HardenedBSD is a derivative of FreeBSD, officially founded in 2014, that implements exploit mitigations and security hardening technologies. The primary goal of HardenedBSD is to perform a clean-room re-implementation of the grsecurity patchset for Linux to HardenedBSD.
Work on HardenedBSD began in 2013 when Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb started working on an implementation of Address Space Layout