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title: Kaspersky Goes to Court to Fight Homeland Security Ban
description: Kaspersky takes to Twitter and to Federal Court to appeal the DHS ban of the company's anti-virus.
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# [Kaspersky Goes to Court to Fight Homeland Security Ban](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/kaspersky-fights-government-ban)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Tue | Dec 19, 2017 | 3:32 PM Z

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security decision to ban Kaspersky Lab anti-virus from use in federal agencies is a decision that has now landed in court.

On Monday, Kaspersky filed an appeal, saying the decision has hurt U.S. Sales and its reputation for no legitimate reason.

"The company asserts that the DHS’s decision is unconstitutional and relied on subjective, non-technical public sources such as uncorroborated and often anonymously sourced media reports, related claims and rumors. Furthermore, DHS has failed to provide the company adequate due process to rebut the unsubstantiated allegations underlying the Directive and has not provided any evidence of wrongdoing by the company."

You can read Kaspersky's [play-by-play analysis](https://usa.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2017_kaspersky-lab-appeals-us-department-of-homeland-security-debarment) of how it views things, if you'd like to read more.

And company founder Eugene Kaspersky also Tweeted about the issue, as he's known to do:

[View full post](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/kaspersky-fights-government-ban)

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