Kaspersky isn’t just winning—it’s hoarding cybersecurity trophies like a tech world Gollum.
At the SE Labs Security Awards 2025 held in London, the cybersecurity heavyweight swept three of the top awards in a feat that can only be described as “utter domination.” This year’s awards recognized the most effective and resilient digital defense tools, and Kaspersky walked away with wins in the Enterprise, Small Business, and Consumer Endpoint categories. All for Windows, of course—because Mac malware is still mostly folklore.
The SE Labs Awards, now in their seventh year, evaluate security solutions through a hybrid of continuous public tests, private assessments, and direct client feedback—no popularity contests here. It’s basically the Oscars of antivirus software, minus the red carpet but with more packet sniffing.
“Kaspersky’s outstanding performance across all segments reflects our team’s deep commitment to excellence in protection, innovation and reliability,” said Alexander Liskin, Head of Threat Research at Kaspersky. “We are honored to receive the SE Labs awards as they testify the hard work we put in every day to keep our users – from individual consumers to large enterprises – safe from cyber threats.”
If you’ve been tracking Kaspersky’s stats like a fantasy football fan checks player injuries, you’ll notice the trend: top marks year after year. In SE Labs’ independent “Total Accuracy Ratings,” Kaspersky scored No. 1 in Q1 2025 across all segments—enterprise, small business, and consumer. The company also topped every quarterly test in 2024, and most of them in 2023 and 2022. In cybersecurity terms, that’s basically a hat trick followed by three more.
“Great security doesn’t just happen – it’s built, tested and proven,” said Simon Edwards, Founder and CEO of SE Labs. “Behind every high performing security product is a team committed to excellence. These awards mark Kaspersky’s excellent performance in our tests as well as feedback from customers in the real world.”
Kaspersky’s presence across multiple sectors—from the average user who just wants to check email without summoning ransomware, to corporations protecting terabytes of sensitive data—has cemented its reputation as the company you call when you really don’t want to end up in a data breach headline.
And while other cybersecurity firms may tout flashy AI features or rebrand their dashboards every six months, Kaspersky is focusing on the one thing that still actually matters: stopping threats. Radical concept, right?
The awards were handed out during SE Labs’ annual vendor workshop on July 2 in London. The event gathered top-tier cybersecurity firms and experts to share war stories, compare scars from zero-day exploits, and argue over whose firewall ruleset is more impenetrable.
If anything, the ceremony reaffirmed a reality many in the industry already knew—Kaspersky isn’t just in the game, it’s writing the rulebook.
While skepticism around cybersecurity solutions is as old as dial-up, these awards send a strong signal: when it comes to defending Windows endpoints, Kaspersky isn’t messing around. Or maybe they are—but only with hackers.
For a company often caught between geopolitical narratives and shifting tech ecosystems, this win shows that sheer technical excellence still matters. And when it comes to earning trust, nothing speaks louder than a consistent, public track record of not letting bad guys in.