The spokeswoman also said Kaspersky “does not have any ties to the Russian government.”Ĭritics pointed out Kaspersky counts the Russian government as one of its clients, attacked company CEO Eugene Kaspersky for his statement on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and said his Russian employees could become targets of government coercion. Kaspersky doubled down on its line about politics after the FCC’s announcement last week, saying the government action was “a response to the geopolitical climate rather than a comprehensive evaluation of the integrity of Kaspersky’s products and services.”Ī Kaspersky spokeswoman told American Banker the company’s technologies “are trusted by hundreds of global technology and OEM partners” and that it works together with law enforcement agencies including Interpol and Europol. “The security and integrity of our data services and engineering practices have been confirmed by independent third-party assessments: through the SOC 2 Audit conducted by a ‘Big Four’ auditor, and through the ISO27001 certification and recent re-certification by TÜV Austria,” a company statement reads.
Kaspersky responded to the German statement by saying it was “not based on a technical assessment of Kaspersky products” but rather “made on political grounds.” The company said it relocated its cyberthreat-related data processing infrastructure to Switzerland in 2018 and that it had other processing operations in Canada, Germany and elsewhere.
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The Italian Data Protection Authority said on March 18 it had begun a “fact-finding exercise” regarding Kaspersky products in response to alerts from “several IT security agencies both in Italy and in Europe regarding use of the software to wage cyber-attacks against Italian users.” “Today’s action is the latest in the FCC’s ongoing efforts, as part of the greater whole-of-government approach, to strengthen America’s communications networks against national security threats, including examining the foreign ownership of telecommunications companies providing service in the United States and revoking the authorization to operate where necessary,” said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.īefore the FCC declared that Kaspersky products pose a national security threat, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security said on March 15 that any Russian IT manufacturer “can conduct offensive operations itself, be forced to attack target systems against its will, be spied on without its knowledge as a victim of a cyber operation or be misused as a tool for attacks against its own customers.”
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