I've worked in multiple European environments (gov & private sector) that mandated usage of European anti-virus & firewalls. In finance I had a client that did

I've worked in multiple European environments (gov & private sector) that mandated usage of European anti-virus & firewalls. In finance I had a client that didn't trust any vendor and asked me to reverse engineer VPN appliances (they negotiate a special clause with the vendor), which makes more sense then trusting based on country of origin.