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Australia bans government use of Kaspersky software due to ‘unacceptable security risk’
The Australian government followed the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom in taking action against the Russian cybersecurity giant
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs last week issued a directive that prohibits government agencies from installing Kaspersky products or web services on official systems and devices, citing national security risks. “After considering threat and risk analysis, I have determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab products and web services… poses an unacceptable security risk to the government networks and data, arising from threats of foreign interference, espionage and sabotage,” Australia’s secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, Stephanie Foster, said in the directive. The Russian software maker said the following month that it would leave the country for good, saying its U.S. business was “no longer viable.”
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