Eugene Kaspersky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Eugene Kaspersky

Russian specialist in the information security field

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1965

Place of Birth: Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia

Profession: writer, businessperson, computer scientist, inventor, programmer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (Russian: ??????? ???????????? ??????????; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees.
He cofounded 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 2019.