Kaspersky targets cyber-espionage

Against a background where it has delivered a range of endpoint protection suites and targeted security solutions, security solutions vendor, Kaspersky Lab, has used its annual CyberSecurity Summit to unveil its vision of enterprise security focused on how enterprise IT security affects businesses worldwide.

This change in direction comes at a time when there have been significant changes to the IT security landscape, including how sophisticated attacks and complex cyber-espionage campaigns targeting corporations have now become `the new normal’.  

Another area of focus was how the IT industry also faces a rising tide of advanced threats targeting financial services networks – a segment which the company sees as requiring specialised security solutions. Much of the discussion at the event was kicked off by the keynote presentation `How Cyberwarfare Impacts Enterprise IT Security’, delivered by Tom Ridge, Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Kaspersky used the event to announce several new security technologies, planned solutions and business strategies that it expects to see generating new revenue streams during the coming year.

To equip enterprises with protection from advanced threats, the company’s solution portfolio is now built on a foundation of threat intelligence and an ability to build technologies in-house instead of through acquisition. It claims these two core company principles produce measurable advantages in protection for customers, and are central components of technology innovation to address critical areas of enterprise IT.

The company’s enterprise security portfolio now includes a new expansion of Kaspersky Security for Virtualisation, which brings security technologies to virtual endpoints that were previously difficult to secure without sacrificing network performance. The recently-announced Kaspersky Fraud Prevention platform was also highlighted as a way to combat cyber-attacks against financial service providers.

The portfolio of enterprise security solutions is now complemented by Security Intelligence Services, including threat data analysis and reporting, Botnet tracking and cybersecurity education programs that harness the company’s threat intelligence to enhance protection of its business partners.

Kaspersky also discussed new opportunities for enterprise security growth, namely in the area of critical and industrial infrastructure protection. These include not only products and solutions which will provide versatile protection for SCADA servers and engineering workstations, but also PLC protection, network-level and embedded security.

, said: “These days cybercrime is no longer about stealing relatively small sums of money from ordinary users,” said Eugene Kaspersky, chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab. “As the IT security landscape evolves rapidly and gets more and more complex, the number of sophisticated cyber-espionage campaigns targeting giant corporations is also sharply rising. Criminals are increasingly elaborate in designing their attacks and always try to exploit the weakest link in terms of security, which means that supply chains and contractors are targeted as well. This means that today threat intelligence is one of the top priorities for CIOs and CSOs, who need to ensure their defences are flexible enough to withstand not just contemporary threats, but also the coming generation of cyber dangers.”

The company’s enterprise security portfolio is built around its core security intelligence, which encompasses endpoint protection technologies, a cloud-based network of global threat intelligence and a multi-national team of experts who discovered sophisticated cyber-espionage campaigns such as Flame, Gauss, Red October, Winnti, NetTraveler, Kimsuky, Icefog and The Mask/Careto.

The foundation of the enterprise security portfolio, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, provides a tiered security approach based on a single integrated platform. This includes application, device and web control tools, data encryption, mobile endpoint security and MDM, and systems and patch management. Kaspersky Lab also offers dedicated solutions for File and Mail servers, Storage Systems, Internet Gateways, Collaboration Software and solutions for virtual machines in VMware, Citrix and Microsoft virtual environments.