Foreign Antivirus Software Banned In RussiaSource: https://www.heise.de/news/Putin-Mehr-Cyberattacken-gegen-Russland-beklagt-7102261.html
Excerpt from German article translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)Due to a persistent threat situation, Putin ordered to implement a new security strategy in the IT sector by 2025. He said that in order to digitize the economy, the risks associated with the use of foreign software and technology must be reduced to a minimum. The use of foreign antivirus programs would be banned from 2025, the Russian president said.
The latter can be understood as a reaction to the banning of Kaspersky's Russian antivirus software in Western countries. In Germany, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) had warned against Kaspersky antivirus software because there was no longer any confidence in its reliability in light of the war against Ukraine. German companies should replace the software with alternative products, the BSI advised.
Kaspersky criticized the warning as politically motivated and not based on technical concerns. A legal appeal filed by Kaspersky against the warning recently finally failed in court. In the USA, the FCC classified Kaspersky Antivirus as a risk to national security.
