Kaspersky Natalya Ivanovna

Kasperskaya (Choker) Natalya Ivanovna - CEO of InfoWatch , a developer of systems for protecting confidential information from internal threats. For more than 10 years she was the head of Kaspersky Lab.

Biography

Natalia Ivanovna Choker (later Kasperskaya) was born on February 5, 1966 . Parents are typical representatives of the "technical intelligentsia." The only child was born late by those standards: his father was already 46 years old, his mother was 30. Parents are engineers, worked in "closed" institutes, always busy.

In her youth she went in for sports, for a long time she played basketball in the Youth Sports School. In winter she went skiing in the suburbs, and in the summer she was fond of swimming. She also collected stamps, badges and Soviet coins, painted portraits of her acquaintances and sang in the school choir.

In an interview, Natalya Kasperskaya said that she dreamed of becoming a veterinarian:

'I really

enjoyed messing around with animals. I even seriously thought about choosing such a profession, but when I moved to high school, I began to have completely insurmountable problems with chemistry. And since my parents are "techies," there was no special alternative. Naturally, I was advised to enter a technical university. "

The last two school years she studied at the physics school at the Moscow Aviation Institute, then entered the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM) at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics.

1986: Acquaintance with Evgeny Kaspersky

Students Natalia Choker and Eugene Kaspersky met at the age of 20. in the Rest House, where Natalya went with her institute friend. She singled him out straight away. 'He's very unconventional. By nature - the leader... The company had a love quadrangle - in general, everything is not trivial '.

Six months later, they got married. Soon Natalya went on maternity leave, becoming a housewife for six years, raised two sons.

Natalia gave birth to her first child, son Maxim, in the late 1980s. At this time, she studied at the institute in the 5th year, and during the preparation for the diploma, the birth of her son and the first year of his life flew almost imperceptibly. She did not take academic leave, mom and grandmother helped a lot with Maxim.

In 1989 she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM) with a degree in Applied Mathematics. He has a bachelor's degree in business from the Open University of Great Britain. She worked as a researcher at the Central Scientific and Design Bureau in Moscow.

In the early 1990s, Natalia's husband Yevgeny Kaspersky worked in the antivirus project of the KAMI Research and Development Center, a company created by his former teacher from the Higher School of KGBAlexey Remizov.

In 1994 , she joined the Kami Research and Development Center, where she headed the AVP antivirus project.

1997: Co-founder of Kaspersky Lab

In 1997, Natalia convinced her husband to start her own company and make her last name a brand. The founding father was engaged in the technical part. Natalia Kasperskaya became the CEO of Kaspersky Lab and was engaged in sales, personnel and access to international markets.

Kaspersky Lab initially employed six people, but gradually it grew to an international group of companies with a head office in Moscow, ten foreign offices and a staff of more than 500 people. To questions like: "What is the success of the company?," "Who did more for success?," Etc. Natalia was responsible for her life dozens of times. The company was at a very necessary time in the right place, very successfully - there was just market growth, that is, the market was still new, this is the first. Second, in Russia it was generally irreverent, that is, Kaspersky, in fact, were the discoverers in this sense in the field of software. The third is that competitors also did not know where to go, that is, everyone wandered blind and made many mistakes in the same way. Everyone was on an equal footing.

In one of the conversations, Yevgeny Kaspersky noted that Natalia's biography is like a road to the realization of the "American dream." "After spending several years with children," I came to work at Kami and from a modest seller in the software and hard department for 6 years turned into the head of a well-known and promising company.

1998: Divorce from Eugene Kaspersky

Natalia and Evgeny Kaspersky divorced in 1998.

- The reason for the divorce was both the divergence of interests with Kaspersky and the existence of a joint business. I think that Kaspersky did not really like having a wife higher in position. And although in words he himself did not seek to become a manager, in terms of character, he more like his wife, who is in the role of a wingman. Then I did not have the wisdom to humble my pride. This led to the collapse.

2001: Marriage to Igor Ashmanov

In 2001, Natalia married Igor Ashmanov. Interestingly, the idea of ​ ​ organizing Infowatch was put forward by Igor Ashmanov: if there is Antispam, so why not turn it and start controlling outgoing corporate information.

2007: Owner and CEO of InfoWatch

In the summer of 2007, she was elected to the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kaspersky Lab.

In October 2007 , Natalya Kasperskaya became the CEO of the company and the sole owner of InfoWatch, a developer of systems for protecting confidential information from internal threats.

