Kaspersky Lab turns 20: Key events and milestones

Twenty years’ worth of the most important events in the cybersecurity industry and Kaspersky Lab’s history.

At times everyone needs to slow down, take a break, think about the future, contemplate the past. We at Kaspersky Lab are constantly thinking about the future, so we don’t need a break to do that; however, one usually requires a reason to look into the past. And we have one: Kaspersky Lab has just turned 20!

For a cybersecurity company, 20 years is quite an age. So many things have happened since Eugene Kaspersky founded the company that no one can remember all of them. Here we’ve recapped some of the most important events in Kaspersky Lab’s story and consolidated them into one timeline.

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