Eugene Kaspersky (Russian: Евгений Валентинович Касперский, Evgeniy Valentinovich Kasperskiy; born October 4, 1965 in Novorossiysk, USSR) 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.
Kaspersky graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, an institute (college in US English) co-sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Defence and the KGB[1]. Kaspersky then 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 product. In 1997, he co-founded Kaspersky Lab, which was later run for a decade by his ex-wife Natalya[2]. In November 2000, AVP was renamed 'Kaspersky Anti-Virus' after a dispute with a US partner.
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