IGF 2024 High-Level Track

Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert. He is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Kaspersky, the world’s largest privately-held vendor of endpoint protection and cybersecurity solutions. 

Eugene began his career in cybersecurity accidentally when his computer became infected with the ‘Cascade’ virus in 1989. His specialized education in cryptography helped him analyze the encrypted virus, and then develop a removal tool for it. Eugene’s curiosity and passion for computer technology drove him to start analyzing more malicious programs and developing disinfection modules for them. This exotic collection of antivirus modules would eventually become the foundation for Kaspersky’s antivirus database. In 1997 Kaspersky was founded, with Eugene heading the company’s antivirus research. In 2007 he was named Kaspersky’s CEO.  

Today Kaspersky is one of the fastest growing IT security vendors, operating in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company employs more than 5,000 professionals and IT security specialists in 30+ dedicated regional offices across the globe, and its cybersecurity technologies have protected over a billion devices worldwide to date.