Ximi Pro

Ximi Pro is a Russian developer of technologies for ensuring the security of container IT infrastructure (containerization, one of the types of virtualization that allows you to run third-party applications in isolation from the operating system).

History

2025: Kaspersky Lab owns 90% of the company

At the end of July 2025, Kaspersky Lab increased its share in the Ximi Pro container IT infrastructure protection developer to 90%. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Kaspersky Lab acquired a 49 percent stake in Ximi Pro in February 2023. As part of the new transaction, another 41% was bought. According to Interfax, Kaspersky Lab JSC has increased its stake in Ksimi PRO LLC through a deal with co-owners of the company - Mikhail Tainov and Artem Tovbin. As a result, their participation in the company structure decreased to 5.5% and 4.5%, respectively.

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Ximi Pro is developing a Tron solution to provide comprehensive security for container applications. Anton Ivanov, Technical Director of Kaspersky Lab, notes that the company is investing in the most promising areas of information security. Kaspersky Container Security represents one of them: this solution protects container applications at all stages of their life cycle - from development to operation. Kaspersky Container Security allows you to free up time for information security specialists to solve other problems, reduce the time it takes to bring a product to market and simplify digital transformation.

Sales of our container infrastructure security product show strong growth in home and global markets. We see the greatest demand in the framework of international sales of Kaspersky Container Security in the regions of the Middle East, where our product successfully withstands competition with international industry leaders, says Ivanov.

The acquisition of a stake in Ximi Pro will help Kaspersky Lab strengthen its position in the relevant market segment. The company intends to develop Kaspersky Container Security: in particular, functionality based on artificial intelligence will appear, which will greatly simplify the process of safely configuring the container infrastructure.^[1]

2023: Kaspersky Lab bought 49% in Ximi Pro

On February 20, 2023, Kaspersky Lab announced the purchase of 49% in Ximi Pro. Its participants did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction.

According to Interfax, citing a statement from Kaspersky Lab, this acquisition will allow the company to offer its own solutions for protecting container infrastructures with the ability to identify threats and respond to them in such environments. A pilot version of such a product is scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2023, and commercial sales will begin in the third quarter of the same year.

February 20, 2023 Kaspersky Lab announced the purchase of 49% in Ximi Pro

One of the key objectives of our strategy is to build an ecosystem that will cover all security scenarios for all digital assets of our corporate customers. We see an increasing demand for container security, as more and more companies use such infrastructure, "says Andrey Efremov, director of business development at Kaspersky Lab. - The product that we will bring to the market will be in demand in various industries, not only in IT and software development, but also in banks, in retail, in industry, in general, wherever there is modern development.

According to the forecast of Gartner analysts, which is cited in Kaspersky Lab, by 2024 the container application market will grow to $944 million. The rise is due to the fact that this form of virtualization helps to optimize corporate IT infrastructures and development processes. However, when conducting targeted attacks, the container infrastructure often acts as the initial vector due to configuration errors and the presence of vulnerabilities in key components, the Russian company explained.^[2]

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