In a statement from Kaspersky, the company thanked Dicker Data for its hard work and dedication, and said its business operations remained stable.Įugene Kaspersky has always denied his company has any links to the Russian government or any backdoors to enable Russian cyber espionage. Even if we weren’t, sometimes you just need to do things.” Vlad is Ukrainian, and we’re much more closely affected by that. “It’s hard on the Russian guys we dealt with. “The Western guys have a responsibility to act,” he said.

Speaking to The Australian Financial Review, Dicker Data CEO David Dicker said the company had a duty to make the decision. Mr Kaspersky remains the CEO, and while the company is now a multinational, it maintains a large workforce in Russia.ĭavid Dicker: “The Western guys have a responsibility to act.”ĭicker Data made the decision more than two weeks ago to sever ties with Kaspersky – having acted as a local distributor since May 2019 – in no small part motivated by the Ukrainian heritage of its chief operating officer, Vladimir Mitnovetski.

One of the world’s largest privately owned cybersecurity companies, Kaspersky was founded in Moscow in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, Natalya Kaspersky, and Alexey De-Monderik.

Multibillion-dollar ASX-listed technology company Dicker Data has pulled the pin on its distribution contract with Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky over the invasion of Ukraine.

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