2011: Sale of part of the stake in Kaspersky Lab

On January 20, 2011, it became known that the American private equity fund General Atlantic acquired a large stake in Kaspersky Lab. This is the first time in the history of an antivirus developer that a professional institutional investor has entered the company.

The parties do not disclose either the size of the American stake in Kaspersky Lab or the amount paid, but they report that upon completion of the transaction, General Atlantic will become the second largest shareholder in the Lab. The largest shareholder of the company will remain Evgeny Kaspersky, who has a controlling stake.

Part of the shares transferred to the General Atlantic fund previously belonged to one of the previous shareholders of the company, the other part, which Yevgeny Buyakin called "symbolic," was issued additionally. According to CNews, the main seller of the shares was Natalya Kasperskaya, co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of Lab. Shares of Evgeny Kaspersky did not participate in the deal.

Natalya Kasperskaya told CNews that the share of the new investor in the Laboratory will be "smaller" than 20%. According to her, she has a significant part of the company's shares, and she has no plans to leave the chair of the board of directors "unless the shareholders make another decision."

She plans to invest the proceeds in her own projects. These are the developer of leak protection solutions Infowatch, the Nanosemantics company, which is engaged in semantic analysis of written speech, and the Kribrum project, which studies the reputation of companies by analyzing their references on the Internet and other media environments.

The initiator of the transaction was General Atlantic: its executive director John Bernstein says that the fund has long been looking for a manufacturer of security solutions for investment and "about a year ago turned to Kaspersky Lab with a proposal for cooperation."

At the request of CNews, the capitalization of Kaspersky was estimated by the chairman of the board of Finam Vladislav Kochetkov, who believes that the entire company is now worth $1.5 billion with an estimated revenue of $540 million in 2010.

Sergei Belousov, founder of the Runa Capital fund and executive director of Parallels, also believes that "most likely, Kaspersky Lab's revenue is more than $500 million." He found it difficult to assess the capitalization of the company, since Kaspersky is "growing very well and its profitability is unknown." According to Belousov, the Laboratory is more "focused" not on profitability, but on growth, which greatly affects its value.

Based on different estimates of capitalization and the share of securities sold, the upper limit of the proceeds from the sale of shares may range widely from $200 to $300 million.

2011: Abduction of Ivan's son

April 19, 2011 April morning in Hong Kong turned out to be wonderful. On the eve of Natalia Kasperskaya, successful negotiations were held with a potential Chinese partner, who offered to spend the next day on his yacht. On a soft wave, they walked along the sea and anchored in a beautiful bay three hours from the port. After swimming, Natalya Kasperskaya took the phone. "Strange," she turned to her husband Igor Ashmanov. "Ten missed calls, all from the security chief." Natalia pressed the response call and heard the terrible: "Vanya was stolen."

Ivan Kaspersky, the son of Yevgeny Kaspersky and Natalia Kaspersky, was kidnapped near the office of Infowatch, owned by his mother. According to Lifenews, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of 3 million euros from Ivan's parents. Ivan works for Natalia Kaspersky's company as a programmer.

Eugene Kaspersky was in London that morning - he was preparing for a speech at the international exhibition on information security. Hearing the demands of the kidnappers, he refused further negotiations with them and forwarded them to the head of the security service.

At 10 o'clock in the morning To Moscow , a yacht with Kaspersky and Ashmanov on board was already in full swing to Hong Kong, assistants changed air tickets. In the early morning of the next day, the couple were in Moscow. A day later, Yevgeny Kaspersky flew in and settled in one of the hotels under heavy security. Heavy waiting days began at Petrovka, 38 - Thursday, Friday, Saturday. At first, Kasperskaya had doubts about the capabilities of the police to find and return her son, but acquaintances from the special services convinced her of the need to appeal to the security forces.

The kidnappers spoke only with Natalia. She and Ashmanov sat in a room with operatives, and Kaspersky nervously embroidered along the corridor. For the freedom of Ivan, they demanded €3 million banknotes of €500, which for operatives was the first reason to doubt the professionalism of the criminals - a small amount of ransom, the demand for large banknotes, which are easier to mark and find faster. In addition, the kidnappers often called - several times a day - and talked for a relatively long time, two to three minutes. One of the requirements is that Ivan's girlfriend must transfer the money. Kasperskaya convinced the kidnappers that the girl's parents would not allow this. Then they agreed that Ashmanov would transfer the money, but this did not suit Kaspersky. As a result, both Evgeny Kaspersky and Natalya Kasperskaya and Ashmanov collected €3 million in €500 bills and began to wait again.

