IoT security and Linux: Why IncludeOS thinks it has the edge

guest · Nov 12, 2018

IoT security and Linux: Why IncludeOS thinks it has the edge
November 12, 2018
https://www.zdnet.com/article/iot-security-and-linux-why-includeos-thinks-it-has-the-edge/

A major part of the problem lies with the operating system running on these devices, which by its nature is reconfigurable and open for internal and external communications.

IncludeOS links only the OS functionality that the application needs into the binary software image, thus reducing both its size and possible attack surfaces. This approach is normally termed a 'library OS'.

IncludeOS runs in a single address space, so there are neither interprocess communications nor concepts like user space and kernel space.

As Linux, and most other OSes [...] they are reconfigurable. This quality can make them vulnerable to malicious misuse by an attacker.
"The ability for the operating system to reconfigure itself is something we never implemented. [...]" Buer says.
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