‘KASPERSKY LAB, ARMENIA GOVT INK IT PARTNERSHIP DEAL’

Digital Media Asia
September 21, 2009 Monday

DMASIA-21 September 2009-‘Kaspersky Lab, Armenia govt ink IT
partnership deal’ Ltd. All rights reserved.

Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky Lab has signed a MoU with the
Ministry of Economic Affairs of Armenia. Under the project dubbed
Secure Armenia, Kaspersky Lab and the Armenian government will
cooperate in the area of IT security. The agreement aims to facilitate
a bipartite effort regarding the arrangement of infrastructure services
for the antivirus protection of information systems owned by the
Armenian state authorities and educational institutions. The two
parties will jointly create temporary working groups to deal with
economic and technical collaboration issues and develop long-term
cooperation programs for information protection. Addtionally,
Kaspersky Lab will actively participate in the organization of
educational programs in Armenia. These programs will target secondary,
vocational and higher educational institutions in Armenia, as well
as professional development centres and will also cover IT training
of teachers and state employees.