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Kaspersky launches its own OS
- woliveirajr 10y agoKaspersky launches an OS to be used in routers and in critical equipment. To be more secure it was written from scratch, and > To achieve a guarantee of security it must contain no mistakes or vulnerabilities whatsoever in the kernel [...] Here is where it begins: IMHO, Cisco and any other manufacturer of sensitive OSes, even Microsoft with Windows NT, probably had a goal of not having defects and vulnerabilities. But security isn't a binary knowledge, where you just know or don't. Many attacks, many exploits, happened in ways that nobody had previously imagined. To be secure, all possibilities must be considered during manufacturing/development. To be insecure, just one failure needs to be found, in any point. Example: if the data you send to some input (that is perfectly secured, sanitized and so on) can cause a RAM bit-flip, there goes your security, even if the blame goes to the chip manufacturer...