The move to strip out Kaspersky products from government systems is likely to have a chilling effect on government contractors and consumers. Procurement choices have implications far beyond lost contracts. While Congress certainly has a responsibility to maintain the security of government systems, such a blanket ban contributes to a growing protectionist trend in government technology procurement and threatens innovation. Meanwhile, the Senate is considering a draft bill of the 2018 National Defense Acquisition Authorization (known as the NDAA, it specifies the size of and uses for the fiscal year 2018 US Defense Department budget) that would bar the use of Kaspersky products in the military. Philip Chertoff ( philip_chertoff ) is a research fellow in the cybersecurity program at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute, an EU/NATO policy think tank in Bratislava, Slovakia.Īlready, the General Services Administration (GSA) has ordered the removal of Kaspersky software platforms from its catalogues of approved vendors.
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