Overview
Lobbying Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.6 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Kaspersky Labs Limited
EU Transparency Register
119828415703-30 First registered on 21 Jan 2015
Goals / Remit
Kaspersky is a global cybersecurity and digital privacy company founded in 1997, with a holding registered in the United Kingdom. Kaspersky’s deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into innovative solutions and services to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, governments and consumers around the globe. The company’s comprehensive security portfolio includes leading endpoint protection, specialized security products and services, as well as Cyber Immune solutions to fight sophisticated and evolving digital threats.
Kaspersky has a corporate client base of more than 250,000 companies located around the globe, ranging from small and medium-sized businesses all the way up to large governmental and commercial organizations. Over 400 million people worldwide are protected by Kaspersky products and technologies.Main EU files targeted
NIS Directive, Cybersecurity Strategy, Cybersecurity Act, Cyber Resilience Act, AI Act, Digital Compass, Digital Single Market, Digital Market Act, e-evidence proposal, ePrivacy Directive and GDPR, Legislative proposal to prevent and combat specific forms of gender-based violence / cyberviolence, Horizon 2020.
Address
Head Office
5 Merchant Square
London W2 1AY
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
Kaspersky Labs GmbH Despag-Straße 3
Ingolstadt
GERMANYWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 50% 1 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.6
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The number of people indicated above are PA/GR managers who are directly involved into Kaspersky's advocacy activities on the EU level. Other Kaspersky's specialists may be also involved on the case-by-case basis.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
200,000€ - 299,999€
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Grant Project IoTAC - Horizon 2020 - Grant ID 952684 102,559€ Grant Project GEIGER - Horizon 2020 - Grant ID 883588 207,289€ Grant Project DeStalk - Grant ID 101105527 332,481€ Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant Project TRAPEZE - Horizon 2020 - Grant ID 883464 240,225€ Grant Project CitySCAPE - Horizon 2020 - Grant ID 883321 194,457€ Grant Project IoTAC - Horizon 2020 - Grant ID 952684 302,116€ Grant Project Consent - Project ID 101049565 139,385€ Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount house of policy 100,000€ - 199,999€ Intermediaries for current year
Name house of policy Closed year Costs
200,000€ - 299,999€
Other financial info
Kaspersky is a member of several projects that received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme :
- In the COMPACT project, Kaspersky has developed the GDPR Security Awareness Simulation Game to protect local Public Administration from Cybersecurity Threats) & help local public administrations become more cyber-resilient.
- In the GEIGER project for Small-Medium Enterprises and Micro Enterprises, Kaspersky provides cybersecurity awareness services to the partners, including academic institutions and schools, and protects mobile data of SMEs&MEs
- Other projects with Kaspersky participation: TRAPEZE (Grant agreement ID: 883464), CitySCAPE (Grant agreement ID: 883321), IoTAC (Grant agreement ID: 952684), and DeStalk (Project ID 101005527) and CONSENT (Project ID 101049565). -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
- Organization of online events and panels (European Cyber Policy Forum)
- Policy contributions and blogposts: https://www.kaspersky.com/about/policy-blog
- Bi-yearly policy newsletterOther activities
Kaspersky works together with the global IT security community, national and regional law enforcement agencies (e.g. Europol, INTERPOL), as well as Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) worldwide, including taking part in joint cyberthreat investigations and conducting trainings for cybersecurity specialists.
In 2017 Kaspersky launched its Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) for greater transparency and accountability in cybersecurity. The GTI includes:
- Data Care through relocation of Kaspersky's core infrastructure to Switzerland for the utmost data protection and security. We already relocated the cyberthreat related data of our users from Europe, Canada and the U.S. and many Asian countries;
- Dedicated Transparency Centers for greater confidence in and knowledge of cybersecurity products through security briefings and external reviews of the company's source code, software updates and threat detection rules. Our Transparency Centers are located in Zurich, Madrid, São Paulo and Kuala Lumpur while in 2021 one more Transparency Centers in Canada will be launched. https://www.kaspersky.com/transparency-center-offices
- Secure and reliable engineering practices through independent third-party assessment. Kaspersky has successfully passed the SOC 2 audit by one of the 'Big Four' companies (https://www.kaspersky.com/about/compliance-soc2) as well as received the ISO 27001 certification for its data services https://www.kaspersky.com/about/iso-27001.
- Vulnerabilities Management Program through responsible cooperation with security researchers: we run our Bug Bounty Program together with HackerOne and award up to $100,000 for the most critical security flaws found in our systems. We also published our Ethical principles for the Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure, which lay out how we work with researchers and the security community to better manage product security. These principles are aimed at enhancing transparency and efficiency in vulnerability handling and mitigating harm and risks to users. https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/vulnerability-disclosure-ethics/35581/
- Cyber Capacity Building Program: a dedicated training program on product security evaluation to help businesses, government organizations and academic institutions develop skills for assessing their supply chain cyber-resilience. https://www.kaspersky.com/capacity-building
Meetings
Meetings
5 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 03 Jun 2020 Location Brussels Subject Cybersecurity and digital transparency Cabinet Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen Portfolio President Attending - Anthony Whelan (Cabinet member)
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Date 15 May 2020 Location Brussels Subject Cybersecurity (virtual) DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 15 May 2020 Location Brussels Subject Cybersecurity (virtual) DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 07 May 2020 Location Brussels Subject To discuss cybersecurity, privacy and digital transparency Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Alejandro Cainzos (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 Jan 2017 Location Brussels Subject Cybersecurity Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Julian King Portfolio Security Union Attending - Ingrid Bellander-Todino (Cabinet member)