Parallels Foreign Carmakers Shift Into Reverse In Russia And actually, Russian software engineers are the best." In a March interview, Kaspersky told Bloomberg Businessweek that "Russia is very rich in software engineers, thanks to Russian technical education system. His firm, Kaspersky Lab, has been a leader in the cybersecurity business, in part because it draws on Russian skills in cyberengineering. Kaspersky, incidentally, told The Guardian newspaper he didn't like that movie, because the fiction touched on his own real fears about cyberterrorism. The same might be said of Kaspersky, a man whose company makes anti-virus software that's on hundreds of millions of computers around the world. There's a line in the 2007 movie Die Hard 4: Live Free Or Die, when in the midst of a wave of cyberterrorism, the villain warns "you have no idea who you're dealing with." Given Russia's cyber skills, it's not surprising that a Russian entrepreneur, Eugene Kaspersky, runs one of the world's leading companies offering protection from malware and online crime.īut with the current tensions between Russia and the West, Kaspersky's ties to the Russian government have raised questions. Kaspersky and his firm have ties to the Russian government, but say that should not be cause for concern in the West, where the company's cybersecurity software is widely used.Īlexander Zemlianichenko Jr./Bloomberg via Getty Images Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive officer of Kaspersky Lab, at his office in Moscow last Dec.
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