Server security your team can understand, prove, and explain to anyone.
The fundamentals of cybersecurity aren't complicated — they're just expensive to apply at scale. On a standard Linux server with tens of thousands of files, applying them seems impossible.
So we asked a simple question: what if an OS had fewer than 20 files? Could a team master the fundamentals of cybersecurity on a system that small? We built Ginger OS to find out.
See how security reviews are simplified and streamlined with Ginger OS.
Below is a side-by-side comparison of how a subset of security controls are implemented on a general-purpose OS versus Ginger OS.
| Security Control Question |  Ginger OS (< 20 Files) |
General OS (40,000+ Files) |
|---|---|---|
| How do you ensure the principle of least privilege? | Every file on the system is audited. The principle of least privilege is provable. | Only a fraction of files are audited. All binaries are executable by all processes. |
| How do you manage login credentials? | No login credentials exist. No one can log in — not even with physical access. | SSH keys must be managed and rotated manually. |
| How do you monitor for threats? | Every minute, all executable code is scanned to verify all code is authorized. | Monitoring depends on periodic scans from third-party tools and an evolving baseline. |
Up and Running in 3 Steps
Here's how you deploy your application on Ginger OS.
Build your hardened image
Package your application into a virtual machine disk image at build time.
Configure your deployment
Package your configuration files and secrets into a deployment disk.
Launch your Virtual Machine
Deploy your VM as an EC2 instance on AWS or use a local KVM/QEMU stack.
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