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Kaspersky Lab Overview: our values,
business, solutions and services
Kaspersky Lab Overview: our values, business, solutions and services
“We believe that everyone – from home computer users and small companies to large corporations
and governments – has the right to be free from cybersecurity fears. We have therefore made it
our mission to provide the world’s most effective, responsive and efficient protection against
cyberthreats: those from malware, spam, hackers, DDoS attacks, sophisticated cyber-espionage
tools, and cyberweapons that target countries’ critical infrastructure with potentially catastrophic
consequences. We’re here to protect our users from them all.”
Eugene Kaspersky, chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab
Cyberthreat landscape
Cyberthreats have become a global problem that spreads far beyond any geographical borders. The
rise of advanced persistent threats (APTs) has transformed the state of the global cyberthreat
landscape, putting critical industrial infrastructure, finance, telecommunications, transportation,
research institutes, military contractors and governmental networks worldwide at great risk. To
fulfill its mission, Kaspersky Lab is determined to detect and neutralize all forms of malicious
programs, regardless of their origin or purpose. There is no such thing as "right" or "wrong" malware
for us. The company is committed to protecting all computer users around the globe. This protection
is available to individuals and organizations, from governments and large enterprises to home
users.
Kaspersky Lab global scale
Today Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions,
with a holding registered in the United Kingdom. Since its inception, Kaspersky Lab has followed a
global vision and focused on international markets. This strategy helped the company to grow into
a global corporation.
Kaspersky Lab is one of the fastest growing IT security vendors in the world.i The company was
founded in 1997 and today it is an international group operating in almost 200 countries and
territories worldwide. It has 34 representative territory offices in 31 countries across 5 continents.
Kaspersky Lab has a corporate client base of more than 270,000 companies located around the
globe, ranging from small and medium-sized businesses all the way up to large governmental and
commercial organizations. Over 400 million people worldwide are protected by Kaspersky Lab
products and technologies.
Kaspersky Lab currently employs more than 3,000 highly qualified specialists and this number is
growing by about 7% each year.
Kaspersky Lab is named a ‘Leader’ in endpoint protection by the ‘big three’ analytic agencies
(Gartnerii, IDCiii and Forresteriv). Firmly positioned as one of the top four leading vendors of security
solutions for endpoint usersv, Kaspersky Lab continues to improve its market position.
According to the company’s 2014 unaudited financial results, Kaspersky Lab’s global revenue grew
by 7% compared to the previous year and reached $771 million. Kaspersky Lab delivered growth
in the corporate IT security segment – 1% in US Dollars and 7% in local currencies (Euro, Dollar,
Yen, Ruble). The most important part of the B2B segment: the enterprise segment, showed a 7%
increase in USD and 16% in local currencies (non-audited revenue growth 2014 vs. 2013).
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Kaspersky Lab has about 120 global technology OEM and pre-installation agreements with
companies including Microsoft, Cisco Meraki, Juniper Networks, Alcatel Lucent, Blue Coat, Check
Point, D-Link, Clearswift, Netgear, ZyXel, Alt-N, Parallels, Lenovo, Facebook, Qualcomm, BAE
Systems, H3C, Trustwave, Vertu, ASUS, Samsung, Toshiba, Stormshield, Amazon Web Services,
Openwave Messaging and General Dynamics. The company’s client list includes big names such
as Ferrari, Strabag, Telefonica, etc.
In February 2014 Kaspersky Lab announced the establishment of its International Advisory Board,
gathering world-known cybersecurity experts to provide the company with strategic advice on the
IT security market. The Advisory Board brings together seven internationally recognized experts in
IT security from the industry, the public sector and academia. They will provide practical guidance,
insights and validation of the strategic plans and priority business development areas of the
company.
Howard A. Schmidt, former Cyber Advisor to both President Bush and President Obama, serves as
the chairman of the International Advisory Board and is joined by Bruce Schneier, Jae-Woo Lee,
Latha Reddy, Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Norbert Pohlmann and Whitfield Diffie. The Board
members have years of experience in situations where the IT security industry connects with
government, international and national cyber strategy policy makers, and academia. They bring
unparalleled expertise and guidance to Kaspersky Lab.
