American cybersecurity firm McAfee will no longer allow U.S. or foreign governments to review its products’ source code, a company spokesperson confirmed.
The disclosure comes after Reuters reported earlier this year that some American technology companies, including McAfee, IBM and others, had complied with Russian requests to review source code in order to gain access to the Russian market.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has come under particular scrutiny after it was revealed that it allowed Moscow to review the source code of its ArcSight cybersecurity product, which is used by the Pentagon to secure its systems.
It is unclear precisely when McAfee stopped allowing the reviews, though Reuters reported that they stopped after the company spun off from Intel as an independent company at the beginning of April.
“The new McAfee has defined all its own new processes, reflecting business, competitive and threat landscapes unique to our space,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “This decision is a result of this transition effort.”
McAfee is a global company with headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.
Russia’s security and defense entities have asked for the reviews in order for cybersecurity products to be approved for sale in their country. The reviews are purportedly conducted to check for backdoor vulnerabilities in foreign products, but security experts say they could also allow Russia to find vulnerabilities that could be exploited in cyberattacks.
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