewallNot known
Sandbox AnalysisNot known
Cloud-Assisted ScanningNot known
Heuristic DetectionNot known
Device ControlNot known
Vulnerability ShieldingNot known
Central Management ConsoleNot known

11 of 12 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummarySubscriptionnot statedyearlyUSD 99

Versions

  • 21.24.8.522Windows

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

At a glance — latest result per lab test

AV-TEST Antivirus Test

Tested: Windowslab report ↗

SE Labs Small Business Endpoint ProtectionAAA

2026-06-30lab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for Windows 11 - June 2026
Protection: 6Performance: 6Usability: 6
AV-TEST Antivirus TestTest antivirus software for Windows 11 - August 2026
Protection: 6Performance: 6Usability: 6
SE Labs Small Business Endpoint ProtectionSMB Endpoint Security 2026 Q2
AAAOverall 100Protection Accuracy: 100%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 100%
SE Labs Small Business Endpoint ProtectionSMB Endpoint Security 2026 Q1
AAAOverall 100Protection Accuracy: 100%Legitimate Accuracy: 100%Total Accuracy Rating: 100%

Certifications

OESIS Framework SupportSupported1 activeSupported
OPSWAT Certified Security ApplicationPlatinum1 activePlatinum

Change History

This record was created 2026-08-20. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-10-09Pricing plan addedPrice: USD 99 yearlyevidence
  • 2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Small Business Endpoint Protection result: AAAevidence
  • 2026-09-30Test result addedNew SE Labs Small Business Endpoint Protection result: AAAevidence
  • 2026-09-30Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Small Business Antimalwareevidence
  • 2026-09-22Product updatedListed in Home Antimalwareevidence
  • 2026-09-19Platform addedRuns on iOSevidence
  • 2026-09-19Platform addedRuns on Androidevidence
  • 2026-09-19Platform addedRuns on macOSevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedNo longer sold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedNo longer sold to: Consumerevidence
  • 2026-09-19Product updatedSold to: SMBevidence
  • 2026-09-09New versionNew version: 21.24.8.522 (Windows)evidence
  • 2026-09-04Product updatedListed in Network Firewallevidence
  • 2026-08-26Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-25Test result addedNew AV-TEST Antivirus Test resultevidence
  • 2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OESIS Framework Support (Supported)evidence
  • 2026-08-20Capability addedMalware Detection: built inevidence
  • 2026-08-20Pricing plan addedPrice: paidevidence
  • 2026-08-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-08-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Consumerevidence
  • 2026-08-20New versionNew version: 21.24.8.522evidence
  • 2026-08-20Platform addedRuns on Windowsevidence
  • 2026-08-20Certification addedCertified: OPSWAT Certified Security Application (Platinum)evidence
  • 2026-08-20Product createdNew product listedevidence

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