{"id":188096,"date":"2016-11-19T07:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=188096"},"modified":"2016-11-19T07:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:49:01","slug":"move-over-linux-kaspersky-launches-new-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/188096-move-over-linux-kaspersky-launches-new-operating-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Move over Linux &#8211; Kaspersky launches new operating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eugene.kaspersky.com\/2016\/11\/15\/finally-our-own-os-oh-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>has unveiled<\/strong><\/a> its new operating system, called\u00a0Kaspersky OS.<\/p>\n<p>The OS has been in development for 14 years and makes its debut on a Kraftway Layer 3 Switch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This unassuming black box is a protected layer 3 switch powered by Kaspersky OS and designed for networks with extreme requirements for data security,&#8221; said Kaspersky.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the OS has &#8220;no Linux&#8221; in it and was designed from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the popular operating systems aren\u2019t designed with security in mind, so it\u2019s simpler and safer to start from the ground up and do everything correctly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky OS is based on microkernel architecture and\u00a0can be custom-designed as per requirements by using different modification blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The OS also features high levels of security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order to hack this platform a cyber-baddie would need to break the digital signature, which \u2013 any time before the introduction of quantum computers \u2013 would be exorbitantly expensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Switch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-188098 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Switch-640x326.jpg\" alt=\"switch\" width=\"640\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Switch-640x326.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Switch-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Switch.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/186783-how-much-vodacom-and-mtn-know-about-where-youve-been.html\">How much Vodacom and MTN know about where you\u2019ve been<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky Lab has unveiled its new operating system, called Kaspersky OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":123802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[36,1595,39864],"class_list":["post-188096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-active","tag-kaspersky","tag-kaspersky-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188100,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188096\/revisions\/188100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}