Eugene Kaspersky

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Eugene Kaspersky (born October 4, 1965 in Novorossiysk, Russia) is a specialist in the information security field. He has written articles on computer virology and speaks regularly at security seminars and conferences. Kaspersky co-founded the Kaspersky Lab, a privately held international company that produces antivirus and other computer security products, in 1997.

Upon graduating from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, Kaspersky worked at a multi-discipline scientific research institute until 1991. While there, the Cascade virus was detected on his computer, which increased Kaspersky's interest in information security and led to his studying the field of computer virology from 1989. Kaspersky joined the KAMI Information Technologies Center in 1991, where he and his associates developed the AVP anti-virus project. In November 2000 the AVP project was renamed Kaspersky Anti-Virus.