Anti-virus products set to increase domestic brand restrictions

In mid-July, Sohu It has reported the 2014 Central Government Procurement Agreement supplier list of all anti-virus software using domestic software information, recently, updated list, has been "trend technology" deleted. Currently the latest anti-virus software products have 360, the Crown group of Golden Chen, Jiangmin technology, rising, Jinshan and other five, all domestic brands.

Anti-virus software bidding to increase "domestic brand" restrictions

According to the information that Sohu it understands, the related department originally only request is homebred software can participate in the government to collect the tender. In the process of bidding, the "domestic software" to determine the standard is, as long as the product is in the domestic packaging, it can be considered "domestic". And then increased the demand, must be "domestic brand" to carry out the bid.

Trend technology can be considered as an international company in Taiwan region. Industry insiders to Sohu it said, in the National Network Information Security Review system, trend technology was excluded anti-virus software collection list, should have a great relationship with the background of internationalization.

Other parts of the security sector, however, do not have to be a "domestically branded" restriction for the time being. Information on the central government procurement online shows IBM's presence in intrusion detection and vulnerability scanning products. Trend technology of malicious code scanning products OfficeScan and virtualization security products deep also remain in the column.

Reuters report headline or misinterpreted by media

On the weekend, the People's Daily posted a message via its Twitter account that government procurement agencies have removed Symantec and Kaspersky from the list of security software vendors, with five of all suppliers from China. Reuters, according to this tweet, wrote an article called "Beijing to Bar Symantec, Kaspersky Anti in procurement" (the Government prohibits the procurement of Symantec and Kaspersky Antivirus software). When this article was translated into the country by a media, the headline became "The Chinese government will disable Symantec and Kaspersky anti-virus software."

Symantec and Kaspersky are excluded from the procurement list, as they are the result of "foreign brands". And Symantec has another background, its DLP data leakage protection products in June, the Ministry of Public Security identified the existence of cyber backdoor and high-risk security vulnerabilities, so that the whole system was unloaded to trigger a ripple effect.

Kaspersky said that the recent central government procurement network temporarily cancelled all foreign security supplier qualification, only retained the domestic security suppliers. This change involves only central state agencies within the central government procurement budget, and local governments and state enterprises and institutions are not within the scope of this provision.

As of the Sohu it press time, Symantec Greater China has not yet an official reply to the matter.

A security manufacturer of Sohu it said that, with the national level more and more attention to information security and network Information Security review system, the foreign hardware and software manufacturers of products in the focus area will gradually reduce the share. This is a huge opportunity for domestic security firms.

Since the personal antivirus market has been occupied by free software, some of the security enterprises are now focused on the enterprise-class domain. For foreign security enterprises, because it is still in the personal market to carry out the strategy of charging, its surplus channels rely more on enterprises and industry market.

The foreign brands are expected to step up their public relations efforts to maintain the advantages of foreign brands in the corporate and industry markets, the person said.