MSPBanter: Kaspersky Lab on Cybersecurity, Antivirus and More
What if you could simulate a cyber attack, see its ramifications and take the necessary steps to mitigate this incident from happening in real life? Kaspersky Lab is working on technology that could allow businesses to do all this and more.
Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky and Managing Director Chris Doggett shared their thoughts about this technology, aka Kaspersky Industrial Protection Simulation (KIPS), along with several other topics with MSPmentor in Boston last week. (They even posed for the selfie included in this blog post, too. MSPmentor believes it is the only technology blog to include a selfie with Eugene Kaspersky and Chris Doggett.)
Kaspersky noted that KIPS reflects his company’s commitment to deliver “good enough” cybersecurity software.
“Cybersecurity software that works 100 percent of the time does not exist,” Kaspersky said. “We want our cybersecurity software to be good enough to stop a cyber attack from going through. Our goal is to develop cybersecurity software that delivers a high level of protection but is not too expensive.”
Other notable discussion topics included:
- The BDR market – Kaspersky said his company has no plans to venture into the backup and disaster recovery (BDR) space. Instead, Kaspersky Lab’s sole focus will continue to be endpoint protection.
- Acquisitions – While other cybersecurity companies might be targeting acquisitions, Kaspersky Lab currently has no plans to make any acquisitions: “If you acquire, it sends a message: ‘You are probably not good enough.'”
- Antivirus protection – Antivirus is dead, Kaspersky said. However, he also pointed out that antivirus has been dead for 15 years already. “Antivirus today is now a combination of products,” Kaspersky noted.
Kaspersky Lab “will always be a cybersecurity company,” according to Kaspersky. It will continue to explore ways to prevent cyber attacks as well.
And what’s the best way to do that? Raising the cost of a cyber attack for cybercriminals.
“We want to raise the cost of cyber attacks to where it is more expensive to steal data than not,” Doggett said.
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