Kaspersky Puts $2.23m Into Staff Training in Latest Sustainability Report
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky invested $2.23 million in employee training during 2024-2025, according to its latest Sustainability Report, which also details progress on environmental impact and corporate transparency.
The report covers three of five pillars in Kaspersky’s ESG strategy: growing and supporting its workforce, cutting its environmental footprint, and giving partners and stakeholders more visibility into how its products are built and reviewed.
Kaspersky spent $760,000 directly on charitable initiatives over the period and expanded its Global Transparency Initiative to 13 centres worldwide.
“Sustainability isn’t only about the threats we neutralise, it’s about the kind of company we choose to be,” said Maria Losyukova, Kaspersky’s Head of ESG & Sustainability.
Kaspersky’s global headcount grew to about 5,700 employees, up 11.3 percent in 2025 from the previous year. Average salaries rose 7 percent globally, while staff turnover fell from 15 percent to 10 percent. Eighteen percent of employees have now been with the company for a decade or more.
Hiring grew fastest in Asia-Pacific, up 60 percent from 2023, with Latin America, the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa also adding staff. Women make up 25 percent of Kaspersky’s workforce and hold 26 percent of leadership roles, with the company backing programmes including Empower Women and a newly launched Future You in Tech initiative targeting young girls.
The firm gave out 13,500 cybersecurity licences to NGOs, nearly 2.7 times more than the prior period, and its Kaspersky Academy Alliance now covers about 200 universities in 42 countries after roughly 50 new members joined over the two years.
Lower environmental footprint
Kaspersky put about $43,000 into environmental initiatives, recycled 420kg of electronic equipment and responsibly disposed of or donated more than three tonnes of items, with zero environmental compliance fines recorded.
The company said its malware detection also carries an indirect environmental benefit, estimating that blocking cryptomining malware prevents unauthorised energy use equal to roughly 3,000 tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions a year.
On transparency, new centres opened in Istanbul, Bogotá and Seoul, taking Kaspersky’s global total to 13. The company has put more than $9.4 million into the initiative since launch, with 67 partner visits and seven product reviews completed, giving trusted partners access to review its source code, software updates and threat detection rules.
Kaspersky also completed two independent audits – SOC 2 and ISO 27001 – during the period and paid out more than $15,000 through its Bug Bounty programme for 18 validated vulnerability reports.
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