Kaspersky Lab announced that a series of rigorous evaluations of a smartphone powered by KasperskyOS across 2G, 3G, and 4G networks have reached completion. The company’s press service shared the news with socialbites.ca, highlighting Megafon as a partner in the trial. The project underscores Kaspersky Lab’s ongoing efforts to validate secure mobile operating systems within real world telecom environments and aligns with broader industry moves toward hardened devices used on public networks across North America. The tests were conducted in collaboration with a mobile operator partner, reflecting a joint approach to security verification right from the device level through to network interfaces and service delivery. The inclusion of an outside operator partner emphasizes practical, field oriented testing rather than lab only scenarios, a key step in ensuring that KasperskyOS can perform reliably when customers depend on mixed network ecosystems and varying transmission conditions.
The evaluation focused on confirming compliance with established cellular communication standards and ensuring precise data exchange over the internet, reliable call initiation, message delivery, and seamless transitions among the varied generations of mobile networking. An unnamed Asian smartphone model participated in the test program to provide a real world counterpart to the KasperskyOS powered device, enabling side by side assessments of performance, security controls, and signaling behavior under common user actions. Kaspersky Lab stated that completing this phase moves the company closer to producing serial devices based on KasperskyOS for broader markets, while maintaining a rigorous development and validation cadence.
Kaspersky Lab described the mobile platform tests as part of a comprehensive laboratory program that includes more than 250 distinct scenarios. Each test involved capturing the signaling exchanges between the mobile device and the network to verify timing, sequencing, and data integrity under varied conditions. When useful, the team compared how a KasperskyOS based device performed against a reference device running a baseline operating system, providing a clear benchmark for security and interoperability in the same operational context. The organization emphasized that the testing methodology remains consistent across multiple deployments to ensure comparable results and to drive improvements in system resilience.
The company also indicated ongoing testing initiatives on networks belonging to local cellular operators in other major markets, including China and several countries in the Middle East. This expansion mirrors a strategic push to validate secure mobile solutions across diverse regulatory environments and network architectures, ensuring that the platform can adapt to different signaling protocols and vendor implementations while maintaining robust security guarantees. In a related note, Kaspersky Lab has previously explored consumer oriented initiatives aimed at improving digital well being, including tools designed to address smartphone overuse and addiction, illustrating a portfolio approach that combines device security with user health and responsible usage considerations. [citation attribution: Kaspersky Lab press service]