IT Security expert with vast experience in user protection.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaspersky. Education policy and cybersecurity experts will convene as speakers at this event. In 2007, Eugene was named the CEO of Kaspersky Lab. Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and successful entrepreneur. The company’s CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, will open the event and share his thoughts and experience about why it matters to teach kids about online safety and how adults can support them to become cyber-resilient. In November 2000, AVP was renamed 'Kaspersky Anti-Virus' after a dispute with a US partner. In 1997, he co-founded Kaspersky Lab, which was later run for a decade by his ex-wife Natalya Kaspersky. Kaspersky joined the KAMI Information Technologies Center in 1991, where he and his associates developed the AVP anti-virus product. Working at the scientific institute, the Cascade virus was detected on his computer, which increased Kaspersky's interest in information security and led to his studying the field of computer virology from 1989. Eugene Kaspersky fired back in an open letter the following day, alleging that the decision was made on political grounds alone and isn’t supported by objective evidence or technical details. In 1997, Kaspersky co-founded the Kaspersky Lab, a developer of secure content & threat management systems and the world's largest privately held vendor of software security products.Įugene Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский) was born 4 October 1965 in Novorossiysk, USSR. He has written articles on computer virology and speaks regularly at security seminars and conferences. Russian specialist in the information security field. Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive and co-founder of the embattled Russian cybersecurity firm that bears his name, believes his company is at the centre of a designed and orchestrated.