Kaspersky Labs recently signed a partnership with Interpol. It is just not true, and they use the media to attack us without having any proof or real data. The US government in 2017 asked all of its departments to stop using Kaspersky anti-virus citing an intelligence risk (fearing involvement of the Russian government). In my presentation, I said that we are able to process about 99.999% of all the incoming data, but we don’t call it AI. We use a lot of machine learning, or big data processing. It can recognize only human faces, not horses or dogs. It is not actually Artificial Intelligence - it is just self-learning or machine learning, based on big data processing. Be sceptical about things.ĭuring the launch of your new Transparency Centre in Malaysia, you described Artificial Intelligence (AI) as marketing. Even if you know the sender and find an unexpected mail, then call back (to verify). For individual users, you need to have good (internet) security installed. We also provide schools with materials about cyber security, to educate children about safety on the internet.

We need to reach out to users and create awareness. How do we as users tackle the issue of cyber attacks? Given India’s size and growing number of internet users, the vulnerability to cyber crime is also high. After that, come other south-east Asian countries, which are in the deep red zone.

Russia is yellow, and India is light red. Then you have the lighter green areas in Europe. The safest region in the world is northern Europe, which is deep green in colour (green being the safest, and red unsafe). How does India rank in terms of internet safety? There was no investment, but there was a lot of hard work, initially.

I wanted to continue working - so I started Kaspersky. Soon, I had a collection of such viruses.Īfter that, I stopped working with the government and got a job with an IT company (as a cyber security expert), which later collapsed. I told my colleagues about this, and in a couple of weeks, another colleague came to me saying a floppy disk of his was infected. So, I analyzed the codes and understood them. I was just curious about what it was and how they (viruses) work. I was a software engineer, working with the Soviet Union military, and my computer was infected in 1989.

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