It's not that surprising. Typically when you work with Governments, everything is specially done, doubly so for the US Government. Custom Federal forks of the m

It's not that surprising. Typically when you work with Governments, everything is specially done, doubly so for the US Government. Custom Federal forks of the main product (with feature parity), heavily customized SLAs, full access to the source code for review, and lots more to ensure that it meets the US Federal standards. The Anti-Kaspersky stuff is likely just chest beating. I get it at the base level, and that AV software in general grants a much deeper reach that most softwares, but most likely they're not installing the same Kaspersky that anyone else is. My current employer is a rather large non-US tech company, and we have custom branches for every product specifically made for the US Federal Government. It's all rebuilt from the ground up on US soil by US Nationals and the US Government has freedom to review the code. It's the price you pay to play with the US Government. I would find it very hard to believe that Kaspersky doesn't have something similar.