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Woburn, MA – July 18, 2014 –Kaspersky Lab North America today announced it has been named a Massachusetts Excellence Award recipient by the US Trade & Commerce Research Institute (USTCRI) for Excellence in Technology & Software. USTCRI is a leading authority on researching, evaluating and recognizing companies across a wide spectrum of industries that meet its high standards of excellence. Each year, the USTCRI panel identifies firms that have demonstrated excellence in their respective fields and achieved commercial recognition.

This award comes on the heels of recent additions to Kaspersky Lab’s product portfolio. For example, in April 2014, Kaspersky Lab announced its latest virtualization security solution Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Light Agent, which delivers advanced protection to the VMware, Citrix and Microsoft virtualization platforms. The protection and performance benefits of Kaspersky Lab’s light-agent solution offer the “best of both worlds” over existing agentless and agent-based virtualization security models.

Kaspersky Lab’s product innovation has also received prestigious recognition recently. In January 2014, Kaspersky Lab was named a “Leader” in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms for the third consecutive year. This prestigious honor further confirms the company’s status as a top provider of endpoint protection solutions. The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a prominent annual market research report utilized as a benchmark for companies seeking to evaluate vendors and products in the IT security industry.

In addition, Kaspersky Lab received SC Magazine’s 2013 Excellence Award for Best SME security solution and has received top-tier recognition from independent testing firms, being named a Product of the Year by AV-Comparatives and taking first place in Dennis Technology Labs testing. 

Quotes:
Chris Doggett, Managing Director
Kaspersky Lab North America
“Our goal at Kaspersky Lab is to ensure a safe, secure cyberspace for our customers by providing the very best endpoint protection, both for consumers and businesses. This is why, throughout our history, we’ve stayed laser focused on developing and fine-tuning our technologies, which are always built in-house from the ground up. This award is yet another testament to our expertise in security, the efficacy of our technology and our commitment to being the leader in endpoint protection solutions.”

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 16-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 atwww.kaspersky.com.

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Media Contacts
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Susan.rivera@kaspersky.com

About US Trade & Commerce Research Institute
The Mission Statement of US Trade & Commerce Research Institute (USTCRI) is to promote and cultivate a set of responsible business standards and practices that can be emulated across industries and geographies alike to sustain an environment of trust and stewardship. It exhibits USTCRI’s core values of business ethics and positive leadership. USTCRI strives to be instrumental in assisting in the formulation of policies that encourage incremental growth and supplemental value for all involved.

* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2012. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2013–2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares (IDC #242618, August 2013). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2012.

Kaspersky Lab North America Recognized as a Massachusetts Excellence Award Recipient for Technology & Software

Kaspersky Lab North America Recognized as a Massachusetts Excellence Award Recipient for Technology & Software
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