BharOS looks to provide its technology for routers

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

BharOS, an indigenously developed mobile operating system, is considering providing its technology for routers, said Karthik Ayyar, the founder of JandK Operations, an IIT Madras incubated non-profit organisation that has built BharOS.

“We are looking at different variants of our operating system for different purposes,” Ayyar told ET.

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“For example, one of the variants we are looking at is if you look at security and privacy in a broader context, typically most devices are connected to the internet through routers so we are looking at utilising the same principles of BharOS and putting them in network devices and routers so people are able to take advantage of it.”

BharOS is a mobile operating system focused on privacy and security. A mobile operating system is a software that is the core interface on a smartphone such as Android by Google and iOS by Apple. BharOS is an Indian government-funded project to develop a free and open-source operating system (OS) for use in government and public systems to reduce dependence on foreign OS in smartphones and promote indigenous technology.

Ayyar said when a device is infected, there’s no way of knowing it is infected and could be leaking information, which entails risk since in a typical home or enterprise, multiple devices are connected.

“Now that we have worked on securing phones, we are seeing how we can secure our laptops and desktops in our computing infrastructure. That’s one of the reasons why we