Unique experience and knowledge
The company’s most valuable asset is the wealth of expertise it has gained in its years of combating
major IT threats. This helps the company to remain one step ahead of the competition and provide
its users with the most reliable protection against new types of cyberattacks.
Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team
Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) was established in 2008 and
provides leading anti-threat intelligence, research and innovation, internally and externally.
Nowadays this elite group of world-leading security experts is active all over the world. The GReAT
team actively participates in joint investigations of cyber-warfare operations involving cyberespionage and cyber-sabotage malware. Kaspersky Lab research team discovered and dissected
the most sophisticated threats like Flame, Gauss, miniFlame, RedOctober, NetTraveler, Icefog,
Careto/The Mask, Darkhotel, Regin, Cloud Atlas, Carbanak etc.
Cooperation with law enforcement agencies and international organizations
It works together with the global IT security community, international organizations, national and
regional law enforcement agencies (e.g. INTERPOL, Europol, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, The
National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) of the Netherlands’ Police Agency and The City of London
Police), as well as Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) worldwide. During investigations,
Kaspersky Lab’s security experts provide technical expertise and focus their research on analyzing
malware.
Kaspersky Lab has supported INTERPOL’s launch of a new Digital Forensics Laboratory as part of
the Digital Crime Center at the Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in Singapore. The Digital
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Forensics Laboratory is responsible for carrying out the technical part of INTERPOL’s investigations
into cyber-incidents. It will use cutting-edge techniques and software to analyze malware,
identifying and presenting evidence of illegal actions to help prosecute criminals.
Kaspersky Lab also takes part in joint cyberthreat investigations with companies and organizations
including Adobe, AlienVault Labs, Dell Secureworks, Crowdstrike, OpenDNS Security Research
Team, GoDaddy Network Abuse Department, Seculert, SurfNET, Kyrus Tech Inc. and Honeynet
Project.
Moreover, Kaspersky Lab has successfully trained Europol and City of London Police employees
and is very excited about extending its partnerships against cybercrime.
In addition, Eugene Kaspersky participates in The Advisory Group on Internet Security of the
Program Board of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and an Advisory Board of the Council on
CyberSecurity, providing his expertise and guidance on cybersecurity. He has also been invited to
speak at different events, e.g. the World Economic Forum, INTERPOL assemblies, Samsung
conference.
Kaspersky Lab believes that joint efforts are the most effective way of fighting cybercriminals. It
openly shares its knowledge and technical findings with the world’s security community and
publishes its research to a wider audience to encourage collaborative security practices and
increased international cooperation.
Kaspersky Lab’s solutions and services
Kaspersky Lab’s security solutions are not only built to address today’s problems, but also to
anticipate and prevent tomorrow’s. The company develops innovative technologies that address
market-specific needs such as excellent protection levels, adaptability to changing circumstances,
scalability, compatibility with different platforms, high performance, superior fault tolerance, ease
of use and high efficiency. From their inception Kaspersky Lab’s solutions are developed in-house,
harnessing all the advantages of the company's extensive and predictive security expertise and
intelligence. The portfolio of security solutions is complemented by a range of intelligence services,
ensuring that the company’s customers are better protected and more informed.
In support of the development of its innovative technologies and products Kaspersky Lab heavily
invests in R&D to ensure the delivery of the best security expertise. One third of Kaspersky Lab’s
employees are R&D specialists. Kaspersky Lab continues to obtain more and more patents for its
cutting-edge digital security technologies. As of early December 2014 Kaspersky Lab’s portfolio
included 298 patents issued in the US, Russia, the EU and China. In addition to that, 295 patent
applications are currently under consideration by patent authorities in these countries.
Solutions and services for the Enterprise and SMB
Kaspersky Security System is a dedicated solution designed to ensure the safety of information
systems that demand enhanced security. It is available as an embeddable OEM component to
manufacturers and vendors of comprehensive IT solutions. Examples of such solutions include ERP
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and electronic document management systems, smart grids, the Internet of Things or even critical
infrastructure. Kaspersky Security System’s key features include its ability to apply access control
rules according to given security policy, classify the informational resources and configure the
interaction of the components.
Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is a platform that offers a broad array of tools and
technologies to enable companies to see, control and protect all endpoint devices. It combines its
technologies and tools into four tiers, each of which adds its own layer of protection against
cyberthreats. The first level – Core – contains our award-winning anti-malware technologies. Next
come the Select and Advanced tiers, offering modern endpoint control and encryption. Finally, Total
level security provides the best protection for each area of the network – web, mail and
collaboration servers alike. At every level Kaspersky Security Network provides powerful cloudassisted protection to every component, and Kaspersky Security Center tools help IT specialists to
manage the whole company’s IT defenses from a single console.
Kaspersky Security Center allows organizations to implement a flexible, scalable security solution
management model. It can operate on networks of any size, from a small group of machines to a
complex distributed network. Easy to install, and time-efficient to manage, protection system
management with Kaspersky Security Center minimizes the total cost of ownership of any
Kaspersky Lab security solution.
There are also a number of targeted security solutions that can be added to any tier of the
Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business suite or used as stand-alone products to ensure peace
of mind in certain specific areas:
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Kaspersky Security for File Server
Kaspersky Security for Mobile
Kaspersky Systems Management
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Storage
Kaspersky Security for Collaboration
Kaspersky Security for Mail Server
Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is a flexible solution which delivers both protection and
performance for virtualized environments, addressing a hitherto under-served segment of the IT
security market. The solution includes application, device and web controls, vulnerability
monitoring, antivirus protection for instant messaging, mail and web, plus advanced heuristics. The
result is powerful, multi-layered security combined with efficient performance for all major virtual
environments: VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Xen.
Kaspersky Fraud Prevention has been specifically developed to deliver multi-layered security for
online and mobile banking. In addition to safeguarding customer Windows and OS X endpoints from
financial threats, the Kaspersky Fraud Prevention SDK component allows banks and payment
systems to develop their own secure applications for Android, iOS devices and Windows Phone.
Kaspersky DDoS Protection is the solution able to protect online services from DDoS attacks of any
size and complexity. It combines traffic filtration on the provider side, the use of specialized
cleaning centers with flexible filters and Kaspersky Lab’s DDoS Intelligence.
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Intelligence services
CyberSecurity Education – a set of programs that provide companies’ security departments with
unique hands-on experience of the most recently discovered malware and attacks. They use reallife examples to help develop forensic investigation and malware analysis skills.
Threat Data Feeds – feeds of raw data on cyberthreats designed to provide an early warning for
government authorities, security service providers and telecoms operators to raise protection by
blocking malware at the infrastructure level. The feeds are taken from Kaspersky Security Network.
Botnet Threat Tracking – a service allowing security service providers and financial companies to
monitor botnet activity aimed against users of particular online services, and preventing this threat
via daily email notifications tailored for your individual company needs.
Intelligence Reports – a subscription service that allows security service providers and financial
companies to respond to regional variations in threats facing their organization, based on Global
Research and Analysis Team intelligence and other internal sources.
Looking to the future, Kaspersky Lab is also searching for new growth opportunities in enterprise
security, especially in the area of critical and industrial infrastructure protection which requires
technologies and products that fit the specific needs of industrial networks.
Products for the very small business
Kaspersky Small Office Security is designed with small businesses in mind to provide effective
protection against all types of cyberthreats. It is easy to install and use without special IT security
management skills. Sensible default settings let you protect all your systems effortlessly, giving you
the peace of mind to focus on running your business without worrying about security.
Consumer products
Kaspersky Total Security — Multi Device is one single product – with just one license – delivering
the ultimate in security for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS devices and Windows Phone. It maintains
an extensive arsenal of security instruments to protect nearly every aspect of users’ digital lives:
their privacy, finances, identity, photos and files, as well as protecting their kids against Internet
threats.
Kaspersky Internet Security – Multi-Device is a one-license security solution to protect users’ digital
assets on PCs, Macs and Android smartphones and tablets. With award-winning Kaspersky Lab
technologies, it delivers security that is optimized for each device, providing real-time protection
against Internet threats.
