Veniamin Levtsov graduated from Moscow State University in Computer science (1996) and Law (2000). He also has a number of professional qualifications, including those in project management (PMP ® since 2008).

Veniamin has been working at Kaspersky for more than 14 years in total Veniamin’s first spell at Kaspersky was in 2004 when he was a Product Director: he coordinated releases of antivirus products and was involved in a wide range of product marketing and sales support activities across the international channel. Since 2013 he was the Vice President, Corporate Business with a priority focus on large enterprise organizations and national projects.

Before rejoining the company, Veniamin was a Business development director with the leading Russian IT security integrator LETA as well as Country Manager of Russia for Trend Micro (EMEA) Ltd.

Veniamin’s work has been closely related to information security since 2003 when he has joined the Russian branch of Credit Lyonnais bank, where he was responsible for developing and supporting the security of remote banking services.

During his work, he took part in the preparation and promotion of a number of information security solutions: personal data protection systems, cloud and hybrid environments, protection systems against targeted attacks, DLP, EDR, SIEM, Threat Intelligence solutions, building SOC, as well as various expert services.

Today he manages the Global Center of Corporate Business Expertise in Kaspersky, provides expert support to regional teams of Kaspersky and manages complicated complex projects, including national initiatives around cyber sovereignty.

Veniamin along with 2 co-authors delivers the special learning course as a part of official curriculum of Moscow State University around Cyber Threats and Security Solutions.