As it became known later, law enforcement officers named the Savelyev family, consisting of the head of the Nikolai family (born in 1949), his wife Lyudmila (born in 1947) and their son Nikolai (born in 1981), as the kidnappers of the 20-year-old son Yevgeny and Natalya Kaspersky. In addition to the Savelyev family, the group of kidnappers included two friends of Nikolai Jr. for 29-30 years each.

It is known about the kidnappers that they are Muscovites, they took great care of dogs - two pets of the bourbul breed. Eyewitnesses claim that the mistress of the family was absorbed in caring for her four-legged friends. At the same time, the neighbors never noticed the thirst for profit in the Savelyev couple - they never shook. The father of the family drove an old Lexus, his son - in an ancient Mercedes, lived poorly, although they tried to do business, the MK newspaper reported. The family^[1].

According to the agency's source, the motive for the crime of Savelyev and their friends was the desire to pay off the ransom received for loans made in one of the banks.

The attackers searched for a potential victim for ransom on the Internet. Their choice fell on Ivan Kaspersky after they found his home and work addresses on his Vkontakte page.

At the same time, according to the Kommersant newspaper, the abduction was organized by a repeatedly convicted "professional criminal," and the attackers followed the young man for several months, choosing a scheme for committing a crime.

The interlocutors of LifeNews said that the abduction was carried out "unprofessionally." At about 8:15 am, Ivan was filmed by surveillance cameras in the Strogino metro station closest to his place of work, and at about 9 am the kidnappers forced him to call his relatives and transfer the conditions for a ransom of 3 million euros.

The second evidence of the unprofessionalism of the criminals, law enforcement officers called the content of the prisoner in the same house in the garden partnership "Grove" near Sergiev Posad, where they lived themselves.

• On the evening of April 21, 2011, LifeNews reported that a ransom was paid to Ivan Kaspersky's kidnappers, the amount of which was not disclosed. After the prisoner's release, law enforcement sources said the media had been misinformed to reassure the kidnappers.

In an interview with RSN, Natalya Kasperskaya said that her son was not tortured and kept in handcuffs locked in a bathhouse. The kidnappers constantly changed the phone numbers from which they made ransom calls. While law enforcement agencies were releasing the young man, she and her husband "sat on Petrovka in a separate room and waited for the kidnapper to call." On the last day, the criminal did not get in touch, and I. Kaspersky's parents found out that it was over, after the information appeared in the media.

"On Sunday, Easter, we were still waiting for the call, but we have already seen that the operatives are increasingly conferring without our participation, they were clearly preparing for something," Ashmanov says. "This is a very dangerous moment when vectors diverge: operas need to grab the kidnappers, and parents need to return the kidnapped child alive and well." After lunch, the operatives said that there would be no more calls, the kidnappers were calculated and caught, now they are going after Ivan, who is no longer in danger. The operation ended in the late afternoon. Ivan was released. Five participants in the abduction were detained (three are members of the same family), four of them are now under arrest, an investigation is underway. Evgenia and Natalya Kasperskaya and Ashmanov were invited to the office of the head of the department, congratulated and offered to celebrate the happy event with vodka with heavily cut sausage and cheese. The mother saw Ivan only at 4 o'clock in the morning, before that the testimony was taken from him.

• According to the official information of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Ivan Kaspersky was released from the hands of the kidnappers only on Sunday, April 24, 2011. By this time, his whereabouts had already been registered on a working mobile phone. Information about this was published by the official representative of the capital's police department Viktor Biryukov. According to law enforcement officers, Ivan Kaspersky's condition is "satisfactory."

According to official information from the police department, the release was carried out as a result of a military operation by the FSB, MUR and special forces. The operation in the area of ​ ​ Sergiev Posad "took place without a single shot."

The kidnappers were assigned a meeting to hand over the ransom in Moscow, where the full Savelyev family and one of their accomplices went. The vehicles they were driving were stopped to check documents and the attackers were detained.

At the same time, another capture group entered the territory of the garden farm, where the prisoner was kept. Ivan Kaspersky was discovered in the bathhouse building, where he was guarded by another accomplice of the Savelyev family.

