In an effort to phase out what many in the security world believe are threats to the cybersecurity posture of governmental agencies and private entities alike, John Quinn, the Chief Information Officer of the State of Vermont, recently issued a memo to all state offices requesting that they determine whether any hardware or software manufactured by Kaspersky Lab (which has been linked by the U.S. government to the Russian government), Huawei or ZTE (both of which have been accused of spying on U.S. companies for the Chinese government) is being used in any state systems.
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