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Moscow-headquartered security company Kaspersky Lab has launched two new products, Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky AntiVirus 2012 and said that it wants to grow its Indian operations by over 66 per cent in 2011.
“Right now, we are selling around 1.2 lakh boxes per month and we want to raise this to around 2 lakh boxes,” said Mr Jagannath Patnaik, Director – Channel Sales, Kaspersky Lab India.
Mr Patnaik said that these days, around 70,000 new malwares are detected everyday by Kaspersky Lab's R&D team on a daily basis. “In a country like India, which is relying more and more on the Internet for transactions such as Internet ticketing, this poses special dangers,” he said.
He said Kaspersky adopts a hybrid protection for protecting user systems. “The virus definitions reside on your hard disk, but our malware detection system is based on the cloud,” he said.
The company has over 30 crore users worldwide and India has around 30 lakh registered users, said Mr Patnaik. The company, which had around 700 employees a couple of years ago, now has over 2,000 employees, of which over 50 per cent are in the R&D field based out of Kaspersky's R&D centres in Moscow and Pittsburgh. The Indian headquarters of Kaspersky Lab is located in Hyderabad.
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