Today Kaspersky Lab is one of the fastest growing IT security vendors worldwide, operating in almost 200 countries and territories worldwide. In 2007 he was named Kaspersky Lab’s CEO. In 1997 Kaspersky Lab was founded, with Eugene heading the company’s antivirus research. Wishing to combine their successful track record of antivirus programming with their entrepreneurial vision, Eugene and his colleagues decided to establish their own independent company. Today the database is one of the most comprehensive and complete collections in cybersecurity, used in detecting and preventing systems from being infected by more than 500 million malicious programs.įurther pursuing his passion for defensive technologies, in 1990 Eugene started gathering a team of like-minded enthusiast researchers to create the AVP Toolkit Pro antivirus program, which four years later was recognized by the University of Hamburg as the most effective antivirus software in the world. This exotic collection of antivirus modules would eventually become the foundation for Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus database. After successfully removing the virus, Eugene’s curiosity and passion for computer technology drove him to start analyzing more malicious programs and developing disinfection modules for them. Eugene’s specialized education in cryptography helped him analyze the encrypted virus, understand its behavior, and then develop a removal tool for it. He is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held vendor of endpoint protection and cybersecurity solutions.Įugene began his career in cybersecurity accidentally when his computer became infected with the ‘Cascade’ virus in 1989. The ex-employees told Reuters that AVG, Microsoft, and Avast Software were among the companies targeted by Kaspersky Lab in campaigns between 20 to spread false positives through threat-information-sharing programs.Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and successful entrepreneur. Such actions are unethical, dishonest and illegal," the company said in a statement. "Kaspersky Lab has never conducted any secret campaign to trick competitors into generating false positives to damage their market standing. On Friday, it said the emails "may not be legitimate and were obtained from anonymous sources that have a hidden agenda." Kaspersky Lab has strongly denied the allegations. The emails shed fresh light on the allegations of two former Kaspersky Lab employees that the Moscow-based company had sought to sabotage rivals to gain market share and retaliate against competitors it believed were mimicking its malware detections instead of relying on their own research. It often indicates a user profile.Īn employee near screens in the virus lab at the headquarters of Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Labs in Moscow. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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