As a pioneer in the industry, Kaspersky published its ethical principles for Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure (RVD), advocating for greater transparency and efficiency in vulnerability handling and mitigating harm and risks to users. Following the principles ensures that as an industry, we act in a transparent, responsible, and consistent manner to build a safer information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem.For this approach to work across the entire IT industry, other vendors — and users, independent researchers, regulators, and other interested parties — must be similarly motivated. Therefore, Kaspersky decided to publish its principles for the responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities found in other companies' software.