In its latest Sustainability Report for 2024–2025, Kaspersky details how it grows and supports its people, reduces its environmental impact and operates with transparency — three of the five strategic areas that make up the company’s ESG priorities.
For Kaspersky, building trust in the digital world means looking beyond technology alone. It also means investing in the people who create and support its solutions, reducing the company’s environmental footprint, and giving partners and stakeholders greater visibility into how its technologies are developed and reviewed. Across 2024–2025, Kaspersky invested $2.23 million in employee training, direct charitable spending reached $760,000, and the company’s Global Transparency Initiative expanded to 13 Transparency Centers worldwide.
Empowering
people
Behind every cybersecurity technology there are people: researchers, engineers, analysts, educators and teams who help protect millions of users and organizations every day. During the most recent reporting period, Kaspersky continued to invest in this human foundation. The company’s global headcount reached approximately 5,700 employees, representing 11.3% growth in 2025 compared to 2024, while average salaries increased by 7% globally. At the same time, staff turnover decreased from 15% to 10%, and 18% of employees have now been with the company for ten years or more — a sign of long-term engagement in a highly competitive technology market.
Kaspersky continued to strengthen its teams across multiple international regions during the reporting period, reinforcing its local expertise and ability to support cyber resilience worldwide. The most significant growth was recorded in the Asia-Pacific region, where hiring increased by 60% compared to 2023. Latin America and the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa also expanded their teams, reflecting the company’s continued investment in regional capabilities.
Kaspersky also continued to advance inclusion and equal opportunities across the company and the wider technology community. Women currently make up 25% of employees, while 26% of leadership positions are held by women. Beyond internal policies, Kaspersky continued to support initiatives such as Empower Women and also launched Future You in Tech, which aims to make cybersecurity more accessible, inclusive and attractive for young girls, helping broaden the future talent pipeline for the industry.
Kaspersky’s social impact also extended to education and charitable support. During the reporting period, the company allocated $760,000 in direct charitable spending and gifted 13,500 cybersecurity licenses to NGOs — almost 2.7 times more than in the previous reporting period, when more than 5,000 licenses were provided.
Education remained one of the company’s key tools for building long-term resilience. Kaspersky Academy now partners with approximately 200 universities across 42 countries, with around 50 new universities joining Kaspersky Academy Alliance during the two-year period — more than doubling the 2023 total. The Alliance is a special partnership program that helps universities integrate Kaspersky’s knowledge and up-to-date cybersecurity expertise into their educational process. By working with academic institutions, Kaspersky supports a stronger and more prepared talent pipeline for the cybersecurity industry.
Reducing
environmental impact
Kaspersky’s environmental agenda is focused on recognizing the indirect environmental value of cybersecurity and reducing the company’s own operational footprint. During the report period, the company invested approximately $43,000 in environmental initiatives, recycled 420 kg of electronic equipment, and donated or responsibly disposed of more than three tons of items. Kaspersky also recorded zero environmental compliance fines or sanctions.
Kaspersky’s technologies have also contributed to reducing hidden digital waste. One example is protection against cryptomining malware — malicious programs that secretly use victims’ devices and infrastructure to mine cryptocurrency. By detecting and blocking illegal mining, Kaspersky’s solutions help prevent unauthorized energy consumption and, according to the company’s estimates, reduce CO₂-eq emissions by up to 3,000 tons annually.
Being
open and transparent
Kaspersky’s Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) continued to expand, with 13 Transparency Centers now operating worldwide, including new locations in Istanbul, Bogotá and Seoul. Since the GTI’s launch, Kaspersky has invested more than $9.4 million in the initiative, with 67 visits conducted and seven product reviews completed at Transparency Centers. These centers allow trusted partners to review the company’s source code, software updates and threat detection rules, helping provide additional assurance around the integrity and reliability of Kaspersky’s technologies.
External validation remained another important element of the company’s transparency approach. During the reporting period, Kaspersky completed two independent annual audits — SOC 2 and ISO 27001 — and paid out more than $15,000 through its Bug Bounty program for 18 validated vulnerability reports. Together, these measures help strengthen trust by combining internal accountability with independent review and responsible vulnerability disclosure.
“Sustainability isn’t only about the threats we neutralize — it’s about the kind of company we choose to be. Over this period, we’ve grown our team while lowering turnover, expanded our charitable and educational programs, lightened our environmental footprint and opened our processes to even greater external scrutiny. Investing in people and communities and operating in the open is, for us, inseparable from building trust in the digital world,” said Maria Losyukova, Head of ESG & Sustainability at Kaspersky.
The full report is available at https://esg.kaspersky.com/
