The city of Dubai experienced unprecedented flooding on April 16, during a historic rainstorm. Among the hundreds of people from around the world trying to land in the city was Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of the cybersecurity company Kaspersky. His flight from Moscow was not without incident: “There was turbulence the entire time and I had to land in Abu Dhabi.” After waiting a couple of hours on the plane, he was able to leave the airport and get a car to take him to Dubai.
The Russian cybersecurity expert compares the storms in Dubai with the challenges his company faces in the United States. In recent years, the company has come under scrutiny due to allegations about its relationship with the Russian government. In 2017, for example, the United States vetoed the use of software from Kaspersky to government agencies for fear of Russian espionage. Now it is preparing to go further and issue an order that would prevent American companies and citizens from using its software due to national security concerns, according to CNN.
“There are things in the world that we cannot change. We simply have to adapt to the new reality, as happens with storms,” says Kaspersky, in an interview with EL PAÍS, in relation to these allegations. The expert boasts that his company has technologies “that recognize malware (malicious software) better than others: we do it in real time and send what we capture on
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