NextGov: Kaspersky Lab anti-virus has been scrubbed from all federal government computer systems, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., confirmed Tuesday.
The Russian software remains on some contractor systems, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said during testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security panel, but the effort to remove it is “pretty advanced.”
Homeland Security’s top cyber official, Jeanette Manfra, earlier disclosed that agencies were all in compliance with an October directive mandating the removal of Kaspersky software, but stopped short of saying the removal was complete.
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