Linux-friendly microkernel OS tightens mobile security
Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) has upgraded its microkernel operating system (OS) and Linux-friendly virtual machine environment for embedded devices. OKL4 version 2.0 adds technology aimed at protecting a phone's call-making capabilities despite attacks, malware, or faults within OSes, applications, and drivers.
OKLabs claims its OKL4 microkernel to be the top embedded virtualization environment in the mobile phone market, in terms of units deployed. Now shipping in "millions of units per month," according to company claims, the product has seen use in multiple Linux-based handset models from Toshiba, and in multiple Windows CE-based devices from Taiwanese manufacturing giant HTC. The microkernel's thin hardware abstraction layer also supports Symbian as a guest OS, CEO Steve Subar (pictured below) told LinuxDevices in a recent interview.
