Kaspersky Lab Appoints Nikita Shvetsov as Chief Technology Officer

Woburn, MA – October 14, 2014 -Kaspersky Lab announced the appointment of Nikita Shvetsov to the position of Chief Technology Officer. While serving as acting CTO and a member of the Management Board since April 2014, Nikita confirmed his leadership and made an outstanding contribution to the company’s strategic development, leading to his permanent appointment to the role.

As the Company’s CTO, Nikita will continue to devise the overall technology and product strategy, drive all product and service development as well as engineering and research activities. Nikita will also oversee the whole Kaspersky Lab R&D organization as Kaspersky Lab’s main source of expertise.

Nikita has been with Kaspersky Lab for 10 years after joining the company in 2004 as a virus analyst. In 2006 Nikita served as a senior developer working on emulators for the heuristic engine and then became Director of the Anti-Malware Research Unit. Prior to being appointed acting CTO, Nikita served as Vice President of Threat Research and Deputy CTO (Research), taking charge of the strategic direction of Kaspersky Lab’s threat prevention technologies.

Under Nikita’s leadership, Kaspersky Lab products and technologies have won a number of prestigious awards, including two ‘Product of the Year’ awards from AV-Comparatives, the highly-respected independent testing organization. Also, the company was ranked first in a Top 3 metric measuring consistent performance in independent tests throughout 2013, according to statistics gathered from the most authoritative testing organizations.

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Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO
Kaspersky Lab
“As acting CTO Nikita Shvetsov proved himself to be a thoughtful, business-oriented leader and brought a lot of enthusiasm to his role.We are working very hard to provide all our customers – from casual Internet users to large industrial enterprises – with the best tools to protect themselves against existing and emerging threats in cyberspace. Nikita has proved that he can lead our R&D team and develop high-quality innovative solutions and I am confident that he and his team will see even greater achievements in the years to come.”

About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 17-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 300 million users worldwide. Learn more at www.kaspersky.com.

*The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2013. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2014–2018 Forecast and 2013 Vendor Shares (IDC #250210, August 2014). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2013.

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