Special editions
Security distributions hand you one big box: everything, for everyone, then good luck. Here every edition is a job, with its own colour, its own posture, and its defences already switched on. The penguin stays the same. The team changes.
The purist
I choose my own tools, but who arms the defences?
your own work, on a base that defends itself
This is you if you choose your own tools and want nothing you did not ask for, but you would happily hand over the upkeep of the firewall, the snapshots and the detection.
The one who gets in
Can it be broken into?
reconnaissance, attempt, report
This is you if the question that keeps you awake is “what if I tried from over there?”
The one who was watching
Did we notice?
logs, correlation, reconstruction
This is you if your victory is an incident that never became a disaster, and that nobody will ever notice.
The one who does both
Does the defence actually hold?
attack, then go and look from the other side
This is you if you do not trust a control you have never seen fail.
The one who takes it apart
What does this program really do?
take apart, understand, put back together
This is you if the first thing you do with something new is open it.
It is that the defences are armed and verified. Installing a tool is the easy part. Remembering, on the twentieth machine, which service had to be started and not merely installed is another trade. And a service that is installed but switched off looks exactly like one that is protecting you.
Access is by invitation, one group at a time. Tell us which edition fits the work you do, and we write to you when the next group opens.
Which edition are you?Twenty questions, three minutes
Currently available by invitation only.
A general-purpose distribution hands everyone the same large collection of tools and leaves the setup to you. Each EVOLUTOS edition is built around one job instead, and its defences are already switched on and verified. The difference is not what is installed. It is what is running.
Yes, on every edition. The Workstation edition exists for exactly that: a clean base with the defences armed, and the choice of tools left to you. Installing a tool is the easy part of the job, so it is the part we leave alone.
That is the Purple Team edition: it is for people who run the attack and then go and check what trace it left. If you spend most of the week on one side and only visit the other, pick that side. The edition is a posture, not a limit: none of them stops you doing the other work.
Red Team asks whether it can be broken into, and writes down how. Purple Team runs the same attack and then goes to the other side to see what trace it left. If you never check from the defending end, you are red. If that check is the whole point, you are purple.
It is an identity you recognise yourself in. We set out to build YOUR operating system: let us know if we got there!
That the security services are running, not merely present. Installing a tool is the easy part. Remembering, on the twentieth machine, which service had to be started and then checking that it still is, is another job entirely. A service installed and switched off looks exactly like one that is protecting you, which is why we never count tools.
No. Same platform, same base, same defences: only the trade changes. That is what the penguin is for. It stays the same on all five, and what moves is the colour and the posture.
Workstation editions: the machine you work on. For servers there is the EVOLUTOS server line, presented on the home page.