The operating scheme is non made for your average habitation PC; instead, it is meant to protect industrial systems together with embedded devices from cyber attacks yesteryear preventing whatsoever third-party or malicious code from executing.
Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky confirmed the rumors of a novel operating scheme on his official blog published on Monday, maxim this projection nether the codename 11-11 has been inward the industrial plant for xiv years together with has been designed from scratch.
The argue behind developing KasperskyOS is simple: Growing Internet-of-Things together with embedded devices inward industrial command systems (ICS) to ability critical infrastructure.
It's quite slowly for virtually companies to larn rid of the virus-infected computer, every bit they all involve to practise is unplug the infected ones from the network, according to Kaspersky.
But since industrial command systems (ICS) are ordinarily managing critical operations or infrastructure that must hold upward powered on all the fourth dimension together with tin flame non hold upward taken offline for fifty-fifty a while, the malware targeting these ICS systems is a challenging problem.
So, according to Kaspersky, the solution lies inward a secure operating scheme amongst strict cyber safety requirements that could assist cut the chances of undocumented functionality together with hence mitigates the endangerment of cyber attacks targeting ICS or IoT devices.
It’s Secure, But KasperskyOS is non Linux!
Yes, this OS is non simply around other Linux flavor.
One of the major distinctive features of Kaspersky OS is that the GUI-less operating scheme has been constructed from scratch together with does non comprise fifty-fifty a unmarried string of Linux code inward it.
"All the pop operating systems are non designed amongst safety inward mind, together with so it is simpler together with safer to root from the soil upward together with practise everything correctly. Which is simply what nosotros did," said Kaspersky.
The novel OS has been designed to allow programs to execute only documented operations nether its strict safety policy. Only what is defined yesteryear the policy tin flame hold upward executed, including the functionality of the OS itself.
The customers tin flame too essay out the source code of KasperskyOS to brand certain the operating scheme has no undocumented capabilities. The OS too has independent safety engine that lets users enforce the policy that suits their safety objectives.
KasperskyOS is non a general-purpose operating system; instead, it is designed for embedded devices, including IoT, telecommunications equipment, connected cars, together with industrial command systems.
To practise a packet that could hold upward applied inward several dissimilar areas of granular customization, Kaspersky has developed 3 products:
- An Operating System (KasperskyOS)
- A standalone secure hypervisor (KSH) for running virtual machines
- A scheme for secure interaction betwixt OS components (KSS)
KasperskyOS was designed to non only solves safety issues but too addresses organizational together with concern challenges related to secure application evolution for embedded systems.
More detailed technical specifications of the OS tin flame hold upward establish on the official KasperskyOS page together with the KasperskyOS whitepaper.
