- Business
- PJSC Positive Group (POSI.ME), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Moscow, Russia, develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity software products and services focused on result-driven protection against cyberattacks for corporate IT infrastructure, industrial systems, web applications, and cloud environments; key offerings include meta-products such as MaxPatrol O2 for automated attack detection and prevention with minimal human involvement, MaxPatrol VM for vulnerability management, MaxPatrol SIEM for security event monitoring (ranked in the global top 20 by IDC), PT XDR for extended detection and response, PT Network Attack Discovery for network traffic analysis, PT Sandbox for malware protection, PT Application Firewall for web application security (named a Gartner Visionary), PT Application Inspector for vulnerability scanning, PT MultiScanner for virus threats, PT ISIM for industrial control systems, MaxPatrol 8 for infrastructure assessment, XSpider and PT BlackBox scanners; the company also provides expert services through its PT Expert Security Center including continuous security analysis (Pentest 360, APT emulation, red team exercises), incident detection/response/investigation, hardware vulnerability research, and consulting for SOC deployment. Positive Group operates primarily in Russia and neighboring countries with offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Samara, Tomsk, and Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), serving approximately 4,000 organizations worldwide across industries like finance, energy, government, and manufacturing; it maintains a market share of 14.1% in Russia's cybersecurity market as of 2023, with sales growing faster than the sector's 23.6% CAGR. In recent developments, the company launched the commercial version of its next-generation firewall PT NGFW and meta-product MaxPatrol Carbon, achieved market capitalization exceeding 200 billion rubles on the Moscow Exchange (where shares trade exclusively under POSI since its pioneering 2021 direct listing and subsequent upgrades to the highest quotation list and key indices including IMOEX and RTS), reported 2023 revenue reflecting a 14.1% market share gain, and expanded international partnerships in regions like Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE while enhancing its research output with over 80 zero-day vulnerabilities discovered annually by its leading security research center.