I got interested, started exploring it and got carried away. Eugene told me, “It all began in 1989 when I found the Cascade virus on my computer. The founding of Kaspersky Lab was more serendipity than anything.

There was no formal process or master plan in place.

That’s why we’ve done it,” explained Eugene with a sly smile. Back in the nineties we were a small team of devoted young geeks and didn’t realize that the mission we want to do is impossible. “When you are at the very start of a long road you do not realize how complicated that road may become. The question I had for Eugene was, why? What was the spark or epiphany that led him to think “Hey, I should launch a security company!”? It was the ILoveYou virus in 2000 that essentially put malware on the map, and put the world on notice that the rules of the game had changed. Prior to widespread Internet access, malware could only really spread via floppy disk, so it posed a much smaller threat. There were PC security products available already when Kaspersky Lab was founded in 1997, but to be fair that was still before the concept of antivirus became mainstream for either businesses or consumers. That means researching malware, spam, exploits, DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, cyber espionage threats and more, and then developing the tools to protect against them.Įugene sums up the mission of Kaspersky Lab like this: “We are here to save the world.” Simple enough. Second, the company strives to develop the necessary technologies, products, and services to defend against these threats. First, Kaspersky Lab aims to identify and predict the cyber threats that are coming next. Let’s take a step back, though, and explore the core of Kaspersky Lab.

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