Kaspersky Internet Security, the company’s flagship product for home users, delivers premium PC
protection against Internet threats and ensures the security of your privacy, digital identity, money
and kids online.
Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac ensures users and their children are always safe online with
advanced, real-time protection against malware, network attacks and dangerous websites, as well
as safeguarding online financial transactions.
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Kaspersky Internet Security for Android delivers premium protection for Android smartphones and
tablets, protecting them and the data stored on them against theft, loss, malware and other Internet
threats.
There is also a number of free security solutions for different platforms available on
http://free.kaspersky.com/
Global Brand Initiatives
Since 2010 Kaspersky Lab has been an official sponsor of the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One racing
team, which also chose Kaspersky Lab as a strong technological partner with a complete, cutting
edge IT security solution. The ideologies of the two companies, Kaspersky Lab and Ferrari, have
much in common – we are both up against tough competition and commit everything we have to
our technological leadership in order to stay ahead. Since 2012 Kaspersky Lab’s Logo has featured
on Ferrari’s Formula One car nose cones and sides, as well as the drivers’ overalls and team
uniform.
Along with Ferrari Sponsorship, Kaspersky Lab also sponsors a number of geographic expeditions
to the world’s most remote places. At the beginning of 2012, with the support of Kaspersky Lab,
British explorer Felicity Aston made a 59-day, 1,700 km journey to become the first woman in
history to cross Antarctica alone. In 2013 Kaspersky Lab also supported the 7 Volcanoes
Expedition.
Kaspersky Lab’s vision “We are here to save the world” affirms the company’s commitment to
making cyberspace safer. This vision unites the company’s business goals and corporate social
responsibility.
Kaspersky Academy and Security Start-Up Challenge
Kaspersky Lab believes that creating awareness, encouraging dialogue and launching educational
programs are all essential steps towards international collaboration in the fight against cybercrime.
Kaspersky Academy is a series of projects dedicated to supporting young talents in IT security. The
company searches for and encourages gifted young people, giving them an opportunity to be
noticed and to develop their knowledge and skills. Kaspersky Lab believes that a new generation
of highly qualified specialists is the basis of a secure future for everyone.
In 2015 The Security Startup Challenge was launched, it is a mentor-driven acceleration program
developed and implemented by the Kaspersky Academy. In partnership with venture industry
leaders, Mangrove Capital Partners and the ABRT Venture Fund. Security Startup Challenge
provides startups with access to cutting-edge business, cybersecurity and cross-industry expertise
from around the world.
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What clients and partners say about Kaspersky Lab
Vittorio Boero, Head of IT Ferrari S.p.A., Ferrari
“Kaspersky Lab’s ability to intercept malware not detected by other players and its flexibility to
adapt to Ferrari’s requirements make for a compelling and innovative roadmap for future years.”
Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer, Facebook
“As a truly innovative company, we appreciate the values we have in common with Kaspersky Lab.
The company is an industry leader and helps provide us with the latest threat information; they’re
constantly monitoring global trends and deliver advanced protection.”
Industry Experts
Kevin Bailey, Research Director, European Security Software, IDC
"Kaspersky Lab has grown rapidly from a family business to a global company. Today it's one of the
biggest players on the IT security market, and as such it features regularly in our research. The
company has potential for further growth and we’ll be watching its development closely."
Rimma Perelmuter, CEO, MEF (The Mobile Entertainment Forum)
“Kaspersky’s heritage as a leading expert in digital security, combined with its deep
understanding of the rising challenges of mobile security, makes it a strong partner for companies
looking to understand and implement solutions in this complicated arena.”
i Source: Gartner, Market Share Analysis: Security Software, Worldwide, 2013. Sid Deshpande, Ruggero Contu, Matthew Cheung, May
22, 2014.
ii Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Peter Firstbrook, John Girard, Neil MacDonald, December, 22,
2014.
iii IDC MarketScape: Western European Enterprise Endpoint Security 2012 Vendor Analysis (doc #IS01V, March 2013)
iv The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security, Q1 2013
v The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2013. The rating was published in
the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2014–2018 Forecast and 2013 Vendor Shares” (August 2014, IDC #250210). The
report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2013.
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