Alex2
Given the recent events in Ukraine and the cyber-attacks from Russia, a question arises about eventual links between WatchGuard and Kaspersky. Indeed, Kaspersky Labs mentions WatchGuard as a partner [1]. It states that WatchGuard uses Kaspersky Anti-Virus SDK.
So, in my organization, we have some concerns about the fact that some WG products may use components whose supply is potentially under Russian control, therefore causing a high risk of supply chain attack.
The questions are then :
* How can we get sure no Kaspersky component is still in use on WG products ?
* Can WG guarantee this and provide evidences or ways to check for this ?
If we cannot get sufficient guarantee that it does not use any library originating from Kaspersky, we may consider withdraw all our WatchGuard products...
References
[1] https://www.kaspersky.com/partners/technology
Comments
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Excellent ! Thank you so much.
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Thank you for your reply ! Yes, I already saw the second link you mentioned. And in my opinion, we only talk about a possible integration between both products, not a WatchGuard product depending on a Kaspersky library. But WatchGuard shall understand that, in the current context, many intelligence services may…