However, the vindication is inevitable: young people will get older, get full of wisdom they want to share with the next generation, who will not pay much attention and choose their own way once again. It’s impossible to have a full life without them, so why spoil the ride?Īnd anyway, giving advice to young people is quite often not really worthwhile as they tend to ignore it and choose to do things their own way. That, maybe plus insatiable curiosity and hunger for knowledge, persistence, and never giving up!Īs for me today, yes, I’ve done OK - because I made my fair share of errors. I think I’d just leave him to it! Learning from personal experience and making mistakes and using them as lessons - that’s what I think is vital in achieving something in life. If you could advise your 20-year-old self today, what would you tell him? Now we’re fully global, operating in every single region in the world, and employing more than three thousand people. My goal was to create the best antivirus in the world, and in 1997 I founded - along with several partners - my own company, the one which I continue to lead today.

It was a time when the global IT security industry was still in its infancy. In 1991 I joined a private company with my own antivirus project. In 1989, when I was 24, I found the Cascade virus on my computer, and developed an application to disinfect it.Īfter that, collecting computer malware, studying it and fighting it became my hobby, and later - my profession and my business. It was in the last days of the Soviet Union, and after university I worked at a military research institute as a software engineer. I started my career in IT security, accidentally. Tell us a bit about how you started and highlights of your career. Then, in 1997 Kaspersky Lab was founded, with Eugene heading the company’s antivirus research. His specialized education in cryptography helped him analyze the encrypted virus and understand its behavior and then develop a removal tool for it.Īs a result, in 1990, Eugene started gathering a team of like-minded enthusiastic researchers to create the AVP Toolkit Pro antivirus program.įour years later, the University of Hamburg recognized this as the most effective antivirus software in the world.

He began his career in cyber security accidentally when his computer became infected with the “Cascade” virus in 1989. Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman of Kaspersky Lab

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