nsane.forums Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Ending the rumor mill, Kaspersky Labs has confirmed plans to create a new operating system to combat major industrial exploits. The world is connected -- through the Internet, smart grids, mobile technology, communication platforms and central power systems. Recognizing this means that you also have to recognize that with each connection and additional layer, security becomes more important -- and systems driven by networking may be more vulnerable. Businesses are often the target of cyberattacks due to the illict fame of success, or the payoffs that can result from breaching the security of national systems, whether achieved through hacktivist groups, individuals or countries. Recognizing this, security firm Kaspersky Labs is committed to building a new kind of operation system in the hopes of defending against major industrial exploits and attacks. It won't be an operating system like Windows or Mac, but will work as an "additional security layer" that runs on top of an original OS -- monitoring healthy systems and isolating threats including malware. Eugene Kapersky writes: "Our system is highly tailored, developed for solving a specific narrow task, and not intended for playing Half-Life on, editing your vacation videos, or blathering on social media. We're working on methods of writing software which by design won’t be able to carry out any behind-the-scenes, undeclared activity. This is the important bit: the impossibility of executing third-party code, or of breaking into the system or running unauthorized applications on our OS; and this is both provable and testable." The operating system will be tailored for industrial use. Kapersky mentions nuclear power stations, energy supply, transportation control facilities, financial and telecommunications systems as infrastructures which must be protected -- to stop malware from disrupting energy allocation, phone networks or stealing sensitive information. The difference between industrial and personal systems is that industrial projects must be kept operational at all costs -- you cannot simply turn off and reboot a sewage system, for example. In recent years, supposedly state-sponsored cyberattacks including Stuxnet and Flame makes security even more crucial -- and even though Kapersky has not released many specific details, it does mean that crucial services and systems may have a more secure future. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambrocious Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 This seems like a mock virtualized OS which the malware wont know NOT to target first. Built into the mock OS is the antimalware it's self. It's like wearing a bullet proof vest that looks like a sweater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ande Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 This seems like a mock virtualized OS which the malware wont know NOT to target first. Built into the mock OS is the antimalware it's self. It's like wearing a bullet proof vest that looks like a sweater. Nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0nyB Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 This seems like a mock virtualized OS which the malware wont know NOT to target first. Built into the mock OS is the antimalware it's self. It's like wearing a bullet proof vest that looks like a sweater. Nice one.Thanks for summing in up for us. :) A very good point indeed... Might come in handy for some of the people but for the techies who know how to avoid malware it won't. Still a nice place to test what some malware can do and how to remove it/them. :) I support the move by Kaspersky. :thumbsup: EDIT: Contradicted my talk, :lol:. Maybe the anti-malware can be disable and some other software used? But then again, why use it at all then, when there are virtural machine software out there? It just a safety measure and seems to be a pretty good one at teory. Seems a resource hogger too... But maybe not... Well see :). EDIT2: Kaspersky users have considered the high resource use to the system that the security software inflicts, usually, so they don't mind it I guess. So not a worry, I bet... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooperb Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Nah, there is no way to deal with hackers, just to live with them, every additional layer of security helps in every way :) We will defiantly be using the new product Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Eugene Kapersky writes ...... Who the hell is Eugene Kapersky? There's this guy who founded Kaspersky Lab and he's called - you guessed it - Eugene Kaspersky! :hehe: Looks like they don't have a spellchecker built into their word processing software at zdnet :P Our system is highly tailored ....... and not intended for ............. blathering on social media. Shows how highly he thinks of his customers. Those blatherers are the ones who are putting food on his table. ;) But I guess somebody had to say it :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marke68 Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 It's like wearing a bullet proof vest that looks like a sweater. This is a great quote Ambrocious,i haven't laughed so much in a long time. Imagine a bullet proof sweater. :lol: I'm not making fun of you mate i just found the concept of a bullet proof jumper hilarious. I wonder if james bond has one. :P Edit : Typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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