In addition, the National Security Council has reportedly been pressing for sanctions against Kaspersky in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since that run-in with the feds in 2017, it’s been seemingly non-stop negative news for Kaspersky, including the FCC’s watch-list pronouncement earlier this year. Department of Homeland Security banned Kaspersky products from all government departments in late 2017. The company, which has vehemently denied colluding with the Russian government, launched its first code-review center in Zurich, Switzerland in 2018, soon after the U.S. With Thursday’s announcement, Kaspersky now has a total of seven “code review centers” around the world, with previously opened centers in Switzerland, Spain, Malaysia and Brazil. The new Massachusetts center, which was previously located in New Brunswick, Canada, will now serve as a venue for the company’s North American Transparency Center, the company said. center will be located at Kaspersky’s North American headquarters in Woburn, Mass.
Kaspersky, which earlier this year was put on the Federal Communications Commission’s national security watchlist, announced Thursday that it is opening so-called “transparency centers” in Japan, Singapore and the United States as part of its ongoing Global Transparency Initiative (GTI).Īt the centers, qualified personnel can review the company’s coding, software updates, threat detection rules, and other engineering and data processing practices, the company said in a press release. The embattled cybersecurity vendor is opening three new “transparency centers” around the globe as the Moscow-based firm tries to win back the trust of partners and customers concerned about its possible ties to the Russian government.
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