Kaspersky Lab

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Kaspersky Lab is a computer security company, co-founded by Eugene Kaspersky, offering anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam and anti-intrusion products. According to Virus Bulletin, Kaspersky Anti-Virus rates highly amongst virus scanners in terms of detection rates.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus engine also powers products or solutions by other security vendors, such as Sybari (now acquired by Microsoft), Netintelligence, GFI Software, F-Secure, Borderware, Frontbridge, Astaro, G-Data, Netasq and others.

Founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab is a privately held company headquartered in Moscow, Russia with regional offices in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Japan, China, Korea, USA. In 2005, Red Herring magazine listed Kaspersky among "Red Herring 100 Europe", a selection of the 100 private companies in Europe and Israel that play a leading role in innovation and technology. The executive team includes Natalya Kaspersky as the CEO of the company, Eugene Buyakin - Chief Financial Officer, Daniil Kaptsan -Marketing Director and Andrei Tikhonov - Technical Director.