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2024: Construction of a data center in China
In early August 2024, it became known that Kaspersky Lab was creating a data center (DPC) in southern China. The facility will be located in Guizhou Province.
According to the China Daily newspaper, Adrian Hia, managing director of Kaspersky Lab's Asia-Pacific division, disclosed information about the project. According to him, the company intends to study the market opportunities in the Greater Bay Area, which includes Guangdong Province and two special administrative regions of the PRC - Hong Kong and Macau.
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On the basis of the new data center, Kaspersky Lab intends to provide individual managed services for detecting cyber threats and ensuring security. The Russian company will focus on solving the problems faced by Chinese business when entering foreign markets. The areas of production, sales and services are mentioned. Kaspersky Lab will help enterprises from the PRC adapt to various landscapes, cyber security including managing information from foreign customers. In addition, protection against potential cyber threats in various markets will be provided.
Kaspersky Lab intends to use artificial intelligence algorithms in the new data center to increase the efficiency of analyzing malware and detecting cyber attacks. Hia stresses that while AI poses new challenges to cybersecurity, it can also increase the level of security in information infrastructure. Kaspersky Lab also plans to implement solutions to counter new network security problems caused by the spread of the Internet of Things and connected vehicles.[1]
2023: Malaysia Office Opens
Kaspersky Lab has registered Kaspersky Lab SEA Sdn in Malaysia. Bhd to promote solutions on the KasperskyOS platform in the country. This became known in June 2023. Read more here.
2022: Transparency centers opened in Japan, Singapore and the United States
In June 2022, Kaspersky Lab announced the opening of three new transparency centers - in Japan, Singapore and the United States - as part of its Global Transparency Initiative. The Russian company is trying to regain the trust of partners and customers concerned about its possible ties with the Russian government. All visits are made only by appointment, the company said.
The Transparency Center will provide trusted partners and government organizations with the opportunity to check the source code of the company's products, including the flagship solutions Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Security for Business and the Kaspersky Security Center management console. In addition, guests of the Center will be able to study the documentation on software development and data processing principles in a specially created safe and convenient environment.
The center USA in will be located at Kaspersky's North American headquarters in Woburn. The new center in Massachusetts, which was previously located in New Brunswick, Canada will now serve as the location of the company's North American Transparency Center, according to a press release. Kaspersky Lab""now has a total of seven inspection centers code around the world, with previously opened centers in,,, and Switzerland. Spain Malaysia Brazil
The company, which strongly denies collusion with the Russian government, opened its first code verification center in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2018, shortly after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security banned Kaspersky products to all government agencies in late 2017. In a press release published on June 16, 2022, Kaspersky Lab did not mention the contradictions related to its Russian roots and accusations of possible ties to the Kremlin. Instead, the company presented the opening of its new centers as a move toward transparency in the IT industry as a whole.
{{quote 'We are the first company in the cybersecurity industry to open its source code for external analysis! I would like to invite our potential and existing customers, as well as representatives of government regulators, to our new transparency centers, and we will do our best to answer all possible questions, "said Andrey Efremov, director of business development at Kaspersky Lab. }} As part of the global information openness initiative, the company has already taken the following steps:
- Began to transfer data that European users voluntarily provide through the Kaspersky Security Network, and the infrastructure for their processing and storage from Russia to Switzerland;
- Successfully audited control procedures in service organizations - Service Organization Control for Service Organizations (SOC 2) Type 1. The final report, published, confirms that the process of developing and releasing threat recognition rules (antivirus databases) is protected from unauthorized interference due to strong security control mechanisms;
- The company continues to improve its bug bounty vulnerability search program. Since the increase in remuneration under this program was announced, Kaspersky Lab has fixed more than 100 vulnerabilities.
