RhinOS 26 — Secure Enterprise NAS Operating System
Containerize Your AI Workflow.
RhinOS powers Ciphertex SecureNAS® systems in mission-critical environments, delivering military-grade security, ZFS data integrity, and modern container-based extensibility — all in a simple, hardened, appliance-ready OS.
Engineered for defense, government, healthcare, forensics, energy, and enterprise deployments that demand confidentiality, integrity, and resilience at the edge and in secure data centers.
What’s New in RhinOS 26
A major security and capability upgrade
Designed for secure workloads and controlled application deployment
not a consumer app stack.
Container Support
Run approved OCI containers in a secure, isolated environment.
Docker
Local container development & deployment through Docker with embedded Portainer
Kubernetes
Large- and small-scale container orchestration through Kubernetes.
Selectable TLS versions
TLS version selection for compliance and zero-trust environments. Support environments needing older TLS 1, and TLS 1.1 through more secure TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3.
Enhanced firewall &
access controls
Strengthened network protection and service hardening with whitelisting and blacklisting by IP and service.
Modernized Web UI
Faster administration experience and improved system visibility.
Up-to-date Security
Continual updating to protect against the latest security threats and maintain optimal operation.
Customer Benefits:
Containers, Kubernetes & Enhanced Security
Active Directory /
LDAP integration
Modern workloads demand more than storage. RhinOS 26 transforms SecureNAS® into a secure application platform — enabling on-device analytics, automation, cyber defense tools, and modern DevOps workflows without sacrificing the hardened appliance security Ciphertex is known for.
Why Containers Matter for Customers
Containers provide a lightweight, controlled method to deploy modern tools directly on the SecureNAS® — without modifying the OS or risking system integrity.
Key Benefits:
Deploy tools securely without exposing the system to untrusted packages or full OS installs.
Run isolated workloads (forensics tools, analytics modules, AI inference engines*, cyber defense agents).
Zero impact to core NAS stability — containers run in sandboxed zones.
Faster deployment cycles for new capabilities, patches, and mission-specific apps.
Vendor-approved execution ensures only authorized containers can run.
Future-proof architecture aligned with modern DevOps, automation, and edge-compute frameworks.
Even legacy non-GPU units can run CPU-based AI inference, cyber analytics, and automation containers.
ZFS Data Integrity & RAID Protection
RhinOS delivers enterprise-grade data protection using the OpenZFS file system, ensuring fault
tolerance, integrity, and high availability in mission-critical environments.
Mirror
RAID-1
Survives 1-disk failure
Highest redundancy, high
performance reads
RAID-Z1
RAID-5
Survives 1-disk failure
General secure NAS workloads
RAID-Z2
RAID-6
Survives 2-disk failures
Mission-critical, forensic, healthcare, gov
RAID-Z3
RAID-7
Survives 3-disk failures
High-availability + high-capacity clusters
Striped Mirror
RAID-10
Survives multiple disk failures
More capacity with higher speed
Striped Z1
RAID-50
Survives multiple disk failures
More capacity with higher speed
Striped Z2
RAID-60
Survives multiple disk failures
More capacity with higher speed
Mirror
RAID-1
Survives multiple disk failures
More capacity with higher speed
Striped Z1 Mirror
RAID-10
Secure USB port lockdown
More capacity with higher speed
Striped Z1
RAID-50
Built-in antivirus & firewall protection
More capacity with higher speed
Striped Z2
RAID-60
Multi-layer encryption — data at rest & in transit
More capacity with higher speed
Striped Z3
RAID-70
Survives multiple
disk failures
More capacity with higher speed
Key Advantages
ZFS delivers integrity, resilience, and speed far beyond traditional RAID controllers — designed for accuracy, continuity, and regulatory compliance.
Up to triple-parity protection
Self-healing data paths
End-to-end checksumming with automated repair
Up to triple-parity protection
Petabyte-scale expansion via VDEVs & pooling
Inline compression & deduplication
Secure Container & Kubernetes Execution
Run secure containerized services with integrated Kubernetes support — designed for controlled enterprise and mission-critical environments.
