Kaspersky Lab Triumphs at the Inaugural Inquirer Tech Hero Awards

LONDON, May 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Kaspersky Total Security for Business named Best Security Product

Kaspersky Lab has been crowned winner of the 'Best Security Product' at the first-ever Inquirer Tech Hero Awards. The company's Kaspersky Total Security for Business solution fought off stiff industry competition in the reader-voted awards, which were created to celebrate the best business IT products on the market.

Kaspersky Total Security for Business delivers rigorous protection for corporate IT networks and is Kaspersky Lab's most comprehensive business security solution. As well as offering security for desktops, laptops, file servers and endpoints, its extended systems management tools automate a wide range of administration tasks, saving businesses time and resources. Simple to install and manage, the product delivers advanced protection technologies against all levels of cyberthreats.

Kaspersky has been fighting a high-tech battle against malicious programs for over 18 years, dedicating time and money to researching and designing solutions to combat increasingly complex cyber threats. With more than 400 million users worldwide, the company is the world's largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions and is ranked among the world's top four security vendors.

Kirill Slavin, managing director, UK and Ireland at Kaspersky Lab comments, "It is an honour to be recognised as a leader in our field in the first year of the Inquirer Tech Hero Awards. With Kaspersky Total Security for Business, we're dedicated to offering the most advanced protection, allowing businesses to continue operating safe in the knowledge that their data and systems are fully protected. It is great to see these efforts acknowledged by this award and we want to thank everyone who voted for us."

The annual Inquirer awards gives its readers the opportunity to vote for the IT products, products and people that they believe have been most successful over the past 12 months. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday 19 May in central London.

About Kaspersky Lab 

Kaspersky Lab is the world's largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world's top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 17-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 400 million users worldwide. Learn more at  http://www.kaspersky.co.uk.

* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2013. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2014-2018 Forecast and 2013 Vendor Shares (IDC #250210, August 2014). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2013. 

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