Government Has Completed Phase Two of Kaspersky Ban

Nextgov: The federal government has completed the first two phases of a three-part plan to scrub itself of a Russian anti-virus that intelligence officials say could be a conduit for Kremlin hacking, a Homeland Security Department official told Nextgov Tuesday.

That means agencies have scanned all of their networks for the Kaspersky Lab anti-virus and drawn up plans for how to turn off and replace the anti-virus if it was found.

About six small agencies missed an October deadline for phase one of the removal—scanning their systems for Kaspersky—because they didn’t have the resources to do the scanning themselves, Assistant Secretary Jeanette Manfra told lawmakers earlier this month.

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