Kaspersky announces KasperskyOS, a secure solution for IoT, network devices and more
Russian cybersecurity and antivirus vendor Kaspersky has announced today the availability of KasperskyOS, its secure operating system aimed at network devices, industrial control systems and the Internet of Things.
In a post on his official blog, Eugene Kaspersky (chief executive of the company) revealed that this project has been in the works for 14 years, and that it was known under the codename 11-11. The latter was due to the original concept being conceived on November 11.
KasperskyOS takes concepts from the Flux Advanced Security Kernel (FLASK) architecture on which previous systems like SELinux and SEBSD are based, but does not reproduce them in full. Instead, it is built from scratch with security in mind, enabling what the CEO calls "global Default Deny at the process level". With this instruction at the core, it means the OS will only be able to proceed on matters it is specifically instructed to act upon; everything else being forbidden.
