From this week, malicious and suspicious files shared by users of Kaspersky Lab products in Europe will start to be processed in data centers in Zurich, initiating the first part of a relocation commitment made by the company in late 2017 under its Global Transparency Initiative.
The move reflects Kaspersky Lab?s determination to assure the integrity and trustworthiness of its products and is accompanied by the opening of the company?s first Transparency Center, also in Zurich.
The relocation of data processing is part of a major infrastructure move designed to increase the resilience of the company?s IT infrastructure to risks of data breaches and supply-chain attacks, and to further prove the trustworthiness of its products, services and internal processes.
From November 13, threat-related data coming from European users will start to be processed in two data centers.
The data, which users have actively chosen to share with Kaspersky Lab, includes suspicious or previously unknown malicious files and corresponding meta-data that the company?s products send to Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) for automated malware analysis.
Files comprise only part of the data processed by Kaspersky Lab technologies. The file processing relocation is expected to be fully accomplished by the end of 2019.
The relocation of other types of data processed by Kaspersky Lab products, consisting of several kinds of anonymized threat and usage statistics, is planned to be conducted during later phases of the Global Transparency Initiative.
Kaspersky Lab also opened its first Transparency Center in Zurich, enabling authorized partners to access reviews of the company?s code, software updates and threat detection rules, along with other activities.
Through the Transparency Center, Kaspersky Lab will provide governments and partners with information on its products and their security, including essential and important technical documentation, for external evaluation in a secure environment.
These two major developments will be followed by the relocation of data processing for other regions and, in phase two, the move to Zurich of software assembly.
According to independent rankings, Switzerland is among the world?s top locations in terms of the number of secure Internet servers available, and it has an international reputation as an innovative center for data processing and high quality IT infrastructure.
Being in the heart of Europe and, at the same time, a non-EU member, it has established its own data privacy regulation that is guaranteed by the state?s constitution and federal laws. In addition, there are strict regulations on processing data requests received from authorities.
