Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base

What is included in Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base?

Browser-based assessment – Runs in the browser on a desktop or tablet.
Three everyday scenarios – Open-plan office, business travel and home office settings.
Twelve random situations – Drawn per user from a library of 225 items.
Confidence-weighted scoring – Points depend on the answer and the stated confidence.
Administrator report – Scores, correct answers and confidence per topic and user.
Important – No training modules and no simulated phishing, assessment only.

What are the main benefits of Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base?

Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base is a cloud-hosted skills assessment from the Kaspersky Security Awareness family that employees run in a browser, with results collected centrally for the administrator. It is a base licence rather than a renewal, it requires no other Kaspersky product, and Kaspersky positions it ahead of the training stage in its awareness portfolio rather than as a replacement for it.

Short time commitment – Employees finish it in roughly ten to fifteen minutes.
Measured starting point – Gives IT and HR a baseline before buying training.
Cheat-resistant design – Scenario type and situations are assigned randomly per user.
Per-topic gaps – Shows which of the six domains needs attention first.
Immediate feedback – Every zone is explained with tips after completion.
Nothing to install – No agent, no server and no endpoint rollout.

Which company size is Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base suitable for?

The deciding factor is not headcount but whether you need documented, per-employee evidence that awareness was measured. A company with no IT department can run the assessment without a rollout project, because participants only need a browser and the administrator receives the results centrally.

Does Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base meet the requirements of Swiss cybersecurity legislation?

The reporting obligation under the revised Information Security Act applies to operators of critical infrastructure, not to every company, and it requires a significant cyberattack to be reported to the Federal Office for Cybersecurity (BACS) within 24 hours of discovery. Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base contributes nothing to that report itself: it does not detect attacks, does not generate incident data and produces no logs that would support a notification deadline. What it does deliver is documented evidence for the organisational side, namely a dated per-topic record of which employees were assessed and where their knowledge gaps sit, which is the kind of proof auditors ask for when they check whether personnel measures exist at all. It does not cover the technical measures the same legislation expects, so it belongs alongside endpoint protection, logging and an incident process rather than instead of them. No software makes a company compliant, because the obligation attaches to processes and to the organisation. This text is not legal advice; whether your company falls within the reporting obligation should be clarified with qualified legal counsel.

Does Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base meet the requirements of European cybersecurity legislation?

No product creates NIS 2 compliance, because the directive addresses the management of an organisation and the measures it puts in place. NIS 2 requires risk analysis and security policies, incident handling, business continuity, supply chain security, security in acquisition and development, procedures to assess the effectiveness of measures, basic cyber hygiene practices and cybersecurity training, cryptography, access control and asset management, and multi-factor authentication. Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base touches exactly two of these categories: it supports the cyber hygiene and training requirement by establishing what employees actually know across six domains, and it supports the effectiveness-assessment requirement because a repeated assessment produces a comparable score over time. It contributes nothing to incident handling, continuity, supply chain security, cryptography, access control or multi-factor authentication, and it does not deliver the training itself, only the measurement that should precede and follow it. Treat it as the measurement instrument for one measure category, not as coverage of the directive.

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What should you know about official assessments of Kaspersky?

Two official measures are relevant and both are still in force. The German Federal Office for Information Security has warned against the use of Kaspersky antivirus software since 15 March 2022, and confirmed in early 2026 that it maintains this warning; the warning explicitly concerns antivirus software and the deep system access such software holds, and the authority has no power to ban sales. The United States Department of Commerce issued a Final Determination in June 2024 that prohibited the sale of Kaspersky cybersecurity and antivirus products in the United States from 20 July 2024 and the supply of updates from 29 September 2024, after which Kaspersky closed its US operations. In Switzerland no comparable measure exists: the Federal Office for Cybersecurity states that it does not issue product recommendations and that no misuse of Kaspersky software in Switzerland has been reported to it, while confirming that federal offices no longer use the software. Kaspersky rejects the German warning as politically rather than technically motivated, has formally demanded its withdrawal and reserves the right to take legal steps, and points to its data processing infrastructure and Transparency Centre in Zurich. Independent testing laboratories have continued to test and certify Kaspersky protection products throughout this period. In practice this affects buyers in public sector tendering, buyers with US-linked entities or customers, and suppliers whose customers exclude Russian-origin software by policy; for those buyers the origin question decides the purchase regardless of the product, and it is worth noting that this particular product is a browser-based assessment with no agent and no privileged access to endpoints.

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Does Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base help with security questionnaires from large customers?

Partly, and only for one block of questions. It answers the items that ask whether employee security awareness is measured, which domains are covered, how results are documented and whether individual completion can be evidenced, because the administrator report holds scores, correct answers and confidence levels per topic and per user. It does not answer the items that most questionnaires weight more heavily: endpoint protection and detection, patch status, backup and restore testing, encryption of mobile devices, access control and multi-factor authentication, logging, incident response times and supplier management. It also does not answer the frequent question about whether recurring training is delivered, because the tool assesses and does not teach. Two further items usually need a separate answer: where assessment data is hosted, and whether a training programme follows the assessment. The cheaper route to close the training gap is to move up within the same family to Kaspersky Automated Security Awareness Platform rather than adding a second vendor, because that keeps one contract, one administrator and one set of results; the technical items in the questionnaire have to be answered by your endpoint and infrastructure tooling in any case.

What is the difference between Gamified Assessment Tool and Automated Security Awareness Platform?

The decisive difference is that the Gamified Assessment Tool measures and the Automated Security Awareness Platform teaches. GAT is a one-sitting assessment that produces a starting point, a score per domain and a certificate, and Kaspersky positions it in the engagement phase that precedes training. ASAP is the training platform in the same family and combines assessment with interactive learning modules, simulated phishing attacks and training for generalist IT staff. Buy GAT when you need to know where you stand or need to motivate employees before committing a training budget; buy ASAP when you already know that training is required and need the programme itself.

Which limitations should you know before buying?

The clearest regional limitation is the United States: the Commerce Department prohibition covers Kaspersky cybersecurity products and services supplied to US persons, so companies with US entities or US-based staff cannot roll this out across the whole workforce. The product protects no device, blocks no attack and monitors no mailbox, which is the single most common reason for a follow-up purchase, because buyers who wanted awareness plus protection still need endpoint software afterwards. The second most common follow-up purchase is the training itself, since the tool ends with a score and recommendations rather than a learning path. Kaspersky's published product material for this tool does not state where assessment results are hosted, which matters for Swiss and European buyers with data location requirements, so confirm the hosting region with the vendor before rollout. Employees also need a browser and a working internet connection at the moment of the assessment, which makes it unsuitable for offline production or field environments.

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Frequently asked questions about Kaspersky Gamified Assessment Tool Base

Is this the same as Kaspersky Interactive Protection Simulation?

No. Kaspersky Interactive Protection Simulation is a facilitated team game in which decision-makers respond to incidents in a simulated business, while the Gamified Assessment Tool is an individual online assessment in which one employee rates twelve situations. Several retail listings describe the Gamified Assessment Tool using the simulation wording, so check the description against Kaspersky's own product material before ordering.

Who sees the results of the assessment?

Each participant sees their own overall score, feedback per zone with explanations and tips, and a certificate that can be downloaded and shared. The administrator receives a report covering all users with results per topic, including scores, the number of correct answers and the confidence level.