Kaspersky to support IGCI

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

Kaspersky Lab has agreed to work closely with the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI). This was announced after a meeting between Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and Co-Founder of Kaspersky Lab, Ronald Noble, INTERPOL Secretary General, and Noboru Nakatani, IGCI Executive Director. 

Kaspersky Lab has also agreed to help with the IGCI's capacity building efforts to increase the ability of law-enforcement agencies worldwide to deal with cyberthreats in general.

Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman & CEO, Kaspersky Lab, said, “I am most pleased with the outcome of this meeting. I have been pushing for the creation of what I used to call an ‘Internet-INTERPOL’ for over a decade now, and at last it has finally come to pass. It should come as no surprise that we wholeheartedly support this initiative, testified by our plans to second some of our top analysts over to the IGCI in Singapore. Soon cybercriminals will have nowhere to hide – not being able to hole up in this or that country, as they have been able to up till now. The net is closing in on cybercriminals – both the proverbial one and the Internet.”

Nakatani, Executive Director, IGCI, said, “The strong support for the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation expressed by Eugene Kaspersky, the founder and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, will provide law enforcement in our 190-member countries with the expertise to generate actionable intelligence to protect cyberspace and to bring cybercriminals to justice.”

IGCI will equip international cyber police forces with the tools and knowledge needed to better tackle the cybercrime threats of the 21st century – for example, by identifying criminals....See More