Subj : Australia Bans Kaspersky Software Over National Security and Espionages
To   : TheCivvie
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 09:00:24

-=> TheCivvie wrote to All <=-

 Th>  Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of
 Th> security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national
 Th> security concerns. "After considering threat and risk analysis, I have
 Th> determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web
 Th> services by Australian Government entities poses an unacceptable
 Th> security risk to Australian Government, networks and data,

 I was just thinking back to when we had a more robust desktop security
 platform - Avast, Kapersky, and others made a more resilient desktop
 security landscape. Most home desktops are just running Defender.

 I suppose corporate networks still have desktop AV, except now it's in
 EDR packages like Crowdstrike and Trend Micro.
 
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