Overview
Lobbying Costs
250,000€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
5
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Kaspersky
EU Transparency Register
119828415703-30 First registered on 21 Jan 2015
Goals / Remit
Kaspersky is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions, with a holding registered in the United Kingdom. Since its inception, Kaspersky has followed a global vision and focused on international markets. This strategy helped the company to grow into a global corporation.
Kaspersky has a corporate client base of more than 270,000 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
Digital Single Market, NIS Directive, Cybersecurity Act, e-evidence proposal, ePrivacy Directive and GDPR, Horizon 2020.
Address
Head Office
Leningradskoe Shosse, 39A/3
Moscow 125212
RUSSIA, FEDERATION OF -
People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2
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
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/business/professional associations
Subcategory
Companies & groups
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Networking
Affiliation
The ENISA Industry 4.0 Cyber Security Experts Group (EICS) https://resilience.enisa.europa.eu/eics-experts-group
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
250,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
325,675 € (Source: Grant ID 740712 Horizon 2020 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/210223/factsheet/en)
Other financial info
Kaspersky is a member of COMPACT project and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 740712 (https://www.compact-project.eu/en).
In this 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.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other 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. Kaspersky is also involved into discussion of some cybersecurity initiatives through its membership in the advisory groups (e.g. the ENISA Industry 4.0 Cyber Security Experts Group (EICS).
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 announced the relocation of the cyberthreat related data of our users in Europe, Canada and the U.S. with other regions to follow;
- 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 and Madrid, while in 2020 two more Transparency Centers in São Paulo and Kuala Lumpur 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.
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)