Security News > 2022 > March > German government advises against using Kaspersky antivirus
Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, is warning companies against using Kaspersky antivirus products due to threats made by Russia against the EU, NATO, and Germany.
Kaspersky is a Moscow-based cybersecurity and antivirus provider founded in 1997, that has a long history of success, but also controversy over the company's possible relationship with the Russian government.
Today, the BSI is warning German companies to replace Kaspersky AV and any other products from the firm with alternative software from non-Russian vendors.
Beyond our cyberthreat-related data processing facilities in Switzerland, statistics provided by users to Kaspersky can be processed on the Kaspersky Security Network's services located in various countries around the world, including Canada and Germany.
Review the source code of our leading solutions including Kaspersky Internet Security, our flagship consumer product; Kaspersky Endpoint Security, our flagship enterprise product; and Kaspersky Security Center, a control console for our enterprise products.
Review all versions of our builds and AV-database updates, as well as the types of information which Kaspersky products send to our cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network.