- Kaspersky Lab supports the Disclose project, which is a SafeHarbor site for vulnerability researchers concerned about the negative legal consequences of their disclosures.[2]
2020: Closure of offices in China due to coronavirus COVID-19
In early March 2020, Kaspersky Lab closed its offices in China due to the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. At the same time, the company's employees continued to work remotely.
 | The health of employees has the highest priority, the company is taking all available measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In this regard, at the moment we have decided to temporarily close our offices in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, all employees in China work from home, "Kaspersky Lab said in a statement quoted by Interfax. |  |
In the office of Kaspersky Lab located in the Asia-Pacific region, flexible working hours were introduced, respiratory masks and sanitizers were distributed to employees. At the same time, it is noted that none of the employees of the companies contracted the COVID-19 virus.
| | Kaspersky Lab has canceled business trips to countries where many cases of coronavirus infection have been registered. As for other countries, the company also does not recommend employees to go there. After returning from the countries with the greatest spread of coronavirus, employees are advised to work from home for two weeks and "analyze their health status. | |
Kaspersky Lab also announced the transfer of its Chinese offices to a single financial management system. The project included automation of the head office in Beijing and branches (Shanghai, Tianjin). The implementation was carried out taking into account the Chinese specifics and all local accounting requirements determined by local legislation.
Companies, including Kaspersky Lab, began to actively transfer employees to remote work after the outbreak of COVID-19, which covered the entire planet. By March 5, 2020, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the world exceeds 95 thousand people, almost 3.2 thousand people died, of which about 3 thousand are in China. In the Celestial Empire, about 80 thousand people fell ill. In addition to Kaspersky Lab, Google and a number of other technology companies closed their offices in China[3]
2019
Launch of online sales in Vietnam and Thailand on the Allsoft Ecommerce platform
On September 27, 2019, it became known that Kaspersky Lab began online sales of electronic licenses in Vietnam and Thailand through the Allsoft Ecommerce platform. Home antivirus solutions and business products can be purchased through the online platform. Working with this site, adapted to the requirements of the local market, will allow the vendor to increase sales in the region and increase the average check.
The online platform has been completely localized, taking into account the requirements of the markets of Vietnam and Thailand: all information about products is posted in local languages, and payments are accepted in Vietnamese Dong and Thai Bats. Buyers can pay for an order by choosing one of the local payment methods, including payment with a bank card, an online bank with access to the most popular local banks and PayPal. Customers are assisted by phone and email by specialists from the Allsoft Ecommerce contact center in Vietnamese and Thai in 9/5 mode. They communicate by mail, receive incoming calls and make outgoing calls, helping with all issues related to the purchase and installation of Kaspersky products in Vietnam and Thailand.
| | The acquisition of Kaspersky Lab products through the Allsoft Ecommerce online platform will be especially convenient for buyers of the B2C segment and small and medium-sized businesses. If a large business often works with a vendor or integrator, then individuals prefer to make purchases on their own in an online store. Now they can do this through a platform where all information is posted in their native language and prices are converted into local currency, says Allsoft Ecommerce Business Development Director Marina Kuznetsova
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Opening a transparency centre in Malaysia
On August 15, 2019, Kaspersky Lab announced the opening of the Center for Transparency in the Asia-Pacific Region.
The third in a row and the first in the Asia-Pacific region, is located in Cyberjaya - Silicon Valley Malaysia and the satellite city. Kuala Lumpur
He will start receiving guests in early 2020. Cybersecurity Malaysia took an active part in the opening of the Center.
As in Zurich and Madrid, the Cyberjaya Transparency Center will provide trusted partners and government organizations with the opportunity to check the source code of the company's products, including the flagship solutions Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Security for Business and the Kaspersky Security Center management console. In addition, guests of the Center will be able to study the documentation on software development and data processing principles in a specially created safe and convenient environment.
The Transparency Center provides access to solutions and services; updates; anti-virus bases data streams received by Kaspersky Lab products through; as cloud service Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) well as the opportunity to study how the company organizes the processes of analyzing cyber threats and testing the security of applications.
