Russia also came to the company’s defense, with a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin criticizing the ban.
ban was “part of a geopolitical game” and that “there is no proof provided of any improper ties to the Russian government.”
Kaspersky said it is not subject to the Russian laws cited in the directive and said information the company receives is protected in accordance with legal requirements and stringent industry standards, including encryption.Ĭompany spokesman Anton Shingarov said that the U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies and several congressional committees are investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Amazon and Staples are still offering it. “It is all about risk mitigation in cybersecurity, and this is an easy risk mitigation to make,” he said.īest Buy was the first big retailer this month to announce it would stop selling the software. As a result, he expects most companies to find an alternative to Kaspersky. “I don’t think this is political posturing here, but a sign that there is some real risk,” Fick said. The government ban should alarm any company that has been relying on Kaspersky’s software to protect its business, said Nate Fick, chief executive of computer security specialist Endgame. “There are plenty of alternatives out there.” “Voluntarily introducing this kind of Russian software in a geopolitical landscape where the U.S.-Russia relationship is not good at all, I think, would be assuming too much risk,” he said. Michael Sulmeyer, director of a cybersecurity program at Harvard, noted that antivirus software has deep access to the user’s computer and network. Other experts, however, suggested that consumers should uninstall Kaspersky software to avoid any potential risks. Kaspersky products accounted for about 5.5% of anti-malware software products worldwide, according to research firm Statista. government computers is if Kaspersky, based in Moscow, is subject to “government-mandated malicious update,” Weaver wrote this summer.
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