"MIT and Stanford Researchers Develop Operating System With One Major Promise: Resisting Ransomware"
A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University are working on an operating system that includes built-in cybersecurity protection. This new operating system will be resilient against common cyberattacks and recover from ransomware infections in minutes. Michael Stonebraker, a serial technology entrepreneur and computer scientist at MIT, is one of the individuals behind the project, with his work on database systems having earned him the Turing Award in 2015. Matei Zaharia, an associate professor at Stanford University and the creator of the Apache Spark project, and Jeremy Kepnew, the head of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center, are collaborating with Stonebraker on the operating system. The system is based on databases that save and track all events and changes within the operating system. This article continues to discuss the new operating system with built-in cybersecurity defenses developed by MIT and Stanford researchers.