About Kaspersky Lab

Some companies put on a big show, while others simply create great products. In any area of business only companies that are fully dedicated and remain focused on one thing achieve success. For us this means the battle against computer malware. For 12 years, we have worked on exposing, analyzing and neutralizing IT threats. Along the way, we have amassed a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge about malware and how to deal with it.

The company today

Kaspersky Lab is an international group that employs over 1300 highly-qualified specialists, has central offices in Moscow, as well as regional headquarters overseeing the activities of local representatives and partners in five global regions: Western Europe; Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa; North and South America; the Asia-Pacific region; and Japan. The company currently works in more than 100 countries across the globe. The company’s products provide protection for over 250 million users worldwide.

The group’s main decision-making body is the Board of Directors, responsible for setting out an overall development strategy and appointing senior management figures. The Board is made up of nine shareholders and top managers representing the central headquarters and global regions.

Unique experience and knowledge

In 2009 Kaspersky Lab celebrates its twelfth anniversary, though Eugene Kaspersky’s group of experts has been developing antivirus software for nearly twice as long. Undoubtedly, the company’s most valuable asset is the wealth of experience and knowledge it has gained in those years of combating viruses and other IT threats, enabling us to pre-empt trends in malware development. This helps us to remain one step ahead of the competition and provide our users with the most reliable protection from new types of attack.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Due to its high level of professionalism and dedication, Kaspersky Lab has become a market leader in the development of antivirus protection. The company’s main product, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, regularly receives top awards in tests conducted by respected international research centers and IT publications. Kaspersky Lab was the first to develop many technological standards in the antivirus industry, including full-scale solutions for Linux, Unix and NetWare, a new-generation heuristic analyzer designed to detect newly emerging viruses, effective protection against polymorphic and macro viruses, continuously updated antivirus databases and a technique for detecting viruses in archived files.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 is a new Kaspersky Lab product that provides complete protection of personal computers from all Internet threats. The solution includes HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System), an advanced application activity control technology which assigns security ratings to new, as yet unknown programs. It is the first antivirus product to include sandbox technology, which uses virtualization to provide a secure isolated execution environment for applications. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 also offers users the advantages of Kaspersky Security Network, an innovative distributed malware control system.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 is a product intended for advanced users. It includes proven antivirus technologies that provide effective protection to millions of users across the globe. The release of Series 2010 personal products is scheduled for June 2009 in Europe and for the third quarter of 2009 in other regions.

Kaspersky Mobile Security 8.0 is a user-friendly and reliable solution that protects mobile devices from network attacks, malware targeting mobile platforms and SMS spam. In the event that the smartphone is lost, the data in its memory also remains protected.

It is hard to imagine what the antivirus industry would be like today without the numerous technologies devised by Kaspersky Lab. This is reflected in many respected security software developers choosing the Kaspersky Anti-Virus engine to drive their own products, including Alcatel-Lucent (France), BlueCoat (USA), Checkpoint (USA), Juniper (USA), Microsoft (USA), Deerfield (USA), Alt-N (USA), Aladdin (Israel) and BorderWare (Canada).

Integrated security

When it comes to providing reliable protection against viruses, spam and hacker attacks, Kaspersky Lab has solutions for every customer. The company delivers a comprehensive range of products to protect home PC users and corporate networks from the increasingly complex, multifunctional malware systems that permeate the Internet.

Kaspersky Anti-Spam is designed to protect both users of company mail systems and Internet providers from unsolicited mass mailing or spam. It employs intelligent spam detection technology, which was developed using Kaspersky Lab’s extensive experience in protecting large-scale mail systems.

In 1999, Kaspersky Lab was the first to introduce integrated antivirus software for workstations, file servers and application servers running on Linux/FreeBSD operating systems. Today, the company offers a whole range of effective IT security solutions for the most popular Linux/FreeBSD systems, protecting both server and client applications.

Kaspersky Lab also offers a new range of IT security outsourcing services for corporations of any size. Kaspersky Hosted Email Security ensures that email threats – viruses, spam, hacker attacks, and phishing – are neutralized before they even reach a company’s servers. The Kaspersky Hosted Web Security service provides protection from IT threats that penetrate the corporate network via Internet gateways. Kaspersky Hosted IM Security protects instant messaging (IM) systems, as well as controlling the use of IM by employees.

Using the entire range of Kaspersky Lab products ensures an unprecedented level of protection from malware and other external threats.

Kaspersky Lab customers have access to a wide range of additional services to ensure the most effective operation of our products. The company releases antivirus database updates on an hourly basis and anti-spam database updates 12 to 24 times a day. We provide round-the-clock technical support in several languages (by telephone and email) and updates of antivirus and anti-spam databases virtually every hour of the day. We also design, deploy and support customized antivirus solutions and information security systems for corporate customers.

Customers

Although the majority of our corporate customers are small and medium size business, our clients include many large Russian and international governmental and commercial organizations.