
When an American company began using Kaspersky Lab’s name-which was not trademarked-Eugene Kaspersky renamed his firm Kaspersky Antivirus. His new venture got an early test from the CIH (or Chernobyl) virus, and met it more successfully than any product on the market.


Kaspersky’s efforts earned him worldwide praise, including first place in an antivirus competition sponsored by Hamburg University.īy 1997, Kaspersky had co-founded his own company, Kaspersky Lab. Two years later, he left his government post for a private company, where he developed his first product, Antiviral Toolkit Pro. When he wrote a program that identified and removed the virus, Kaspersky knew that he was on to something. In 1989, the Cascade virus infected Eugene Kaspersky’s computer. A popular keynote speaker, Eugene Kaspersky speaks from unmatched experience as one of our staunchest defenders against cybercrime. Cybersecurity speaker Eugene Kaspersky began defeating computer viruses as a hobby hundreds of millions now depend on his products.
