Kaspersky’s Antivirus Products the NSA and U.S National Security — An Analysis
It has recently became evident that the U.S is further strengthening it’s position on the cyber warfare front by successfully tackling internal and external utilization of foreign products within it’s networks further banning the use of one of the World’s most popular antivirus solutions Kaspersky Antivirus on its networks in an attempt to ensure that proprietary and classified information remains properly protected and to ensure that the data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands by utilizing foreign antivirus solutions on proprietary and classified networks further “phoning back” potentially compromising proprietary and classified networks including data.
With Kaspersky’s cloud-based proprietary sand-boxing and data-aggregation platform it is becoming increasingly easier for proprietary and classified data to fall victim into the wrong hands potentially compromising OPSEC (Operational Security) including related intellectual property leaks leading to the exposure of proprietary and classified information. Despite the fact that users are given the option to opt-out it should become clearly evident that modern antivirus software cannot really prevent the usability and actual applicability offered by network-based IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) including the active use of a properly secured and hardened end-point…
