Russia requesting to review source code of Western companies’ security products

Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to review source code for security products such as firewalls, anti-virus applications and software containing encryption before permitting the products to be imported and sold in the country.

Country: Global

Domains: IG

Stakeholder: Government

Tags: access to source code, tech companies, industry, encryption, Russia, security

Posted on Saturday 29 July 2017

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