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Kaspersky Commended for providing customer-focused, holistic solutions for cybersecurity by Frost & Sullivan

In light of its ongoing examination of the worldwide mechanical (OT/ICS) cybersecurity market, Frost and Sullivan perceives Kaspersky with the 2020 Global Company of the Year Award for propelling its vision of making a really predominant modern cybersecurity arrangement. Kaspersky is a pioneer in dissecting market patterns and creating redid arrangements that adequately address key trouble spots inside the mechanical climate. It has made huge steps in the course of recent years by consolidating one of a kind innovations, for example, Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection (MLAD) and Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Feeds in its answers.

Because of its combination and OT frameworks, it dispatched the Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity arrangement. The arrangement incorporates a wide scope of items and administrations, for example, Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Nodes to secure modern endpoints and Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks for resource and correspondence disclosure for situational mindfulness, and early mechanical assault and abnormality recognition. Also, it offers security mindfulness and preparing, danger insight, security and weakness appraisals, and oversaw security administrations. Its recognition motors produce various functions, while its connection motor corresponds these nuclear functions into totaled functions that help wipe out superfluous cautions.

"Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity is uniquely placed to address unmet needs such as protecting legacy operating systems on industrial hosts and offering comprehensive network and asset visibility along with well-rounded attack visibility and protection," said Gautham Gnanajothi Global Research Director. "Its Growth Center, Future Technologies, and Innovation Hub departments are perfectly positioned with best-in-class strategic frameworks to assess, develop, and deliver innovative security offerings to support industrial/ OT end users along their digital transformation journey."

Fundamentally, the organization has two committed examination groups; one to help its mechanical arrangements and one for more extensive market-centered cybersecurity megatrends. The Kaspersky Industrial Control Systems - Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) for mechanical arrangements represents considerable authority in working together with controllers and authority norms associations to grow best practices, and examination potential and existing dangers across modern computerization frameworks and the mechanical Internet of Things (IIoT). In the interim, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) centers around more extensive cybersecurity megatrends and reveals digital surveillance crusades, major malware, ransomware, and underground digital criminal patterns over the world.

"The company has established its dominance in a yet uncontested market with emerging technology-based products such as the IoT secure gateway product based on its proprietary operating system KasperskyOS," noted Gnanajothi. "Leveraging superior technical performance, customer service focus, and client relationship, Kaspersky is all set to dominate the industrial (OT/ ICS) cybersecurity market in the long term."

"The protection of industrial organizations is one of our key business priorities. While these organizations enhance their OT security, our goal is to provide them with the solutions and expertise required for their level of maturity. We also understand that complex measures are crucial to ensuring any protection is effective, so Kaspersky's portfolio also includes security services and training to improve expertise among IT security teams and OT engineers, as well as employee awareness. This Frost & Sullivan award confirms that we're on the right track, so we're extremely proud to receive such recognition," commented Georgy Shebuldaev, Head of Growth Center, Kaspersky.

Every year, Frost and Sullivan presents a Company of the Year grant to the association that exhibits greatness regarding development system and execution in its field. The honor perceives a serious level of advancement with items and advances, and the subsequent administration regarding client worth and market infiltration.

Ice and Sullivan Best Practices grants perceive organizations in an assortment of provincial and worldwide business sectors for exhibiting remarkable accomplishment and predominant execution in regions, for example, administration, mechanical advancement, client support, and vital item improvement. Industry investigators analyze market members and measure execution through inside and out meetings, examination, and broad optional exploration to recognize best practices in the business.

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Kaspersky is a global cybersecurity company founded in 1997. Kaspersky's deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into innovative security solutions and services to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, governments and consumers around the globe. The company's comprehensive security portfolio includes leading endpoint protection and a number of specialized security solutions and services to fight sophisticated and evolving digital threats. Over 400 million users are protected by Kaspersky technologies and we help 250,000 corporate clients protect what matters most to them.

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