Eugene Kaspersky

Eugene Kaspersky
Евгений Касперский
Kaspersky in 2018
Born	(1965-10-04) 4 October 1965 (age 58) Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	IKSI
Occupation(s)	Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab
Known for	Founder of Kaspersky Lab
Spouse	•  Natalya Kaspersky (1986—1998)
Children	Maxim (b. 1989) Ivan (b. 1991)
Awards	State Prize of the Russian Federation

Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare.

Kaspersky graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. His interest in IT security began when his work computer was infected with the Cascade virus in 1989 and he developed a program to remove it. Kaspersky helped grow Kaspersky Lab through security research and salesmanship. He became the CEO in 2007 and remains so as of 2024.