INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kaspersky Lab has announced it is moving a number of its core processes out of Russia and in to Switzerland as it looks to be more
transparent.The Russian firm has said it will relocate "a number of core processes" in the move, including customer data storage and
processing for a number of its biggest regions, including the US and UK.The information will instead now be stored on Kaspersky Lab's new
data centre in Zurich, which was revealed back in March
The Swiss capital will also be the new site for the company's software assembly, and a new Transparency Centre aimed at dispelling fears
that Kaspersky Lab software is being used for surveillance. TransparencyKaspersky Lab hoping to have the transition completed by the end of
next year.Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, said: “In a rapidly changing industry such as ours we have to adapt to the evolving
needs of our clients, stakeholders and partners
Transparency is one such need, and that is why we’ve decided to redesign our infrastructure and move our data processing facilities to
We believe such action will become a global trend for cybersecurity, and that a policy of trust will catch on across the industry as a key
basic requirement.”Kaspersky has come under fire in recent months under allegations that its products were being used to spy on foreign
nations, particularly the US, UK and Lithuania.The company was blocked from working with the US government following a ban from the
Department of Homeland Security last year, which ordered all federal agencies to remove Kaspersky products from their networks.Following
this, Kaspersky Lab committed to a new Global Transparency Initiative that aimed to demonstrate its innocence to the technology industry,
with other actions including setting up an independent review of the company’s source code, software updates and threat detection rules.
