KL products protect over 300 million systems - in some 200,000 companies (and some government agencies) – worldwide. The executives’ presence on campus also serves the company’s constant need to find new talent, to add to the ranks of engineers employed in offices in nearly 30 countries. “So the bad news for governments, enterprises, companies is very good news for IT security engineers.” Such a charged environment means “there is a very high demand for IT security engineers – in the future it will get even worse,” continued Kaspersky, who currently employs some 2,300 such specialists. “We’re here to save the world, to save cyberspace and to help you, university, to have more students graduate as IT security experts,” he told a morning session on a day when other KL experts also presented, including Roel Schouwenberg, a senior U.S.-based anti-virus researcher who described 2012 as the ‘year of cyberwarfare’ when governments spoke, openly for the first time, of offensive capabilities. Since then, in near-incessant globe-trotting he warns audiences of mushrooming cyber threats from bad actors and even states tempted by seemingly low-risk cyber-subterfuges – while issuing an ardent call to arms for more IT security experts. After that embargo-busting, Kaspersky said: “I said thank you Hollywood, you opened my mouth.” The subject of cyber-terrorism, for instance, was forbidden at his company, that is until the film, Die Hard 4 (released in the US as Live Free or Die), broke the seal on the subject for the popular imagination grossing nearly $400 million along the way. Some possible future scenarios scare him so much, he prefers not to talk about them. ![]() “We live in digital world, a cyber-world, and these systems are all around us, unfortunately they are very vulnerable, we live in a very vulnerable world,” he told an audience of students and industry professionals during the school’s recent CyberSecurity Awareness Week (CSAW), of which the Kaspersky event was a part. ![]() His mission, simply, is to “save the world” – from growing vulnerabilities from cyber-sabotage, cyber-terrorism and even cyber-war. Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder and current CEO of one of the world’s largest IT security companies, Kaspersky Lab (KL), is a worried man – and he thinks students at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) can help.
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