From: FCW
Kaspersky axed from governmentwide contracts
By Adam Mazmanian
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Kaspersky has a fairly limited profile in the federal space as a contractor. Its products are in use or have been used at the Bureau of Prisons, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Comptroller of the Currency at Treasury, but overall spending on the company’s products by the federal government is far below $1 million, according to contracting data. The company’s products do not appear on GSA’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation vehicle, a set of tools and services from vendors vetted by the Department of Homeland Security to provide cybersecurity services to federal agencies.
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“I don’t always know what’s in the box,” one federal information security official told FCW. “The embedded technologies is what we have to figure out — is it or is it not a problem,” the official said.
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