OCI container support
Local container development, testing, and deployment through Docker and a special local version of Portainer
Isolated execution environment for high-security deployments
Kubernetes-enabled runtime for Cluster participation
Kubernetes Worker-Node capability for secure, scaled distributed container workloads
Deploy forensic tools, cyber defense agents, analytics modules & secure workloads
Preserves appliance-grade security posture
Optimized for secure scaled participation in Kubernetes environments — can act as a worker node in your cluster.
Enterprise File & Block Services
Flexible multi-protocol access to meet any IT workflow
Mix secure file-sharing, SAN, backup, and remote workflows seamlessly.
SMB/CIFS with AD support
SMB/CIFS with AD support
NFSv4
WebDAV & SFTP/FTP
iSCSI block storage
USB share support
Rsync client/server
USB share support
Virtualization & Edge
Compute Support
Forensics, cyber tools, and system appliances — without external infrastructure.
Run controlled virtual machines for secure tasks and isolated workloads
VirtualBox-enabled VM support
Windows, Linux,
BSD and proprietary guest OS options
RDP access
Simple import/export across virtualization platforms
Backup, Replication & Recovery
Built-in data durability and ransomware resilience
Duplicati-based encrypted backup
Multi-site replication
Cloud backup targets (Azure, AWS S3, Google Cloud, etc.)
Schedule or manual sync jobs
USB one-touch backup
Volume/LUN snapshots & instant restore
Keep mission data safe — anywhere.
Management & Monitoring
Simple control for complex secure environments
Built for operators, analysts, and secure IT administrators
Web-based
management console
Real-time health
monitoring & alerting
SNMP integration
For Secure and
Regulated Use Cases
Validated across demanding environments
U.S. military & defense missions
Federal & state government
Law enforcement & digital forensics
Healthcare & HIPAA environments
Energy, oil & gas, and remote industrial sites
Cybersecurity labs & critical infrastructure
Trusted where failure is not an option.
RhinOS 26 protects your most mission-critical data with uncompromising security, engineered reliability, and controlled modern extensibility — proven in the most demanding environments on earth.
Customer Testimonials at bottom and raid calculator link will remain same as before.
Benefits of Kubernetes Integration
RhinOS 26 brings “data-plus-compute” to the edge — securely.
Kubernetes brings orchestration and scale to secure environments — even when running as a Worker Node.
What this unlocks for customers
Distributed workloads across multiple SecureNAS units
(threat analysis, scanning, metadata tagging, microservices).
Enterprise-grade automation
for container updates, failover, and scaling.
Hybrid-edge deployments
for defense, field forensics, and remote industrial sites.
Secure participation in larger enterprise clusters
without exposing the NAS OS to the public internet.
Consistent workloads from dev → test → production
even in air-gapped environments.
AI Integration
Enables direct connectivity for
containerized AI models, analytics engines,
and orchestration frameworks such as
Kubernetes and Docker.
Consistent workloads from dev → test → production
even in air-gapped environments.
Data
Sovereignty
Fully contained within U.S.-based
infrastructure - supporting defense,
government, and regulated sectors.
Scalable
Architecture
Expand from a single node to
multi-petabyte clusters with no
workflow disruption.
AI Integration
Enables direct connectivity for
containerized AI models, analytics engines,
and orchestration frameworks such as
Kubernetes and Docker.
Enhanced Security: Real Operational Value
RhinOS 26’s strengthened zero-trust framework directly improves mission assurance.
Advantages to the customer
Selective TLS (1.0 → 1.3)
ensures compatibility with legacy agencies while enabling modern, secure protocols.
IP Whitelisting/Blacklisting
prevents unauthorized hosts from communicating with the system.
Hardened services
reduce the attack surface for bad actors.
RBAC + AD/LDAP
ensure only the right personnel access sensitive datasets.
Encrypted communication & storage
protect data in motion and at rest — even in contested environments.
Container isolation
prevents application-level vulnerabilities from impacting core system functions.
Rapid Return on Investment
RhinOS 26 reduces integration effort, removes the need for external compute nodes for many workloads, eliminates licensing costs for common tools, and consolidates storage + secure compute into a single hardened appliance — delivering a significantly faster ROI than traditional NAS or multi-vendor deployments.