The structure was created as part of Kaspersky Lab's global initiative on information openness, a large-scale project announced in October 2017. This initiative is a set of measures taken to meet the growing interest of partners and government organizations in how Kaspersky Lab products and technologies work.
| | For me, this visit is a pleasant occasion to come to Kuala Lumpur, a beautiful city and one of the most important megacities of the Asia-Pacific region. We are opening the Transparency Center here so that our customers and government organizations can make sure that our products are absolutely reliable and provide a high level of protection. This is an important milestone in the implementation of our global initiative on information openness, | |
| | We are pleased to launch the next Transparency Center to enable users working in this region to learn the services and capabilities of Kaspersky Lab technologies. Thanks to the support of Cybersecurity Malaysia, this Center is located in a future hub cyber security in Cyberjaya. Our interaction is a prime example of how private companies state organizations can join forces to provide the highest level of protection against cybercrime, | |
| | Kaspersky Lab will move to a built building in Cyberjaya in 2019, and we are very pleased that its first Transparency Center in Asia opened in Malaysia. As cyber threats continue to evolve in our country and throughout the Asia-Pacific region, we believe that private companies and government agencies should build trusted cooperation. Kaspersky Lab's readiness to show how the data processing process takes place indicates that it has nothing to hide. The company will share its expertise and knowledge, and this will benefit the entire cybersecurity industry in Malaysia. We hope that our partnership will become an example for other countries and private companies and that we can set new high standards of openness and transparency for our industry, | |
As part of the global initiative on information openness, Kaspersky Lab has already taken the following steps:
- began to transfer data that European users voluntarily provide through the Kaspersky Security Network, and the infrastructure for their processing and storage from Russia to Switzerland. This process is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2019;
- opened two Transparency Centers in Europe: in Zurich in November 2018 and in Madrid in June 2019;
- successful audit of control procedures in service organizations - Service Organization Control for Service Organizations (SOC 2) Type 1. The final report, published by one of the Big Four companies, confirms that the process of developing and releasing threat recognition rules (antivirus databases) is protected from unauthorized interference due to strong security control mechanisms;
- continues to improve the bug bounty vulnerability search program. Since the increase in remuneration under this program was announced, Kaspersky Lab has fixed 66 vulnerabilities found by third-party researchers and paid them a total of almost 45 thousand US dollars. In addition, Kaspersky Lab supports the Disclose.io project, which is a SafeHarbor for vulnerability researchers concerned about the negative legal consequences of their disclosures.
Creating antiviruses for the Vietnamese authorities
On August 7, 2019, it became known about the involvement of Kaspersky Lab in the creation of antivirus software for the Vietnamese authorities. The Russian company concluded the corresponding contract with one of the local government structures responsible for information security, the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation said in a statement.
The terms of the agreement assume that the Vietnamese partner will gain access to the antivirus database and the main software components of Kaspersky Lab. The joint solution will be built on the basis of the most modern technologies for protecting against computer threats in compliance with the requirements of Vietnamese legislation for data collection and processing. It is planned that the first few thousand users from among the employees of state organizations will begin to use a joint solution in 2019.
Kaspersky Lab stressed that this is a commercial project for the company
The order received by Kaspersky Lab was the result of the implementation of the decisions of the 21st meeting of the Russian-Vietnamese intergovernmental commission chaired by Deputy Prime Ministers of the two countries Maxim Akimov and Chin Dinh Zung, which took place in Moscow in October 2018, and a lot of expert work coordinated by the Ministry of Communications.
In Vietnam, Kaspersky Lab also trains information security specialists, and in May entered into an agreement with the local telecommunications company Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group.
By early August 2019, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, together with the Office of the Vietnamese Government, is preparing road maps for the creation of an electronic government system and a National Center cyber security (SOC) in Vietnam. In addition, the implementation of the pilot project as part of the creation of the SOC and four pilot projects for the deployment of separate elements of the "smart city" in Hanoi has been agreed[4]
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