{"id":14369,"date":"2018-08-29T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T13:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14369"},"modified":"2022-05-05T08:25:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T07:25:52","slug":"transparency-status-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/transparency-status-updates\/14369\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Transparency Initiative status update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWe announced the Global Transparency Initiative<\/a> in October 2017. Its purpose: to show the world that we have nothing to hide, and that our customers can trust us. We aimed to prove it, too \u2014 not just ask for trust.<\/p>\n

Over the past few years, we\u2019ve been the subject of a lot of false allegations. Although not a single fact has been presented to support those allegations, we believe it is our responsibility to prove that Kaspersky Lab can, and should, be trusted. There are fundamental reasons to put trust in us, and that\u2019s what our Global Transparency Initiative is all about.<\/p>\n

We will update this post as the project matures.<\/p>\n

Update: August 15, 2019<\/h3>\n

We\u2019re pleased to announce that our third Transparency Center will open in early 2020 in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Like the ones we opened earlier in Zurich and Madrid, this Transparency Center will serve as a trusted facility for our partners and government stakeholders, a place where they can check the source code of our products. CyberSecurity Malaysia, the country\u2019s cybersecurity agency, will host it.<\/p>\n

Our CEO Eugene Kaspersky notes that this Transparency Center, the company\u2019s first in the APAC region, shows our pioneering Global Transparency Initiative, which aims to address the growing demand from partners and government stakeholders for more information on how our products and technologies work, remains on track.<\/p>\n

Update: July 11, 2019<\/h3>\n

Our second Transparency Center opened in Madrid in June for Kaspersky\u2019s customers and partners. We plan on having at least three Transparency Centers worldwide by 2020.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all. An important part of our Global Transparency Initiative, the third-party Service Organization Controls (SOC2 Type 1<\/a>) review of Kaspersky\u2019s cybersecurity risk management controls has been completed. One of the Big Four auditors has reviewed our controls over regular automatic updates of antivirus databases for products for Windows and Unix Servers and concluded that development and release of these databases are protected from unauthorized changes. This serves as yet another confirmation that our products are secure and can be trusted. According to the terms of the contract, we can disclose the report to our clients and regulators upon request<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to that we\u2019re continuing to expand our Bug Bounty program and recently we have joined the Disclose.io movement, which means that we now provide a Safe Harbor for vulnerability researchers looking into our products and guarantee that there will be no legal actions against them. You can find more about Disclose.io in our blogpost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update: April 2, 2019<\/h3>\n

Our Global Transparency Initiative is making good progress: Today we announce the opening of a second Transparency Center. It will be located in Madrid, Spain, and will serve the purpose of providing more information regarding how Kaspersky Lab\u2019s products and technologies work. In addition to that, the new Center will also serve as a briefing center where visitors can learn about our product portfolio, engineering, and data processing practices. We expect the Center\u2019s first visitors this June. Plans to open Transparency Centers in Asia and North America in 2020 are ongoing.<\/p>\n

Relocation of our data processing infrastructure is also on track. We have already relocated the receiving infrastructure to Switzerland and plan to finish relocating the storage part by the end of Q2. We expect to finalize full relocation of data processing for European customers by the end of this year.<\/p>\n

In addition to that, we have published the results of a voluntary third-party legal assessment of Russian legislative acts and how they apply to Kaspersky Lab. The assessment was conducted by Dr. Kaj Hober, professor of International Investment and Trade Law at Uppsala University in Sweden and an expert on Russian law system. The key findings are the following:<\/p>\n