OREANDA-NEWS. April 29, 2015. Forbes, by Eugene Kaspersky

In mid-April of this year INTERPOL launched its brand new cyber-division in Singapore – the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) – which I believe is a landmark achievement for the global state of cybersecurity. I’d been personally campaigning for something like this to happen for several years beforehand, so now, finally, what seemed once a distant dream has come true. And I’m very proud that my company has been a partner of INTERPOL and been supporting it in its ambitious goals for several years.

Why is it so important?

For the last two decades the IT security industry has been in a constant fight against cybercriminals. My company and our competitors have learned a great deal about their techniques, their objectives, their motivation. We’ve often had to learn to predict new threats and develop preventive measures to protect our customers even before the criminals launch their attacks. But as private companies, we’re fundamentally limited in how we can deal with these threats. We can provide protection to our customers, research malware, carry out forensic studies of our customers’ computers, investigate sophisticated attacks, and track criminal activities on the Internet with various sensors and honeypots. But we can’t physically stop criminals launching a new attack after we’ve thwarted their previous one. We need law enforcement agencies to catch them, and courts to put them behind bars.