Natalya, who pushed Eugene to start the company, was the CEO, while Eugene was the head of research. Kaspersky Lab was founded three years later by Kaspersky, his wife and Kaspersky's friend Alexey De-Monderik. This led to more business for Kaspersky from European and American companies.
#EUGENE KASPERSKY SOFTWARE#
In 1994, Hamburg University in Germany gave Kaspersky's software first place in a competitive analysis of antivirus software. Kaspersky's then-future wife Natalya Kaspersky became his coworker at KAMI. It earned about $100 per month, mostly from companies in Ukraine and Russia. At first the software was purchased by about ten clients per month.
#EUGENE KASPERSKY PRO#
There, he and his colleagues improved the software and released it as a product called Antiviral Toolkit Pro in 1992. In 1991, Kaspersky was granted an early release from his military service and left the defense ministry to take a job at the Information Technology Center of a private company KAMI, in order to work on his antivirus product full-time. Early on Kaspersky's anti-virus software had just 40 virus definitions and was distributed mostly to friends. Afterwards he continually found new viruses and developed software to remove them, as a hobby. He studied how the virus worked and developed a program to remove it.
#EUGENE KASPERSKY PC#
Kaspersky's interest in IT security began in 1989, when his PC was infected by the Cascade virus, while working for the Ministry of Defence. He met his first wife Natalya Kaspersky at Severskoye, a KGB vacation resort, in 1987. After graduating college, Kaspersky served the Soviet military intelligence service as a software engineer. He graduated in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. Īt the age of 16, Kaspersky entered a five-year program with The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, which prepared intelligence officers for the Russian military and KGB. He was also a member of the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Kolmogorov boarding school, which is run by Moscow University and specializes in math. When he was fourteen, Kaspersky began attending A.N. He spent his free time reading math books and won second place in a math competition at age 14. As a child he developed an early interest in math and technology. His father was an engineer and his mother a historical archivist. He grew up near Moscow, where he moved at age nine. Kaspersky was born on 4 October 1965 in Novorossiysk, Soviet Union. He became the CEO in 2007 and remains so as of 2023.
Kaspersky helped grow Kaspersky Lab through security research and salesmanship. His interest in IT security began when his work computer was infected with the Cascade virus in 1989 and he developed a program to remove it.
Kaspersky graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский born 4 October 1965) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees.
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