Work at removal

The General Director of Kaspersky Laboratory Evgeny Kaspersky is ready to testify to the Committee of the US Congress. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the company.

"I accept the invitation to testify to the Committee on Science, Cosmos and Technologies of the House of US Representatives, and if I get an urgent visa, I will readily answer the accusations against my company and the products that we are developing," the statement of Kaspersky said.

The day before the committee said that the hearings were scheduled for September 27. "The Committee on Science, Cosmos and Technologies will hold hearings on Kaspersky products and the risks that they represent for American systems," the committee said on Twitter.

Invitations to hearings were sent to Kaspersky and four American experts in the field of cybersecurity from government organizations and private companies, the committee said .

On Wednesday, acting The US Minister of Internal Security, Elaine Duke, issued an order obliging the federal structures of the executive branch in 90-day period to completely abandon the use of the products of the Kaspersky Laboratory and its subsidiaries. Officials were given 30 days to identify all computers with Kaspersky products, and another 60 to find a replacement and remove them.

Kaspersky products are noted in the message, receive deep access to files on computers, and this can be used by attackers to compromise information systems. “The Ministry is concerned about the connections between individual managers of the Kaspersky Laboratory and intelligence or other government structures of Russia, as well as Russian law, which allows intelligence to request or demand from Kaspersky Assistance in the interception of data passing through Russian networks,” the publication says.

On June 27, FBI agents in several cities of the United States visited employees of American offices of Kaspersky Laboratory and interviewed them. The special service was interested in the degree of accountability of the American divisions of the company of Moscow.

On June 29, it became known that the US Senate Committee approved a bill prohibiting the use of Kaspersky programs in the American army. The author of the bill - the Senator -Democrat from New Hampshire Gene Shahin - noted that the Kaspersky Laboratory may be influenced by the Russian authorities. "

On July 3, Kaspersky stated that he was ready to provide the US authorities with the source code of the company's programs, as well as give evidence in Congress in order to cleanse themselves of suspicion of cooperation with the Russian authorities.

Meanwhile, on July 11, Bloomberg reported that the Kaspersky Laboratory in the late 2000s developed for the Russian special services of protection technology from DDOS attacks, and also introduced “active countermeasures” against hackers among providers. The Russian company objected that her management "did not and did not have inappropriate connections with any government."

The next day, July 12, the US presidential administration excluded the Kaspersky laboratory from the list of suppliers, whose products were approved for use by government agencies. As noted, such a decision is designed to "ensure the integrity and security of government systems and networks of the United States." However, then the restrictions applied only to purchases made through the administration of the general services of the White House.