Nextcloud incorporates Kaspersky antivirus security

mood · Aug 31, 2020

Nextcloud incorporates Kaspersky antivirus security
August 31, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nextcloud-incorporates-kaspersky-antivirus-security/

These days we almost all use personal Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds at work, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive.

That's where the open-source, private IaaS cloud software Nextcloud enters.
Now with Kaspersky Scan Engine added on, you make sure your files are free of malware before they're loaded into the cloud.

The integrated antivirus Scan Engine intercepts and blocks such potentially dangerous files as they're uploaded on the server-side. This makes sure malware isn't spread to other users.
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In NextCloud, customers can install the antivirus application from the program's app store. The free version comes with the open-source ClamAV virus scanning engine.

Large business customers, though, have been asking for a bigger and better security engine. So, in partnership with Kaspersky, you can now buy an on-premises Kaspersky Scan Engine and a special version of the Nextcloud antivirus app, which works hand in glove with the Scan Engine.

"The integration of Kaspersky anti-malware technology into Nextcloud," said Alexander Karpitsky, Kaspersky's head of Technology Alliances, "provides its customers with the certainty that files accessed through or downloaded from their content collaboration platform will be secure. [...]"
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Nextcloud: Nextcloud and Kaspersky partner up to protect users from malicious files

The cross-platform nature of Nextcloud, with clients on mobile and desktop operating systems, means users can unknowingly upload and share infected files that might not affect their device, or even intentionally try to spread them through a public Nextcloud instance. The integrated anti-virus scan will intercept and block the upload on the server side, making sure the file is not distributed to other users.
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