{"id":36177,"date":"2019-08-19T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T03:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=36177"},"modified":"2019-08-19T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T03:13:25","slug":"kaspersky-to-open-first-transparency-center-in-apac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/08\/19\/kaspersky-to-open-first-transparency-center-in-apac\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky to open first Transparency Center in APAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In line with its drive towards building trust in the cybersecurity industry, Kaspersky announced last August 15, the opening of its first Transparency Center in Asia Pacific, in partnership with CyberSecurity Malaysia \u2013 Malaysia\u2019s national cybersecurity specialist agency. The company\u2019s third code review facility will be located in Cyberjaya, alongside key cyber-related government agencies and companies in Malaysia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like its counterparts in Zurich and Madrid, the Transparency Center in Malaysia will serve as a trusted facility for the company\u2019s partners and government stakeholders to come and check the source code of Kaspersky\u2019s solutions. The new center will also function as a briefing center where guests will be able to learn more about Kaspersky\u2019s engineering and data processing practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government regulators and enterprise clients of Kaspersky can request to review the company\u2019s solutions and services including threat analysis, secure review, and the application security testing process. They can also review the source code of Kaspersky\u2019s flagship consumer and enterprise solutions \u2013 Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS); Kaspersky Endpoint Security (KES), and Kaspersky Security Center (KSC), which is a console for the company\u2019s business products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As well as these, stakeholders can also review all versions of Kaspersky\u2019s builds and AV-database updates as well the information the company processes such as data feeds from Kaspersky products that are sent to the cloud-based&nbsp;Kaspersky Security Network (KSN). Access to the Transparency Center is available upon request. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new center is being opened as part of the company\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/about\/transparency\">Global Transparency Initiative<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a brainchild of Kaspersky which aims to address the growing demand from partners and government stakeholders for more information on how its products and technologies work. The center will open for its first visitors early next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the company\u2019s announcement in October 2017, Kaspersky\u2019s Global Transparency Initiative has been demonstrating good progress. In particular, the company:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Started relocating customer data storage and processing infrastructure for European users from Russia to Zurich, Switzerland, to be completed by the end of 2019.<\/li><li>Opened two Transparency Centers in Europe \u2013 in Zurich (November 2018) and Madrid (June 2019). The Spanish Center also serves as a briefing center for key company stakeholders.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Successfully completed the Service Organization Control for Service Organizations (SOC 2) Type 1 audit. The final report, issued by one of the Big Four accounting firms, confirms that the development and release of Kaspersky\u2019s threat detection rules databases (AV databases) are protected from unauthorized changes by strong security controls. To learn more and to request the Kaspersky SOC 2 Type 1 Report, please visit the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/about\/compliance-soc2\">website<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Has been developing its&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hackerone.com\/kaspersky\">Bug Bounty program<\/a>. Since the announcement of the program\u2019s extension, the company resolved 66 bugs reported by security researchers and awarded almost $45,000 in bounty rewards. The company also supports the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/disclose.io\/\">Disclose.io<\/a>&nbsp;framework which provides Safe Harbor for vulnerability researchers concerned about potential negative legal consequences of their discoveries.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The company\u2019s third code review facility will be located in Cyberjaya, alongside key cyber-related government agencies and companies in Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[101,54],"class_list":["post-36177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-kaspersky","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}