He graduated in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. Īt the age of 16, Kaspersky entered a five-year program with The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School, which prepared intelligence officers for the Russian military and KGB. He was also a member of the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Kolmogorov boarding school, which is run by Moscow University and specializes in math. When he was fourteen, Kaspersky began attending A.N. He spent his free time reading math books and won second place in a math competition at age 14. As a child he developed an early interest in math and technology.

His father was an engineer and his mother a historical archivist. He grew up near Moscow, where he moved at age nine. Kaspersky was born on 4 October 1965 in Novorossiysk, Soviet Union. He became the CEO in 2007 and remains so as of 2021. Kaspersky helped grow Kaspersky Lab through security research and salesmanship. 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 graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. He has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. 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.

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