{"id":26939,"date":"2022-11-28T21:36:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=26939"},"modified":"2022-11-28T23:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:38:56","slug":"kaspersky-commits-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2022\/11\/28\/kaspersky-commits-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky commits to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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February will mark a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and this had brought both threats and opportunities to Russian IT companies, according to Kaspersky. <\/p>\n

Speaking at the company\u2019s \u2018Cyber Security Weekend\u2019 in Jordan recently, Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder and CEO of the cyber security firm, said it had been given a \u2018gift\u2019 by the Russian government because all IT firms now don\u2019t have to pay corporate tax.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Russian government has recognised IT as one of the key, strategic industries, and gave us this deal. It\u2019s paradise,\u201d he said, adding that it would never move its HQ offshore.<\/p>\n

He also said that there are more opportunities for Russian IT companies as they moved to fill the gap left by foreign firms that have pulled out of the country. There have been sweeping sanctions applied to Russia since the invasion, and the US in particular has targeted semiconductor development, and nanotechnology. <\/p>\n

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We have the same distance with the Russian government as we do with the rest of the world\u2019s governments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Eugene Kaspersky<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kaspersky said it is now harder to do business in North America and the EU, but that it was not closing its offices in those territories. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe landscape has changed; in some parts of the world it got worse, but other parts are positive, and more positive than before, like in the Middle East, Africa, and many Asian countries. The Russian market is booming. We used to have more resources allocated to cloud technology, and less to endpoints, on-premises. But we\u2019ve now changed this. The US and European markets are more cloud-oriented, but the rest of the world is not.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout the allegations from the United States that we have close ties with Russian government; it\u2019s bullshit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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We behave as an independent cyber security company and we try to be as far away from politics as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Eugene Kaspersky<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe have the same distance with the Russian government as we do with the rest of the world\u2019s governments. We advise many governments on cyber security, and many governments are our customers. We behave as an independent cyber security company and we try to be as far away from politics as possible.”<\/p>\n

 As to the US adding Kaspersky to its entity list in 2017 because it was deemed a threat to national security, he repeated: \u201cIt\u2019s bullshit. There was no proof at all. Zero.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Responding to a report that the company will be stopping sales of its VPN product, Kaspersky Secure Connection, in the Russian Federation, he said the company was following local regulations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some countries, VPN is simply forbidden, so in those nations, we don\u2019t have it. Any other option is illegal. We stay in the legal area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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