Yury Maksimov

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Biography

• Yury Maksimov is the largest shareholder and cofounder of Positive Group, a Russian cybersecurity company.
• Maksimov was trained as a physicist and initially worked for Russian noise measuring equipment developer Octava.
• His older brother Dmitri worked at Russian bank SBS-Agro as a network security specialist and later wrote the XSpider program, which he posted on the Internet for free downloading.
• As XSpider's popularity grew, in 2002, Dmitri and their friend Evgeny Kireev started Positive Technologies to further develop the program. Yury joined two years later.
• In April 2021 the U.S. imposed sanctions against Positive along with five other Russian technology companies that provide cyber security services to the Russian government.
• In December 2021 Positive Technologies went public in Moscow and was renamed to Positive Group.

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