Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, warns companies not to use products Kaspersky protection.
Kaspersky is a company security based in Moscow, founded in 1997. At record she has a lot of success, but also controversies about the possible relationship of the company with the Russian government.
Kaspersky believes that because it offers protection services to Russian state infrastructure, it can not remain completely neutral.
Today, BSI asked German companies to replace Kaspersky AV and any other company products with alternative software from non-Russian suppliers.
As the BSI statement explains, antivirus software typically has elevated privileges on Windows systems, maintaining a permanent, encrypted and unverifiable connection with the vendor's servers for continuous updates.
So since real-time protection from almost all security companies can upload suspicious files to remote servers for further analysis, there is concern that Russian developers could use their software to obtain sensitive files.
Although Kaspersky is likely to be trusted, it should comply with Russian law, and allow government agents to access databases of private companies.
The BSI therefore states that Kaspersky could be forced to assist the Russian intelligence services in conducting cyberattacks or espionage.
