USA sätter stopp för mjukvara från Kaspersky
USA förbjuder statliga myndigheter att använda sig av mjukvara från det ryska multinationella datasäkerhetsföretaget Kaspersky Lab, skriver Washington Post.
Orsaken är oro över företagets eventuella kopplingar till statskontrollerat ryskt cyberspionage. Enligt ett uttalande från USA:s departement för inrikes säkerhet kan Ryssland, i samarbete med Kaspersky eller utan bolagets vetskap, hota USA:s säkerhet.
En anonym källa uppger för tidningen att myndigheterna har fått en begränsad tid på sig att göra sig av med säkerhetsprogram från Kaspersky Lab.
Kaspersky förnekar i ett uttalande till Washington Post att man har några band till Kreml.
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Kaspersky Lab
Wikipedia (en)
Kaspersky Lab (/kæˈspɜːrski/ ; Russian: Лаборатория Касперского, Laboratoriya Kasperskogo) is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia and operated by a holding company in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1997 by Eugene Kaspersky, who is currently the CEO. Kaspersky Lab develops and sells antivirus, internet security, password management, endpoint security, and other cybersecurity products and services.
Kaspersky expanded internationally from 2005–2010 and grew to more than $700 million in annual revenues by 2014. As of 2016, the software has about 400 million users and has the largest market-share of cybersecurity software vendors in Europe.
Kaspersky Lab ranks fourth in the global ranking of antivirus vendors by revenue. It was the first Russian company to be included into the rating of the world’s leading software companies, called the Software Top 100 (79th on the list, as of 6/29/2012). Kaspersky Lab is ranked 4th in Endpoint Security segment according to IDC data for 2010. According to Gartner, Kaspersky Lab is currently the third largest vendor of consumer IT security software worldwide and the fifth largest vendor of Enterprise Endpoint Protection. Kaspersky Lab has been named a "Leader" in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. Despite some in the US worrying about the possibility of meddling by Russian intelligence, Kaspersky services are also used by such federal US agencies as the Bureau of Prisons, the Consumer Protection Safety Commission and some segments of the Defense Department.
The Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has discovered sophisticated espionage platforms linked to US intelligence, such as Equation Group and the Stuxnet worm. Various covert government-sponsored cyber-espionage efforts were uncovered through their research. Kaspersky also publishes the annual Global IT Security Risks Survey. As of 2014, Kaspersky's research hubs analyze more than 350,000 malware samples per day.
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