Kaspersky
has been acknowledged as a Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator 2020 in the
Software category, in line with top IT industry leaders for the second
consecutive year. The annual report from Clarivate Analytics, a global leader
in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of
innovation, identifies the world's most innovative organizations which
successfully develop valuable patented inventions that also have strong commercialization
potential based on market reach and impact on other downstream inventions.
Kaspersky
has been included in the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator 2020, together
with the other
well-established companies including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft,
Oracle, Symantec and Tencent. Driven by its mission of ‘building a safer
world,' Kaspersky has contributed significantly to the cybersecurity industry
by constantly developing and patenting new IT security technologies. Over the
years, the company has become a technological leader with an advanced and
comprehensive portfolio of security solutions and services working on state of
the art technologies that are unique for the market and protect home users and
large corporations, governments, industry and infrastructure.
As of 2019, Kaspersky has a portfolio of nearly 900 patents
granted in Russia, USA, Europe, China and Japan. Among the most notable recent
inventions are developments in the field of endpoint detection and response
(EDR) and security information and event management (SIEM) systems, the use of
machine learning technologies and Sandbox
technology (a patent for a system and method of analysis of files for
maliciousness in a virtual machine). These and many other patented technologies
are implemented in Kaspersky solutions such as Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack
(KATA), Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (KEDR), Kaspersky Industrial
Cybersecurity for Nodes and other products.
As a result of driving constant innovation and implementing
new technologies and solutions, Kaspersky remains one step ahead of its
competitors and the company's solutions continue to be the most tested, and
most awarded, in independent tests and
reviews.
"Kaspersky devotes ample attention to patenting as part
of its innovative development strategy and has steadily built a solid portfolio
of protection for its innovations, with the company being honored as one of the
‘Top 100 Global Innovators' for the second year in a row," said Nadezhda
Kashchenko, deputy chief legal officer, chief intellectual property and
antitrust officer at Kaspersky. "It was the winning combination of
Kaspersky's mission, strategy and talented team that paved the way to achieving
such a high rating. We will continue to support our researchers in developing
their ideas to widen the scope for patented invention, and therefore bringing
more innovation and presenting the best in class technologies and solutions.
I'm sure these will then become leaders in various ratings."
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of the company, said: "It's a great
honor to be named a Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator for the second year
in a row, along with the other industry leaders. I want to thank our
best-in-class researchers for their constant innovations and our legal team
that works hard to protect our technologies and obtain patent rights across multiple
regions. And as our business focus moves from ‘cybersecurity' towards the
broader concept of ‘cyber-immunity', we'll keep on leading in innovation and
the development of higher industry standards for the future."
"The relentless pace of global ideation means competition
among innovators is intensifying, and staying at the top is getting harder,"
said Jeff Roy, president, IP Group, Clarivate Analytics. "We congratulate
the Top 100 Global Innovators for building a culture of generating new ideas,
consistently creating new value from ingenuity, and delivering excellence in
research and intellectual property creation."
Now in its
ninth year, Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators utilizes editorially
enhanced, authoritative and accurate patent data from Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and Derwent Patent Citations Index
(DPCI) to track
innovation based on four indicators:
- Volume: The organization must
have had at least 100 granted inventions (and more than 500 filed in
total) in the past five years.
- Influence: The level of downstream
impact by being highly cited externally by other organizations, and
measured via the Derwent Patent Citations Index
over the last five years, excluding citations from themselves.
- Success: A high ratio of success
in obtaining patent grants.
- Globalization: The level of investment
of a patent applicant in their invention, as tracked via the process of
pursuing protection in all four of the key market patent offices of China,
Europe, Japan, and the United States.
The Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators 2020
report and full list of Top 100 organizations can be found
here.