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InfoWatch Group, a Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions, will be a general sponsor of the Business Information Security Summit St. Petersburg 2018 (BIS Summit) to be held on March 22, 2018, at the Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovskaya hotel in St. Petersburg and supported by the Government of St. Petersburg and the Information Security Education and Methodology Association of Russian Universities.

InfoWatch Group, a Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions, will take part in the sixth annual World Government Summit to be held in Dubai (UAE) on February 10-14, 2018. As part of the summit’s business agenda, Natalya Kaspersky, President of InfoWatch Group, will join the Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence round table moderated by His Excellency Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence.

InfoWatch Group, a Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions, and National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) have announced a master’s degree program ‘Internet of Things and Cyberphysical Systems’ to be delivered at HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE).

Attack Killer Protection, an InfoWatch Group subsidiary that develops end-to-end web security management systems, has become a member of the IT Cluster at Skolkovo Innovation Center. The Skolkovo expert board adopted a resolution recognizing Attack Killer technologies as a unique web security force against hacking, DoS and DDoS attacks, and theft of confidential and payment information.

In 2017, InfoWatch Group saw 20% more implementations and a doubled demand for upgrades of InfoWatch Traffic Monitor, its DLP system protecting businesses against data leaks and internal threats.

InfoWatch Group, a Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions, and Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University) have announced a new joint university-based training center opened as part of strategic cooperation between InfoWatch Group and the university in fostering highly qualified cybersecurity specialists for Russian enterprises.

InfoWatch Group, a Russian vendor of end-to-end enterprise cybersecurity solutions, will take part in INTERSEC, an international security and safety technology expo for the Middle East countries, to be held in Dubai (UAE) on January 21-23, 2018.

St. Petersburg and Kazan students became the first national champions in Enterprise Protection against Internal Cybersecurity Threats category as part of DigitalSkills 2017, Russia’s first IT industry championship that meets WorldSkills standards. The event held on December 11-15, 2017, at Innopolis University (Republic of Tatarstan) was organized by WorldSkills Russia and supported by the Tatarstan Government and the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media.

InfoWatch Analytical Center has released a report on data leaks from high-tech companies in 2016, according to which the world saw approximately 30% growth in the number of such leaks and more than an eightfold increase in the volume of compromised data. The high-tech companies accounted for almost 75% of all globally compromised data (2.3 billion records), 87% of which were personal data.