From 65438 to 0989, Eugene Kaspersky began to study the phenomenon of computer viruses. From 199 1 to 1997, he led a group of assistants to develop AVP antivirus programs in the information technology center of KAMI, a large Russian computer company. Kaspersky Lab was founded in 1997, with Eugene Kaspersky as one of the founders.
In June 2000, AVP was renamed kaspersky anti-virus Software. Eugene Kaspersky is a member of Computer Anti-Virus Researchers Association (CARO), whose members are all top international anti-virus experts. AVP's anti-virus engine and virus database have always been praised by the industry for their rigorous structure and thorough killing ability. The reason why Russian anti-virus software is very powerful is that Russia has international top special talents and fine traditions in the field of mathematics and technology. The training of these professionals will not be successful in three or two years.
Kaspersky lab
Research, develop, produce and sell information security solutions to protect users from IT threats and enable enterprises to control risks. Our products protect the information of individual users and enterprise users from viruses, hackers and spam, and provide consulting services and technical support.
Kaspersky Lab, founded in 1997, is an international information security software provider. Headquartered in Moscow, Russia, Kaspersky Lab has branches in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Japan, China, South Korea, Romania and the United States, with more than 500 global partners and a network covering all parts of the world.
Kaspersky Lab's products have passed the certification of West Coast Lab, and continuously won awards from major IT publications and testing labs around the world. In 2003, we obtained the qualification of Microsoft Security Solutions Gold Partner. Kaspersky Lab is also an honorary partner of SUSE and Red Hat. Experts from Kaspersky Lab are active in various IT organizations, such as CARO (Computer Virus Research Organization) and ICSA (International Computer Security Association).
Antivirus expert
The virus lab analysis team led by Eugene Kaspersky, Costin Raiu and Marc Blanchard has more than ten years of experience in the anti-virus field, and can predict the trend and direction of data security. For example, we first developed heuristic virus analysis and language analysis. These inventions make Kaspersky's products lead the development trend of anti-virus market today.
Development history
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The history of "Kaspersky Lab" began at 1989, when the founder of the company, Mr. Eugene Kaspersky, first encountered the computer virus problem, and then developed the first version of kaspersky anti-virus products.
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From 199 1 to 1997, Kaspersky Lab is the anti-virus department of Kami, a large Russian computer company. At that time, AVP was used as the product name. 1994, under the leadership of Natalya Kaspersky, a professional management and development team was gradually formed, and Russia began to develop. At the same time, we have signed agreements with foreign anti-virus manufacturers such as Finland's F-Secure, Germany's G-Date and Japan's Vintage Solutions to use Kaspersky AV core modules in their products.
Independent private holding company "Kaspersky Lab"
Kaspersky Lab was formally established in June, 1997. Natalya Kaspersky has been the general manager, and Eugene Kaspersky is mainly responsible for anti-virus research. The company's main task is to develop and improve software to protect computers and computer networks from computer viruses. The main products such as AVP silver, AVP gold and AVP platinum are quickly praised by users at home and abroad.
Due to the reliability of products and the use of innovative technological achievements, Kaspersky Lab became the main anti-virus software provider in Russia from 65438 to 0999.
Change brands, change production lines and expand business.
In 2000, Kaspersky Lab announced that its anti-virus solution would use the new trademark Kaspersky AV instead of AVP (Anti-virus Toolkit Professional Edition). Kaspersky Lab series products are registered with umbrella-shaped graphic signs.
200 1 Due to the rapid development of Internet and other communication means, Kaspersky Lab has developed a new production line, which can fully meet the needs of users for new data protection. The company provides different products and solutions for stand-alone users, small and medium-sized enterprise users and large enterprise users. The classification of products has also made Kaspersky Lab get rich returns, with its sales volume doubling and its market share increasing from 5% to 60% in five years.
While perfecting its own anti-virus products, the company began to develop new projects-information security system, and expanded product categories: firewall and content filtering products.
In April 2002, Kaspersky Lab launched a self-developed personal firewall test version. Enterprise products of network shielding and content filtering will be released in the near future.
In the same year, Kaspersky Lab authorized American companies such as Aladdin, Sybari, Deerfield and Itamigo to use kaspersky anti-virus technology in their products.
Kaspersky Lab today
Kaspersky Lab is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, and has branches in Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Japan, China, South Korea, Romania and the United States, actively developing its own cooperation system in Russia and the international market.
In order to meet the needs of modern information security protection, the company provides users with a complete set of information security protection solutions, including system detection, development, implementation and maintenance.
Kaspersky Lab's stand-alone products use the same technology as commercial products, but the operation is very simple, which makes it highly reliable and competitive in the same level of products.
In order to meet the needs of users to the greatest extent, Kaspersky Lab constantly develops and improves its own solutions and always maintains the leading position in the anti-virus industry. Kaspersky Lab can quickly respond to new viruses; Strive to improve and develop new products and provide customers with the most advanced information protection system.
Kaspersky virus laboratory
Kaspersky's virus analysts and product developers are a multinational team. They constantly obtain information, evaluate new threats, and design new applications around the world for internal use and release to users. 10 years' experience ensures an efficient and rapid response to new threats, and can provide users with virus removal tools and information in the most timely manner, and fight against various threats professionally and dynamically.
More than 200,000 virus samples
Kaspersky's virus database is one of the largest virus databases in the world, with more than 200,000 virus samples. Many of our virus analysts are well-known experts in computer virology, who often attend international information security conferences and publish monographs.