At the same time, an Interfax source in law enforcement agencies reported that the kidnappers "were promised money, but at the time of transferring part of the required amount, an intermediary was first detained, and then several more accomplices in the crime."

In total, during the operation of the security forces, five alleged kidnappers were detained. Law enforcement officers did not disclose the names of the detainees, but reported that they included a possible organizer of the crime. According to the representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin, a criminal case was initiated on the fact of the abduction of Ivan Kaspersky under the articles "kidnapping" and "extortion."

Natalia Kasperskaya, in her Facebook profile, thanked those who conducted the operation to free her son.

"MURovtsy

need to erect a monument! The FSB also helped a lot. Thanks to everyone who supported us during this difficult time!, " 'she

wrote.

• Eugene Kaspersky wrote in his blog:

"The company quickly grew into one of the world's largest vendors, but I stayed in the good old days when all the people were brothers."

In his opinion, when abducting Ivan, the criminals used open data from social networks, he urged parents to make sure that children did not publish too much on the Internet.

Everything is not so simple, Ashmanov believes, because Ivan indicated the old address on social networks, this house has long been demolished.

"I am sure that all the information for the performers was collected by customers, perhaps even one of their own, but the investigation did not go further than catching the kidnappers," Ashmanov complains. "They did not dig in the direction of the FSO officer, who was detained along with this gang."

And there is no one else to dig. Kaspersky after the release of Ivan appealed to the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev with a request to reward seven officers who were directly involved in the release of their son. Awarded peculiar. All seven operatives have not been recertified, Ashmanov says. At 38 Petrovka, all Forbes questions related to kidnapping were refused to answer and redirected to the Investigative Committee of Russia. The request there remained unanswered^[1].

Ashmanov did not rule out that the ultimate goal of the bandits was not a ransom at all.

"I think they wanted to put pressure on Yevgeny Kaspersky or Natalia, the shareholders of Kaspersky Lab," he argues. "Perhaps we never heard the true demands

."

2012:16% purchase from German antivirus company G Data

On October 15, 2012, it became known that Natalya Kasperskaya, who owns the InfoWatch holding, acquired a 16.8% stake in the German antivirus company G Data Software AG.

The shares were bought from several former minority shareholders, notably a Berlin venture capital firm. On October 23, at the annual meeting of GData shareholders, Natalya Kasperskaya will be elected to the board of directors of the German company.

The collaboration between Natalia Kasperskaya and G Data began in 1996, when the co-founder of the German company Kai Figge offered Natalia a partnership at CeBIT in Hanover. Then Natalya headed the antivirus company Kaspersky Lab, and the two antivirus manufacturers agreed on technological cooperation.

According to Natalya Kasperskaya herself, for many years she watched G Data and believes that it "deserves more international success." "In a few years, G Data has made a major technological leap. As a member of the board of directors of G Data, I will strengthen the company's highest reputation in the international market, and I also want to bring my knowledge and experience in the antivirus industry to the company, "Natalia said.

As the InfoWatch press service commented to Tadviser, the company has long looked towards European companies, and this acquisition fits into plans for a continuation in this market. Moreover, this is not the last acquisition, but the press service refused to comment in more detail. Further plans to increase the package in G data are also unknown, as is the cost of the acquisition.

2015: Establishment of a farm

As TAdviser found out, in the fall of 2015, Natalya Kasperskaya established the Green Lamb peasant farm. The farm is located in the Moscow region, in picturesque places of the Serpukhov district, Natalya Kasperskaya confirmed to TAdviser. Read more in a separate article.

2017: Head of the Information Security Committee

On August 2, 2017, Natalya Kasperskaya, President of the InfoWatch Group of Companies (GC), was elected head of the Committee on, information security created in the Association of Software Product Developers Domestic software"." The committee was formed as part of the implementation of the Digital Economy program, of the Russian Federation which defines the goals, objectives, directions and timing of the implementation of the main state policy measures to create the necessary conditions for development in. Russia digital economy

2018: Natalya Kasperskaya became the owner of Neklis Bank

In February 2018, Natalya Kasperskaya, CEO of InfoWatch, spoke about how she was forced to become the owner of Neklis Bank. According to her, the deal was not carried out from a good life: the credit institution is a "big headache." Read more here.

2020

Loss of hundreds of millions of rubles due to revocation of the bank's license

In January 2020, it became known that Natalya Kasperskaya lost several hundred million rubles due to the revocation of her license from Neklis Bank. The president of the InfoWatch group of companies herself spoke about this in a conversation with Kommersant.

