About Kaspersky Lab

We believe that everyone should be free to get the most from technology – without intrusion or other security worries. Our crack team of specialists gives you the freedom to live your digital life without worrying about your personal information and assets. For over 14 years, our team of experts has worked on exposing, analyzing and neutralizing IT threats. Along the way, we have amassed a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge about malware and how to deal with it.

Kaspersky Lab is one of the fastest growing IT security companies worldwide. Today, it is firmly positioned as one of the world’s top four leading vendors of endpoint security software. Kaspersky Lab continues to further improve its market position, demonstrating significant growth in all regions. According to the company’s 2011 financial results, Kaspersky Lab’s global revenue grew by 14% compared to the previous year and exceeded US $600 million.

The company today

Kaspersky Lab is an international group that operates in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company’s headquarters are located in Moscow, Russia, from which it oversees global operations and business development.

Kaspersky Lab currently employs over 2,400 highly qualified specialists. The company has its own territory offices in 29 countries and its products and technologies provide protection for over 300 million users worldwide.

Unique experience and knowledge

In 2012, Kaspersky Lab celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. Undoubtedly, the company’s most valuable asset is the relentless expertise it has gained in those years of combating viruses and other IT threats, enabling us to preempt trends in malware development. This helps us to remain one step ahead of the competition and provide our users with the most reliable protection from new types of attack.

Consumer products

Kaspersky Internet Security 2012, the company’s flagship product for home users, completely protects personal computers from all Internet threats. The solution includes HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System), an advanced application activity control leveraging new System Watcher technology which provides the fullest possible information about the system as a whole, thereby enabling maximum control of malicious activity and, if necessary, recovery of the computer’s normal operating parameters. Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 also includes an advanced ‘sandbox’ technology which uses virtualization to provide a secure isolated execution environment for applications that was first introduced in Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 also offers the advantages of Kaspersky Security Network, an innovative, distributed malware control system, designed for rapid response to new and unknown cyber threats as well as efficient hassle-free anti-spam protection.

Kaspersky Internet Security shows outstanding performance and consistency in independent tests conducted by respected international research centers and IT publications and regularly receives top awards.

Another popular solution from the company’s consumer product range is Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012, which includes proven antivirus technologies that provide highly effective basic protection to millions of users across the globe. Users of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 are provided with essential protection tools, supported by modern technologies, such as cloud-assisted protection and reputation check, web security features and unique Virtual Keyboard for stronger anti-phishing protection.

Kaspersky ONE is the company’s first multi-platform, user-centric Universal Security solution that brings comprehensive protection for the wide range of personal devices, starting from personal computers and notebooks and all the way to smartphones and tablets. Kaspersky ONE leverages one license approach, which makes it comfortable to protect a certain number of devices that you own – up to ten, depending on the product’s version. Kaspersky ONE provides top-of-the-range award-winning protection for Windows-based desktops and notebooks, Macs, Smartphones and Android-based tablets.

Kaspersky PURE is an integrated solution for optimized home network protection. Kaspersky PURE represents a new class of product which provides a secure and productive digital environment, whatever your computer is used for.

Kaspersky PURE combines complete protection against all types of web-borne threats with new, advanced features including extended parental control, data backup and encryption tools, a password management program and the ability to manage your entire home network or fine tune the security settings of your web browser and operating system from any computer on the network. Kaspersky PURE retains all the features that users of Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security have come to know and appreciate, including state-of-the-art ‘sandbox’ technologies that allow suspect applications to be run in a secure virtual environment, proactive detection of unknown threats, application control and restrictions on the level of access that suspicious programs have to passwords, logins, personal information and operating system settings.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac provides advanced protection against cyberthreats for Apple computers – without impacting the performance. It incorporates malware signature detection methods as well as cutting-edge cloud detection technologies and heuristic file analysis to protect computers from new threats that do not yet have recognized signatures. It is designed to match the design Mac OS X operating system and standard programs. Besides the protection from Mac-specific malware, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac is also able to locate and block threats for Windows and Linux platforms, effectively securing multiplatform computer environment.

Kaspersky Mobile Security is a user-friendly and reliable solution that protects mobile devices from network attacks, malware targeting mobile platforms and SMS spam. In the event that a smartphone is lost, the data in its memory also remains protected. It support the most popular smartphone platforms, such as Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Blackberry, and for some of them provides tools to safely encrypt user data, along with protection from malware, loss or theft.

