The United States has barred federal agencies from using computer security products made by the company Kaspersky Lab. Elaine Duke is the Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She announced the order Wednesday. Agencies will have 90 days to remove the computer software from their systems. In a statement, the department said the action was taken because of information security risks presented by the use of Kaspersky products on federal information systems. The statement added that U.S. officials were concerned about ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies. It said the U.S. identified a risk that the Russian government might be able to use Kaspersky products to gain access to federal information systems.
What does risk mean?
federal system
software program
expose to danger
security concern
How might the products be used?
for security
to gain access
as an official channel
to record meetings
Officials were concerned about ties with Russian intelligence.
Russian intelligence
covert operations
information risk
security officers