Kaspersky has released its new sustainability report for H2 2022 and 2023, revealing the key results of the company’s most recent sustainable development initiatives and projects.
The report encompasses five strategic areas “identified as the company’s ESG priorities: safer cyberworld, future tech, safer planet, people empowerment, and ethics and transparency.”
Pursuing its mission to build a safer world for more than 25 years, Kaspersky has been an active contributor to the creation of “a more sustainable world not only by creating protection technologies, but also by investing in numerous ESG projects.”
In 2023, Kaspersky presented the company’s first sustainability report, which “was drafted in accordance with international GRI and SASB standards.”
Kaspersky plays a pivotal role in “shaping a cyber resilient future by combating threats with our world-class security solutions and services.”
Operating in more than 200 countries and territories, Kaspersky says it “gathers real-time intelligence from across the globe, dealing with an extensive array of security challenges in the threat landscape.”
These efforts result in the “detection of 411,000 new malicious files every day.”
Overall, Kaspersky prevented “more than 437 million cyberattacks during the reporting period.”
One of the most serious threats “to businesses of all sizes is ransomware.”
To protect organizations from this urgent threat, Kaspersky experts “discovered 43 new ransomware families and more than 23,000 of its modifications throughout H2 2022 and 2023.”
In 2023, cybercriminals attempted more than 19,000 attacks against users, including 53,000 corporate users and about 6,000 users associated with small and medium-sized businesses.”
Kaspersky researchers have also noted “a steady increase in the number of stalkerware attacks − programs used to covertly monitor victims through their personal devices.”
In particular, Kaspersky security solutions “detected more than 31,000 attacks on users worldwide.”
The victims of such attacks “are most frequently women in abusive relationships.”
Kaspersky is working to address “the issue of cyberstalking by partnering with non-profit organizations, industry experts, research companies, and government agencies around the world.”
In addition to shielding organizations and users worldwide against notorious cyberthreats, Kaspersky is also taking “another step towards the cyber resilient era, pioneering its Cyber Immunity approach in the IT industry.”
Leveraging its longstanding and successful experience, Kaspersky is creating cyber-physical systems that are “secure by design: inherently safe and secure with no need for additional cybersecurity software or managing protection tools. During the reporting period, two Kaspersky solutions running on KasperskyOS — Kaspersky Secure Remote Workspace and Kaspersky Automotive Secure Gateway — received awards at the World Internet Conference in China in 2022.”
As innovation is a crucial aspect of a company’s growth, Kaspersky has been constantly focused on developing “new long-term cybersecurity technologies, filing patent applications in relevant areas.”
During the 2022–2023 reporting period, Kaspersky “obtained 231 patents for its inventions. Additionally, while enhancing our products, the company actively participates in the development of the open-source movement. In 2022-2023 alone, Kaspersky published 20 open-source projects granting the entire developer community access to its technologies.”
Throughout the reporting period, the Kaspersky Global Transparency Initiative celebrated its five-year anniversary and “continued its development, arriving in the Middle East and Africa, with Kaspersky Transparency Centers opened in Saudi Arabia and Rwanda.”
From H2 2022 to 2023, Transparency Centers were also opened in Italy and the Netherlands, serving as facilities “for trusted partners to review of the company’s code, software updates and threat detection rules. In October 2023, at the Internet Governance Forum, held under the auspices of the United Nations (UN), Kaspersky also presented its ethical principles for the development and use of machine learning-based systems created within the framework of the GTI. These and other developments are reflected in a special interactive project about the company’s GTI.”