Kaspersky Lab Developing 'Secure' Operating System

Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab announced Tuesday that it plans to develop a secure operating system to protect critical infrastructure systems from online attacks. The new operating system aims to protect complex industrial systems that have become the target of a variety of high-profile cyberweapons such as Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame and Gauss. Governments are also concerned that the systems that keep critical infrastructure running could be compromised.

"Quite a few rumors about this project have appeared already on the Internet, so I guess it's time to lift the curtain (a little) on our secret project and let you know (a bit) about what's really going on," Kaspersky said in a blog post.

"Today there exists neither operating systems nor software that could be applied in industrial/infrastructural environments whose produced data on processes could be fully trusted," wrote company founder Eugene Kaspersky. "And this left us with no other option than to begin developing something new ourselves."

Kaspersky didn't provide details about the planned operating system, but said in his blog post Tuesday that for such an operating system to succeed and provide a guarantee of security, "it must contain no mistakes or vulnerabilities whatsoever in the kernel," and "must be 100 percent verified as not permitting vulnerabilities or dual-purpose code" and would need to "provide the full range of the very latest principles of security."

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