Kaspersky is a global cybersecurity and digital privacy company founded in 1997. Its portfolio spans digital life protection for individuals, business security products and services, and Cyber Immune solutions built around KasperskyOS. The company centers its market position on threat intelligence, security research, and engineering that it translates into software, managed services, and secure-by-design platforms.
Kaspersky addresses consumer protection, small business security, enterprise security operations, hybrid cloud workloads, and industrial or other high-assurance environments. Its portfolio includes subscription plans for personal devices, managed detection and response, threat intelligence, cloud workload protection, and operating system technology for embedded and connected systems.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Kaspersky’s capabilities span endpoint protection, EDR and XDR, managed detection and response, threat intelligence, cloud workload security, industrial cybersecurity, and Cyber Immune architecture. Across these areas, Kaspersky emphasizes multi-layered protection, centralized management, automated detection and response, and expert-led security operations for organizations with different levels of internal security maturity.
Kaspersky also supports integration into broader security and cloud environments. Its threat intelligence portfolio offers out-of-the-box connectors and API-based integration with third-party security tools, while its cloud security portfolio supports native integration with major public cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Products and Services
- Kaspersky Standard: Entry consumer security plan for multi-device protection with real-time antivirus, anti-malware, anti-ransomware, online payment protection, and device performance and privacy features.
- Kaspersky Plus: Consumer security plan that combines device protection with privacy and performance features, including unlimited fast VPN, payment protection, and monitoring for personal and password leaks.
- Kaspersky Premium: Top-tier consumer plan that adds unlimited VPN, password management, identity and privacy features, performance tools, and premium 24/7 remote IT support.
- Kaspersky Safe Kids: Parental control and digital wellbeing app with content filtering, screen time controls, activity reports, and GPS-based location features for families.
- Kaspersky Small Office Security: All-in-one security product for small businesses that protects PCs, Macs, mobile devices, and file servers, with centralized management and bundled capabilities such as password management and secure connectivity.
- Kaspersky Next: Tiered business security product line that scales from core endpoint protection and EDR to advanced XDR and managed XDR options, including Kaspersky Next EDR Foundations, EDR Optimum, XDR Optimum, and MXDR Optimum.
- Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response: Managed security service that provides 24/7 monitoring, proactive threat hunting, incident detection, alert triage, and response across endpoints, networks, cloud, OT workstations, and embedded systems.
- Kaspersky Threat Intelligence: Threat intelligence portfolio centered on the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal, machine-readable threat data feeds, reporting, and integrations that help security teams detect and prioritize emerging threats.
- Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security: Hybrid and public cloud workload security product for Windows and Linux environments that supports virtualization and VDI use cases, unified management, and native API integration with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- KasperskyOS: Microkernel-based operating system created by Kaspersky for internet-enabled embedded systems and other high-assurance environments, designed to enable Cyber Immune secure-by-design solutions.
- Kaspersky Cloud Workload Security: Cloud security ecosystem that brings together Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security and Kaspersky Container Security to protect cloud workloads across hybrid and containerized environments.
- Kaspersky Container Security: Container security platform that protects containerized applications from development through runtime, with image and IaC scanning, compliance checks, and DevSecOps support.
- Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity: Industrial and OT security platform for industrial enterprises and critical infrastructure, delivering network visibility, detection and response, endpoint protection, and risk assessment across operational environments.
Target Customers
Kaspersky targets consumers and families that want device, privacy, identity, and parental-control protection across major desktop and mobile operating systems. It also serves microbusinesses and small businesses that need straightforward deployment, cross-device coverage, and centralized protection without depending on large in-house IT or security teams.
For organizations, Kaspersky targets midsize and large enterprises, security operations teams, cloud-focused businesses, and operators of industrial and critical infrastructure. Its portfolio is also positioned for governments and regulated sectors that need endpoint defense, threat intelligence, managed detection and response, cloud workload protection, OT security, or secure-by-design embedded-system platforms.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Kaspersky maintains a seller presence on AWS Marketplace and supports AWS-based deployment for offerings such as Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security and ready-to-use Kaspersky Security Center images.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Kaspersky documents Azure Marketplace deployment and billing options for Kaspersky Security Center and marketplace-based or BYOL deployment paths for Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security.
- Google Cloud Platform: Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security supports native API integration with Google Cloud Platform, and Kaspersky Security Center cloud deployment documentation includes Google Cloud as a supported environment.
Key People
- Eugene Kaspersky: Chief Executive Officer
- Andrey Tikhonov: Chief Operating Officer
- Elena Milinova: Chief Financial Officer
- Andrey Efremov: Chief Business Development Officer
- Gleb Gritsai: Vice President, Corporate Products
- Igor Kuznetsov: Director, Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT)
- Andrey Suvorov: Head of KasperskyOS Business Unit
- Yuliya Novikova: Head of Digital Footprint Intelligence
- Denis Zenkin: Head of Corporate Communications
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Moscow, Russia
- Employees: 5,500+
- Annual Revenue: US$836 million
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: 30+ regional entities and operating companies, including Kaspersky Lab UK Limited and Aprotech
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Customers’ Choice in 2021 Gartner Peer Insights for Endpoint Protection Platforms. Customers’ Choice in 2021 Gartner Peer Insights for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training.
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Services, Q1 2021.
- IDC: One of the five biggest endpoint security vendors in IDC Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security Market Shares 2024. Vendor “who shaped the year” in IDC Worldwide Consumer Digital Life Protection Market Shares 2024. Major Player in the 2024 IDC MarketScape Modern Endpoint Security vendor assessment for Enterprises. Major Player in the 2024 IDC MarketScape Modern Endpoint Security vendor assessment for Midsize Businesses. Major Player in the 2024 IDC MarketScape Modern Endpoint Security vendor assessment for Small Businesses.
