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Congressional budget skirmishes won't halt cyber issues

Fifth Domain: Worries that the government may shut down Friday at midnight have dominated the airwaves, but everything around Washington hasn’t been mired in deadlock. Federal agencies’ cyberspace policies and posture have seen a lot of activity in the past week, and there will be ramifications regardless of whether Congress manages to avert a Jan. 19 shutdown. Here’s a roundup of the biggest cyber stories:

Kaspersky filed a preliminary injunction to counter DHS ban: Kaspersky Lab filed a preliminary injunction in U.S. federal court on Jan. 17, 2018, over the Department of Homeland Security’s binding operational directive banning the product’s use in government agencies.

“Kaspersky Lab has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction (PI) in its appeal to challenge the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Binding Operational Directive 17-01 (BOD). The company has made this filing in hopes that the court will address and resolve the appeal expeditiously in light of the BOD’s damage to the company,” Kaspersky Lab told Federal Times in a statement.

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