Kaspersky OS

#1

Post by itiman » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 7:42 AM UTC

Kaspersky OS
eugene.kaspersky.com

Re: Kaspersky OS

#2

Post by JetSpiegel » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:06 AM UTC

> Third, everything has been built from scratch. Anticipating your questions: not even the slightest smell of Linux.

Built from scratch and secure, no Linux input. It's the Holy grail, move over Theo.

Re: Kaspersky OS

#3

Post by allendoerfer » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:07 AM UTC

> Meanwhile, all around this alchemy folks were fairly astonished: just what were we thinking? We’d decided to make an unhackable platform and ruin our other security business model?!

If a business wants to survive in the long term, it should always answer this question with: Would it be better if we would build it or others would do it? Because someone will eventually do it.

Re: Kaspersky OS

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Post by nateguchi » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:07 AM UTC

> not even the slightest smell of Linux

Interesting to see if this catches on in the embedded / IoT space, I guess it's a bit of a leap writing drivers / software for a different OS

Re: Kaspersky OS

#5

Post by mablap » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:08 AM UTC

There are no real details about the OS in the article. Did anybody here work on the project?

Re: Kaspersky OS

#6

Post by qznc » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:14 AM UTC

No mention of verification like seL4 or CertiKOS?

Re: Kaspersky OS

#7

Post by f_allwein » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:15 AM UTC

Will this be open source, or will we have to trust Kapersky that it is secure?

Re: Kaspersky OS

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:23 AM UTC

This is interesting, yes, but secure is not secure because we had a nice architectural idea. It's a long term process of review and improvement.

If they release this as open source I would be interested in looking and learning more and in a year or two, if the community develops maybe it's something worth deploying to production

But a completely new OS? Not on day one I think

Re: Kaspersky OS

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Post by alexandr451 » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:25 AM UTC

mablap wrote: post #5

There are no real details about the OS in the article. Did anybody here work on the project?

From what I heard from people that work there, this company mistreats employees and has huge problems with management. I could provide a proof link, but it's in Russian.

Re: Kaspersky OS

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Post by Animats » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 8:25 AM UTC

Somebody finally did this. Good for them. Unbreakable boxes for DNS, BGP, and routers will be a good start. Those boxes don't need to do anything else, and contain no user data.

Looking forward to hearing more about their OS.