According to her, the mentioned losses include a deposit, as well as funds that were made as part of additional capitalization.

I was still recapitalizing, because the management convinced me that in order to maintain a universal license, it was necessary to recapitalize. At the end of 2018, I contributed another amount to bring capital to 1 billion rubles, Kasperskaya said.

According to her, for two years she tried to deal with the problems at Neklis Bank and understood why "the Central Bank is so ruthlessly mowing down small banks." As a result, Kasperskaya, as she herself claims, sent a memorandum to the regulator, in which she asked for help to deal with the situation in the credit institution. She wrote about this on her page on the social network Facebook.

After the audit that the Bank of Russia conducted in October 2019, "significant violations" and "many irreparable problems... with a long history" were identified in Neklis Bank, she added.

Natalya Kaspersky says that she will not take any action in connection with the revocation of the license from Neklis Bank and recalled that she was not related to the financial sector, and called it "an unhappy trip to the banking region."

Commenting on the TASS situation, Kasperskaya said that now "nothing is required of her."^[2]

I am the affected party, like any bank depositor. I lost quite a lot of money. This is now a matter for the Central Bank. A temporary administration will be appointed, the Deposit Insurance Agency will come and deal with the assets, the entrepreneur told the news agency.

State award for the development of the Russian segment of the Internet

At the end of August 2020, Natalya Kasperskaya was awarded state awards. The President Russia Vladimir Putin awarded them the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, for their contribution to the formation and development of the Russian segment. Internet 

2022

Ex-CEO of Neklis Bank wrote a statement to the police against Natalya Kasperskaya

As it became known on January 19, 2022, the former board Neklis-bank of directors Sergei Boriskin, who is under arrest, wrote a statement to the police against the former shareholder of the credit institution Natalya Kasperskaya. The document is addressed to the head of the main investigation department of the Main Directorate MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia for To Moscow Viktor Gorodkov.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, which got acquainted with a copy of Sergei Boriskin's statement, he asks the Ministry of Internal Affairs to check the co-owner of the bank. In a statement, he asked for an investigation into Natalia Kasperskaya's "illegal actions."

By January 2022, the police are investigating two criminal cases of fraud, Boriskin's lawyer Vitaly Babayev explained to the newspaper. According to one of them, the banker and his deputy Natalia Akulova are accused of withdrawing assets from the bank. The investigation believes that they withdrew customer funds by issuing unsecured loans to individuals who are controlled by them. Ex-leaders of Neklis Bank were arrested on charges of causing damage to the bank of 1.3 billion rubles.

In another case, which was initiated against unidentified persons, the banker is a witness. The case refers to the circumstances of the receipt of subordinated loans by Neklis Bank, as well as a personal loan to Boriskin from the Cypriot company Kaspersky Organat Financial Limited - through it she later became the owner of the bank, Babayev said. According to him, Kasperskaya demanded additional qualifications for Boriskin's actions under the article "Organization of a criminal community or participation in it." Boriskin said that there are signs of fraud in the actions of the ex-co-owner of the bank, and also stressed that he paid off the debt, follows from his statement.

According to Natalia Kasperskaya, she is involved in the Boriskin case as a victim, and she knows nothing about the statement. It is known that Kasperskaya provided Neklis Bank and Boriskin with a subordinated loan for $10 million and a loan for $20 million. At the time they were issued, Kasperskaya did not own the bank.^[3]

Inclusion in the list of 25 main persons of state digitalization according to TAdviser

In January 2022, it was included in the list of 25 main persons of state digitalization of Russia according to TAdviser.

Inclusion of GR activities in the Russian IT market in the TAdviser review

In April 2022, TAdviser released a detailed review of Government Relations (GR) practices in the Russian IT industry. It contains information on how GR functions are organized in IT companies, who have the strongest GRs in the market, examples of the most successful lobbying stories and much more. Based on a survey of GR specialists, Natalya Kasperskaya in her review became one of the most significant figures in the industry when it comes to representing interests in the authorities. Read more here.

TAdviser interview

Until recently, the Russian IT market was overheated, its growth was due to significant purchases of expensive Western solutions and excessive development of not always high-quality digital products, said Natalya Kasperskaya, chairman of the board of the Domestic Software Association, president of the InfoWatch group of companies. In an interview with TAdviser editor-in-chief Alexander Levashov, she spoke about the ongoing structural changes in the market and the emergence of an "abyss" of new tasks in the field of information security, which, in turn, will lead to a radical revision of approaches to the business of information security funds providers. Read more here.

