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| Kaspersky products on display during a product launch in Beijing in 2011. (File photo/Xinhua) |
A Chinese
government procurement agency has excluded Symantec and Kaspersky, two foreign
security software developers, from a security software supplier list.
According
to a report from Beijing Youth Daily, all the five antivirus softwares in the
list are from China, including Qihoo 360, Venustech, CAJinchen, Beijing
Jiangmin and Rising.
China's
homegrown technology companies also got the better of their foreign
counterparts in the personal computer operating system supplier list, making
Microsoft the only foreign brand.
There is no
indication whether the move has some connection with China's emphasis on the
security of IT products and software after Edward Snowden's leaks about the
intelligence gathering project PRISM from the National Security Agency of the
United States.
China's
State Internet Information Office announced in May that it would start security
vetting of major IT products and services for use by national security and
public interests.
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