On Friday, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a new guidance for how the country’s various ministries should closely manage their use of antivirus software supplied by a foreign nation, such as Russia’s Kaspersky Lab.
In a letter to to heads of government ministries, NCSC CEO, Ciaran Martin said that organizations “need to be vigilant to the risk that an [antivirus] product under the control of a hostile actor could extract sensitive data from that network, or indeed cause damage to the network itself.” He went on to specifically call out Russia, noting that the country is a “highly capable cyber threat actor which uses cyber as a tool of statecraft,” and that in instances where government agencies have information...
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/2/16728136/national-cybersecurity-centre-guidance-government-agencies-russian-antivirus-software-kaspersky-lab
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-uks-cybersecurity-agency-issued-new.html
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