Exit from the capital of the information security company Cezurity

In December 2022, it became known about the withdrawal of InfoWatch holding and its owner Natalia Kasperskaya from the capital of the information security company Cezurity. This is evidenced by the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRUL). Read more here.

2023

Creation of Ecoferma Full Cat

On January 24, 2023, the Ecoferma Full Cat company was registered. Its only founder is Natalya Kasperskaya, President of the InfoWatch Group of Companies and Chairman of the Board of the Association of Software Developers of Domestic Software. Read more here.

Involvement by the bankruptcy court of Neklis Bank

On May 29, 2023, it became known that the Moscow Arbitration Court brought InfoWatch President Natalya Kasperskaya to the bankruptcy case of Neklis Bank in accordance with her own statement.

According to the economic information agency Prime, Organat Financial Limited, owned by Kaspersky, was also involved in the process. This structure, according to the case file, since May 2017 has been a member of Neklis Bank with a 64 percent stake in the authorized capital.

The court ruling says that Kasperskaya is the beneficiary of Organat on the basis of the declaration of approval of trust on August 1, 2015. At the same time, Oragant is managed by a nominal owner in the interests of Kaspersky. Thus, both Organat and Kasperskaya themselves are controlling persons of Neklis Bank. It is also noted that, taking part in the process, Kasperskaya and Organat Financial Limited "exercise their legitimate interest in the proper formation and spending of the bankruptcy estate, as well as in protecting their rights in the framework of the bank's bankruptcy case."

Earlier, the Moscow Arbitration Court declared Neklis-Bank insolvent (bankrupt) - bankruptcy proceedings were opened against it. And on February 28, 2023, the state corporation Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) sent a statement to the court to bring to subsidiary liability the former leaders of Neklis-Bank - Natalia Akulova, Dmitry Alferov, Sergei Boriskin, Vitaly Larichev, Elena Petrova and Oleg Umansky. It is said that they signed and (or) approved the conclusion of loan agreements with "persons knowingly unable to fulfill their obligations." The preliminary amount of subsidiary liability is 2 billion rubles.^[4]

Natalya Kasperskaya became the owner of 5% of the developer of the Sintelli AI platform for medical chemistry

InfoWatch President Natalya Kasperskaya became the owner of 5% of Sintelli. The corresponding entry in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRUL) appeared on November 20, 2023. Read more here.

2024: Re-election as a member of the board of ARPP "Domestic Software"

During the annual meeting of the Association of Software Product Developers "Domestic Software," the composition of the organization's board was re-elected. It includes representatives of large players in the domestic IT industry, representatives of the SKB Kontur company said on April 18, 2024. Natalya Kasperskaya was re-elected a member of the board. Read more here.

Family

Natalia Ivanovna has two children from her first marriage and two from her second. Natalya Kasperskaya has repeatedly stated that four children are not so many. And, if there was an opportunity earlier, she would have given birth to more.

Daughter Masha was born on March 5, 2009, the girl's weight was 4 kg, height - 55 cm.

After publishing a message on the ITpedia website that Natalya Kasperskaya was celebrating her birthday on February 5, readers had the idea to give something to the respected master of the IT market. Russia Being limited in funds, they decided to donate a list of names for Natalia's fourth child. It was not known for certain who Natalia was waiting for - a girl or a boy. Therefore, the list of names spontaneously began to include both female and male. This may be an accident, but the name Maria, which the child eventually received, was on the ITpedia reader list long before her birthday.

