Athletic CEOs by Stanislav Shekshnia

Author:Stanislav Shekshnia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anthem Press

Innovations and Threats

Ever since 1994, when Kaspersky AVP was acknowledged as the best security software by the University of Hamburg, the company has maintained its technological leadership. As Kaspersky Lab reported in 2016, its products participated in 78 independent reviews and took first place 55 times, while 70 tests ranked Kaspersky Lab in the top three. The company was also named as the ‘leader’ by three major international analytical agencies (IDC, Gartner and Forrester).

In 2016, Kaspersky Lab had more than 1,000 R&D specialists (one-third of the company’s employees), whereas in 2005 it had only 50. In those days, the antivirus research team used manual techniques. Today it is one of the most efficient antimalware research units in the industry (some experts say that competitors’ R&D teams have three times more staff).

The Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) – a unique, worldwide group of top-notch cybersecurity experts – was created in 2008. The main goal of this elite group is to investigate new cyberattacks and find ways to fight them. In 2016, GReAT consisted of 40-plus experts working in Europe, Russia, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. GReAT is considered one of the company’s best assets. So is the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), launched in 2009. This is a complex distributed infrastructure dedicated to processing cybersecurity-related data streams from about 60 million voluntary participants across the globe. KSN is based on cloud technologies and ensures faster and more effective protection against the latest cybersecurity threats.

Kaspersky Lab’s never-ending innovation is a reaction to the increasing complexity and density of cyberattacks. During the last ten years, a whole new industry of cybercrimes has emerged. Malware, spam, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, cyberespionage and other online threats have made billions of dollars for their perpetrators. Moreover, the phenomenon has escalated into a problem of national security. In 2010, the ‘Stuxnet’ worm attacked Iran’s nuclear system and became one of the most famous cyberweapons targeted at the fundamental infrastructure of a country. Stuxnet was recognized as a nation-state cyberespionage campaign, which has prompted the world’s leading powers to add cyberweapons to their armoury.

In 2012, a Kaspersky Lab team was the first to discover ‘Flame’, which they described as one of the most complex threats ever uncovered. In this case the target was not state facilities but private data in Middle Eastern countries. Kaspersky Lab also found that Stuxnet and Flame have the same origin. At a conference in Tel Aviv around this time, Kaspersky said to the audience.

I’m afraid that in the future there will be other countries in this game. It’s only software. Maybe hacktivists will become cyber terrorists. And maybe the traditional terrorists will be in touch with the cyber terrorists.5

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