Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian software company, which was founded in 1997 by Natalja Kasperskaja and Yevgeny Kasperski. Headquartered in Moscow has with national distributors. The company specializes in the development of security software. Natalya Kasperskaja in 2007 he became the lead in the newly created Board of Directors, which she left in the summer of 2011, again in order to devote themselves to their companies info Watch as CEO since Yevgeny Kasperski acts as Chairman of the Board and CEO of the company Kaspersky Lab. Info Watch was founded in 2003 as a subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab and developed solutions to prevent data leaks, or unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. Meanwhile, both companies are completely independent of each other and there are no business relationships more.
Kaspersky Lab has become known in recent years by its high recognition performance virus scanner, giving the company earned a good reputation and many awards. Kaspersky Lab is the fourth largest provider of security software in the world.
Developed by Kaspersky Lab technologies are licensed by a variety of other businesses and as the engine ( core unit ) used in their anti -virus programs.
Heuristic analysis
Kaspersky developed a heuristic analysis of data to detect viruses that do not have a signature, so are not yet known. This can be a high percentage block viruses before they are analyzed and found again the signature in the update of the programs. This analysis tool has been patented by Kaspersky.
Product Overview
Important products of Kaspersky Lab are:
Home user area:
Supported operating systems: Android, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry
Supported OS: Android
Since 15 October 2010, the version is 11.0 ( called "2011", current Ver. 11.0.2.556 ) Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security in different languages. How ( known by its Norton Security Suite), for example, at F -Secure and Symantec can be used with a newly released version of Kaspersky license an old version within the term of the license key. In this respect, the software upgrade for existing license so " free ".
Kaspersky Open Space Security includes protection for workstations, file servers, email servers and gateways. For the central administration and installation of the Kaspersky software on the network to Kaspersky Administration Kit is included.
It was also announced in February 2010 that the company has a " hardware antivirus" patented.
Business organization
The company is organized into three major business segments:
- Kaspersky Hosted Security Services - Managed Services
- Kaspersky Open Space Security
- Kaspersky Small Office Security
Since September 2004, operated a German subsidiary of Ingolstadt from customers in the DA- CH region ( Germany, Austria, Switzerland ). From 2007, the Scandinavian countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland were then cared for from 2008 Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia from Germany. Meanwhile, takes place in the Scandinavian countries with an office in Stockholm, the Benelux States are cared for by a subsidiary in Utrecht. Further offices in the UK, France, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Japan, China, Korea and the United States.
Positions to the Privacy Policy
In an interview with Russian media magazine Lenta.ru in the fall of 2013, company president Yevgeny Kasperski commented on the relationship of his company to monitor the Internet by intelligence agencies: "We not only cooperate with the FSB ( the Russian domestic intelligence service ) but also with the Americans and the Brazilians and with a number of European agencies in matters of security and cyber crime. We have a group of experts who can crack codes better than anyone else in the world, perhaps according to the FBI. We ... do not have the opportunity to take care of all kinds of detective work, that's not our job. But we give them the information that they can continue to catch criminals. " In the interview, Kaspersky also includes Russian opposition, as far as they violated Russian laws to such criminals, mentioning in particular the Russian opposition and the Internet blogger Alexei Navalny. Furthermore, Kaspersky expresses his admiration for the authoritarian political systems in Singapore and China, which are particularly effective and thinks he can no difference between the one-party system of the Soviet Union, which he had kept as a child for a happy and fair country, and recognize the U.S. political system.