• Traian is a real imperial Roman name, consonant with the professional interests of Natalia Ivanovna
• Clave - no comment
• Bagomir - bringing peace to software filled with bugs
• Optimizer - consonant with the "optimizer" (the type of activity of Natalia's husband - Igor Ashmanov)
• Aipion -  there's speculation IPO is Natalia's coveted target 
• Aytislav - Glory to Information Technology
• Insider - consonant with Natalia's professional interests
• Virusiliy is a derivative on behalf of Vasily and the word "virus"
• Yuesbina - from USB - the main tool of insiders, with whom Natalya Ivanovna is fighting
• Avira is the name of the antivirus, quite suitable for the name of a person
• Folder is a folder - a man with this name is doomed to become a good dad
• Exenias - from exe executable file extension
• Kav - for son - from KAV - Kaspersky AntiVirus
• Pussycats - for daughter - from KIS - Kaspersky Internet Security
• Casperit - for  a son - is short for last name and IT
• Mashka! - just Maria, without reference to IT and profession.
• Runetta Igorevna - sonorous
• Verusoid is a derivative of the name Vera and the word "virus"
• IvaNKa is a derivative of the Patronymic, Name and Surname of Natalia Ivanovna, very respected by me
• Skyper is a derivative of the Skype program, as well as meaning free communication with the whole world without borders
• Blutus or Blutus - you yourself understand what the name is from
• Connectin - derivative of Constantine and connect
• Immunitis - with strong immunity
• Camputador and Camputador - Spanish computer names echoing Toreador

Hobby

He is fond of playing the guitar, skiing, tourism, reading professional literature, loves to travel in the company of friends and children. Fluent in English and German.

Quotes

• About Eugene Kaspersky as a manager - Kaspersky is not a leader. He is engaged in other activities that have quite little in common with the formal position of "CEO." Since Eugene is the main shareholder of the company, he can appoint himself to any desired position.

• About the crisis in Kaspersky Lab - Unfortunately, over the past 4 years, the Lab has quite strongly focused its product portfolio (in fact) in the field of protection for Windows... The problem is that modern technologies are developing quite quickly - new platforms appear, under which there are either no viruses, or they are very rare. They need new types of protection... Another threat to the market is free antiviruses, which, although gradually, are gaining more and more popularity... The third problem that I would pay attention to is the so-called targeted attacks. I.e. attacks pursuing a specific target. For example, special Trojans written for Alfa Bank systems. Antiviruses are powerless against such threats. New solutions are needed. I do not exclude that they will come not from old market players, but from newcomers... At one time, I convinced Kaspersky and other shareholders that it was necessary to attract external capital just in order to buy businesses and technologies in new interesting areas. We even managed to attract an investor, but, unfortunately, Kaspersky blocked the idea of ​ ​ development through acquisitions... To be honest, I do not see drivers of new growth within the company that would give LC the opportunity to grow organically faster than the market. And therefore, the growth rate of the business will continue to decline.
• About your own employment - Basically, I am engaged in the affairs of the company. Another 2-3 times a week there are questions about the Kribrum project - this is such a project for automatic monitoring of social networks, InfoWatch has a solid share in it. In third place is Nanosemantic, a company that works in the field of artificial intelligence. She is still known for her "massive" project - http://www.iii.ru. Now we are redoing it quite a lot and by the summer we plan to roll out something completely new. And the last week, for example, all my time was occupied by the exhibition Tsebit... I still have a couple of small projects, but I take significantly less personal participation in them.
• About my teachers - the Head of Kami - Alexei Borisovich Remizov - I consider my first business teacher. My second husband Igor Ashmanov, who has a number of high-tech businesses, had a huge influence on my formation as a businessman (or businesswoman??):).
• About the female president of Russia - We have so many women in the government. Two ministers and a vice speaker, this is not counting the pile of officials with a lower rank. Perhaps the next president will be a woman. Just for this, a worthy candidate must (more precisely, must) appear. So far, such politicians are not visible on our horizon.
• About the meeting with Vladimir Putin - Just three weeks ago, several representatives of the IT community of software developers (PO) met with the Prime Minister in the Novosibirsk Academgorodok and proposed a number of measures to stimulate domestic software development. The prime minister accepted our proposals, and, as far as I know, the relevant instructions have already been given to the ministries. In particular, we proposed introducing mandatory reporting of government departments and state-owned companies on the volume of purchased domestic and imported software. They proposed some measures to support state patenting abroad, as well as the ability for enterprises in the high-tech sector to invest in development without the risk of being closed by the tax office for losses. The prime minister promised to think about these two points. There were several other proposals - to stimulate the export of high-tech products, to develop self-determining organizations, etc. The prime minister accepted these proposals and gave instructions to the responsible ministers.
• About morality in business - You need to conduct business, guided by certain high moral values, simply because it does not work otherwise. If you want to achieve serious results, you must follow the principles of honor and honesty. " For her, "it's very important that the team works. One person can't do anything at all! In something I understand better, in something - worse, in something I do not understand anything at all - and here it is important to be able to listen to the opinion of others.

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