Study of built-in information protection tools of Unix systems on the example of malware infection

Authors: Nikroshkin I. V., Medvedev M. A., Ognev I. A., Krasnikov A. D.

Annotation: This article provides a comparative analysis of the built-in in-formation protection tools of the Unix family operating systems using the example of malware infection of the operating system. The study involved open-source operating systems – Debian, and domestic operating systems – Alt Linux, RedOS, Astra Linux Special Edition. A ransomware virus was used as a mali-cious software. The presented results demonstrate the greatest ability of the Astra Linux operating system to resist malware infection.

Keywords: information security, information protection, malicious soft-ware, virus, ransomware, operating system, information protec-tion tool