Kaspersky Tablet Security is the most recent addition to Kaspersky Lab’s family of mobile products, which provides comprehensive anti-malware and anti-theft features for the new and emerging type of devices. Crafted according to tablets’ special hardware and interface characteristics, it introduces a new way to remotely control the device, even in case it has been lost or stolen. A specialized Web Interface can be used to remotely locate, block or completely wipe the tablet.

Corporate products

In 1999, Kaspersky Lab was the first company to introduce integrated antivirus software for workstations, file servers and application servers running on Linux/FreeBSD operating systems. Today, the company offers a whole range of effective IT security solutions for the most popular operating systems. Kaspersky Open Space Security provides all types of corporate infrastructure with world-class anti-malware protection in a single, integrated suite of applications that work seamlessly across all platforms. Every workstation, laptop, file server, mail server, Internet gateway or smartphone is fully protected, giving the customer complete confidence that the network is secure, whether employees are working in the office, remotely or at home.

The range of products for business includes applications for the protection of file servers and data storage systems running Windows, Linux and Novell NetWare operating systems, Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino groupware servers. It also covers Sendmail, qmail, Postfix and Exim mail servers, Microsoft ISA Server/Forefront TMG, and various Linux proxy servers, workstations and laptops running Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems, as well as smartphones based on Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms.

The company’s product range covers all of the main information security requirements that businesses and large state organizations have to adhere to, including: excellent protection levels, adaptability to changing circumstances, scalability, compatibility with different platforms, high performance, high fault tolerance, ease of use and high value. One of the primary advantages of Kaspersky Lab’s corporate range is the easy, centralized management provided by Kaspersky Security Center that extends to the entire network regardless of the number and type of platforms used.

Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows is based on the Kaspersky Lab’s latest intelligent, hybrid security technologies with deepest anti-malware protection and includes a wide range of security tools to effectively block modern blended threats, detect malicious activities and reduce business vulnerability. Strong anti-malware protection, based on Kaspersky Lab’s deep expertise and balanced global footprint, is supplemented with a broad set of IT Security features, including application control, web filtering, and device control. Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows integrates with cloud-based security intelligence system, which provides real-time update for new and unknown threats and support for application white listing.

Kaspersky Security Center allows organizations with computer networks of any size, from several machines to distributed networks with a complex administration structure, to implement a flexible, scalable model of antivirus protection management. The ease of installation and minimal time required to manage a protection system using Kaspersky Security Center helps to minimize Kaspersky Lab antivirus solutions’ total cost of ownership.

The experts at Kaspersky Lab have designed a sophisticated spam filtration solution – Kaspersky Anti-Spam – that boasts an excellent level of protection against unsolicited mail. The solution checks mail against a blacklist of providers and organizations, using SPF and SURBL technologies to filter traffic, analyzing the formal attributes of a message as well as using signature analysis, linguistic heuristics, and UDS technology for additional checks.

Kaspersky Lab also offers a new range of IT security outsourcing services for corporations of any size. Kaspersky Hosted Security for e-mail ensures reliable and effective spam filtering. This economically effective solution is easy to deploy and offers corporate networks world-class protection against all current and as yet unknown email threats. Kaspersky Hosted Security for web provides protection from IT threats that penetrate the corporate network via Internet gateways. The service combines the scanning of Internet traffic with web content filtering and ensures complete corporate network security for minimal financial outlay. With the help of the service, companies can implement a security policy that allows employees to interact effectively and safely with the Internet, yet restricts its use for personal activities such as communicating via social networks.

Kaspersky Security Center Service Provider Edition is a new network security management product for service providers. Kaspersky Security Center Service Provider Edition is a world-class application that allows service providers to offer a complete, managed endpoint security solution. Providers can now offer an all-inclusive service direct to the customer without the need for any developer involvement, allowing our partners to provide an even more effective method of delivering anti-malware protection management services to customer’s servers and workstations. Kaspersky Security Center Service Provider Edition is ideal for managing endpoint security on systems of any size, from the smallest home networks to the largest, most widely dispersed corporate infrastructures.

The range of products offered by Kaspersky Lab ensures an unprecedented level of protection from malware and other external threats. Kaspersky Lab customers have access to a wide range of additional services to ensure the most effective operation of our products.

Customers

Over 300 million people worldwide are protected by Kaspersky Lab products and technologies. Kaspersky Lab’s corporate client-base exceeds 200,000 companies located around the globe, ranging from small and medium-sized businesses, all the way up to large governmental and commercial organizations.