Virus analyst
Eugene Kaspersky (Director of Anti-virus Research Department)
Eugene Kaspersky was born in Novorossiysk, Russia. Graduated from Cryptography College-majoring in Telecommunications and Computer Science, and worked in a comprehensive research institute 199 1 year. Eugene began to study computer viruses on 1989 after his computer was detected with cascading virus. From 199 1 to 1997, I worked in Kami Information Technology Center and developed "AVP" anti-virus scheme with the help of a group of assistants (renamed kaspersky anti-virus Software +0 1 in June 2000).
1997 Kaspersky Lab Co., Ltd. was established, and Eugene Kaspersky was one of the founders. Eugene Kaspersky is now one of the top experts in the field of international information security, and has published a lot of articles and comments on the problems covered by computer virology at many professional conferences around the world. Eugene is a member of the Computer Anti-Virus Research Organization (CARO) composed of top international anti-virus experts.
Mark blanchard (Director of Kaspersky European Anti-virus Research Center)
Marc Blanchard is in charge of the European Anti-virus Research Center, which is responsible for monitoring the computer virus epidemic in Europe in real time and guiding the research of anti-virus technology. As the director of the European Center, Marc is also responsible for developing and managing the technical support network in France.
Marc invented anti-suspicious program technology in 1986 and began to engage in IT threat analysis. He is one of the most famous computer virus experts in Europe. Since then, he has served as the director of European research department of Central Point software company, and is the core figure in establishing the French computer virus research center, and has published many books. Many of his works are now used to train anti-virus professionals, and he himself is still actively training a new generation of anti-virus talents.
Shane Coursen, Senior Technical Consultant of Kaspersky Lab (USA)
Shane entered the field of virus research on 1992. From 65438 to 0996, he held a senior position in the field of virus research, published articles related to the industry and attended anti-virus conferences at home and abroad. Shane served as CEO and board member of Joe Wells WildList from 1996 until the company moved to ICSA in July 2002.
Before Shane joined Kaspersky Lab from June, 5438 to October, 2005, he was a senior anti-virus analyst at Fortinet, Inc., and also held senior analyst positions at Trend Micro, Network Associates and Dr. Solomon's Software. Before joining Dr. Solomon Software Company, he was a software engineer in Symantec Group.
David ngel M, Technical Consultant of Kaspersky Lab (UK)
David joined Kaspersky Lab in April 2004. He provides information about viruses and other security threats through conference presentations, exhibitions and broadcast media. At the same time, it provides the product and technical information of Kaspersky Lab. David has worked in the field of network security for more than 14 years, and has developed in-depth solutions for individuals and business users to deal with constantly updated viruses, worms and other malicious programs.
David 1990 joined Professor Solomon's software and held several positions, including: technical support manager and senior technical consultant. During this period, he was responsible for the establishment and operation of Professor Solomon's technical support department, and closely participated in customer seminars and technical training, including Professor Solomon's live virus seminar. Subsequently, David worked as a system engineer and product manager in Semintek, and joined the product marketing team on 200 1 and 1, responsible for strategic marketing guidance, product positioning and forecasting information of McAfee AVERT, scanning engine and gateway equipment.
Aleks Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst, Kaspersky Lab
Aleks 1994 became interested in the anti-virus struggle, when his company installed anti-virus programs for the first time. He began to collect virus samples and help his friends clean the virus from their computers. In the long run, he discovered new malicious programs that were not discovered by anti-virus companies and sent them to Eugene Kaspersky because he liked the high detection rate of Eugene Kaspersky's solutions. 1996, Alexander set up anti-virus centers in Komi and China, and began to release information about new viruses. He also provides consulting services and publishes information to help colleagues fight malicious programs.
1998 launched the Wildlist Russia project, with the goal of collecting and analyzing information on the virus epidemic situation in the Russian Federation and China, and alex was the coordinator of the project. Alex joined Kaspersky Lab in 2002. His duties include analyzing malware and detecting new viruses. At the same time, he also participated in other studies and published his analysis on websites and news.
Magnus Kalkuhl Kaspersky lab (Germany) virus analysis expert
Magnus Kalkuhl was born in Copenhagen and started to work in IT industry from 65438 to 0996. He used to be an independent IT security consultant and technical director in the communication department of McCann Erickson, a large advertising company.
Magnus works in the office of Kaspersky Lab (Germany). He will focus on IT debate and research, and monitor malicious programs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Kaspersky Lab virus analyst Yuri Marschewski.
Yuri Marschewski was born in Smolensk, and 1998 graduated from Moscow Institute of Energy (Technical University) in Smolensk. Because of his thesis on information security, he received his doctorate from Moscow University of Energy in May 2004.
Before joining Kaspersky Lab in 2003, he worked as an information security system developer in a small IT company in Moscow, focusing on preventing information from being stolen. At work, he became interested in virus analysis.
Director of R&D Department of Costin Raiu Kaspersky Laboratory (Romania)
Costin Raiu has been engaged in anti-virus research and anti-virus technology development for more than 9 years. He is a member of the virus bulletin technical advisory Committee and CARO. Costin also provides virus incident reports to international wild list organizations, and has written and published a large number of books on data security and computer viruses.
From 65438 to 0994, Costin joined GeCAD s.r.l and served as the chief researcher and data security expert in Romanian anti-virus (RAV) group, responsible for product development. Costin joined Kaspersky in 2000 and devoted himself to developing new anti-virus technology, data security and real-time monitoring research.
Roel Schouwenberg, Senior Research Engineer of Kaspersky Lab (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg Economic Union)
Raul was born in St. Odilinburg, the Netherlands. He is very interested in information security. When his anti-virus scheme failed, his interest became stronger and stronger, and his observation and research on viruses and anti-viruses became closer. This interest soon turned into passion.
Joined Kaspersky Lab in 2004, responsible for monitoring local malicious programs, preliminary analysis of malicious programs and development of new virus solutions.