ESET Launches Plug-in for Kaseya Virtual System Administrator

Plug-in enables new antimalware options for Kaseya users

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Sep 25, 2014, 01:00 ET

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ESET®, the global leader in proactive digital protection, today announced the general availability of the ESET Remote Administrator Plug-in for Kaseya^® Virtual System Administrator (VSA), the industry leading IT systems management platform. Integrating with Kaseya VSA 6.5, 7.0, and its latest version, Release 8, the ESET Remote Administrator Plug-in allows IT managers to use the familiar Kaseya interface to manage and maintain ESET Endpoint Antivirus and Endpoint Security deployments across distributed networks.

"This new plug-in for Kaseya VSA provides the option of managing ESET deployments from within the highly regarded Kaseya RMM environment," said Andrew Lee, CEO of ESET North America. "Controlling ESET's powerful, proactive malware detection using Kaseya's familiar console ensures user protections while also increasing IT efficiency and speeding deployments."

The ESET Remote Administrator Plug-in for Kaseya VSA gives administrators the ability to deploy antimalware configurations to endpoints with a variety of ESET clients installed, initiate scans and virus signature updates, view threat data and generate reports using the Kaseya Info Center. It is available at no additional charge for customers with an active license of any of the following ESET endpoint products: ESET Endpoint Antivirus, ESET Endpoint Security, and ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for both Mac OS X or Linux Desktop. It can also be used to manage and monitor select ESET Windows Server or Linux File Server Products.

"Kaseya VSA users have more antimalware options than ever before when it comes to protecting their computers, devices and files," said Ben Lavalley, Director of Product Management for Kaseya. "ESET is an excellent provider of threat detection and prevention and we are happy that this new plug-in makes it easier than ever for Kaseya customers to manage their ESET products from our platform."

In addition to robust scanning and reporting capabilities, the ESET Remote Administrator Plug-in for Kaseya VSA allows users to customize the dashboard with easy-to-read graphs and charts, and create Kaseya alerts based on pre-determined status updates. The plug-in also lets organizations define permissions for different user roles to allow or deny access to product settings.

To learn more about deploying best-in-class malware protection through the Kaseya environment, click here.

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