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17 Sep, 2015

How avionics software technology can help prevent train accidents
How avionics software technology can help prevent train accidents

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How avionics software technology can help prevent train accidents

Lynx Software Technologies2015-09-17T15:22:40+00:00

In the wake of the May 2015 Philadelphia train accident many discussions have ensued as to whether automatic safety technology could have prevented the accident and saved lives and injuries. The crash was caused by a train travelling at over twice the speed limit for a section of track, and although the emergency brake was applied by the engineer, the train still derailed. It is strongly suggested that if both the train and section of track had a PTC system installed and active, then the train would have been automatically slowed and the derailment averted. The intent of Positive Train Control, or PTC, is to increase the safety of railroad transportation of passengers and hazardous materials, as well as increase the safety of railway workers, and was mandated by the United States congress in the Railway Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (RSIA). Positive train control works by tracking the locations of assets (both stationary and mobile), predicting hazardous conditions, and acting to control trains to prevent accidents. There are three primary types of components in a PTC system that all communicate with [...]

10 Sep, 2015

Lynx Software Technologies focuses on Smart System security at European conference

Lynx Software Technologies2015-09-10T15:42:20+00:00

Reading – Wednesday, 9 September 2015, Lynx Software Technologies is focusing on the security and performance of connected Smart Systems at the second Bits&Chips Smart Systems exhibition and conference in the Netherlands, 1 October 2015. Lynx will deliver a paper on Building a secure IoT infrastructure and will be showing how its LynxSecure and LynxOS 7.0 technology can make smart systems secure by design. The paper, delivered by Mark Pitchford, Technical Manager, EMEA looks at designing connected embedded devices to support the cloud, multi-tenancy and App Stores securely. He will show how secure separation can be achieved even within constrained IoT device architectures to deliver the benefits of connectivity without risking the integrity of the device. Visitors to the event can also view demonstrations of the LynxSecure Separation Kernel Hypervisor and LynxOS 7.0. The separation kernel and “Type-0” hypervisor is an award winning bare-metal architecture, designed from the ground up, that differentiates from type 1 hypervisors by removing the un-needed functionality from the “security sensitive” hypervisor mode, yet virtualizes guest OSes in a tiny stand-alone package. Lynx will also be demonstrating LynxOS [...]

6 Aug, 2015

Ad-Sol Nissin and Lynx Software Technologies Announce Security Collaboration

Lynx Software Technologies2015-08-06T09:59:49+00:00

PARTIES PROVIDE HIGHLY SECURE SOLUTIONS USING LYNXSECURE FOR THE GROWING SECURITY NEEDS OF THE JAPANESE MARKET Tokyo, Japan – August 6th, 2015 – Ad-Sol Nissin (3837:TYO) and Lynx Software Technologies, Inc., announced today a new collaboration focused on providing highly secure solutions to the Japanese Market. Ad-sol Nissin and Lynx have worked together for over 20 years providing embedded solutions based on the LynxOS real-time operating system to top tier Japanese companies in the automotive, manufacturing, industrial, office automation and transportation markets. The new collaboration is focused around new secure technologies from Lynx and has been driven by the increasing demand for security solutions in Japan, especially among the social infrastructure associated with the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market. The key technology from Lynx is the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor, which combines the highest levels of security with real-time performance and unique virtualization technology to offer end-to-end protection, from the endpoint, through the gateway and into the cloud. “We have had a very long and fruitful relationship with Lynx, and this collaboration is a very exciting new chapter in the story and brings [...]

7 Jul, 2015

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know, Because You Can’t See What You Can’t See (part 1 of 3)

Lynx Software Technologies2015-07-07T12:11:04+00:00

Threat detection is reaching a negative inflection point. In this blog post we'll present a few bold (and quite disturbing) figures about the current state of affairs of malware and its detection. We'll assert that given the unbearably and unacceptably long time it takes to detect malware (IF at all detected), and the growing cost and complexity of its detection, it's time to admit that current malware detection technologies have more than exhausted themselves and that it's time for new detection paradigms to emerge. Our next blog will focus on these new paradigms and suggest new types of solutions. The perplexity Reading the threat and malware reports frequently published by security vendors and security-research labs leaves the reader perplexed. Not one report resemble the others in terms of defining the main threats and the quantitative analysis of the levels and dynamics of the threats. It seems that each vendor has a "unique angle" on the threat landscape, probably based on its technological solutions and its own security knowledge-base. There doesn't seem to be any agreement about the scope and breadth of the [...]

20 May, 2015

Safety and security critical software. Chalk and cheese? Or peas in a pod?

Lynx Software Technologies2015-05-20T12:02:22+00:00

Safety critical and security critical software have long been regarded as two different genres, with their own standards and their own requirements. In some circumstances, that is entirely reasonable. For example, in most safety critical applications such as a steer-by-wire system in a car, it is imperative that a level of functionality is retained even when things are failing. Conversely, if a hacker is found to be accessing a bank’s databases then the preferred immediate response is likely to completely deny all access. The inconvenience of other bank users can wait if the integrity of the data is at stake. Any system providing an interface to the outside world has the potential to contain security vulnerabilities. In particular, any accessibility via the Internet requires a strategy to deal not only with a few malicious specialists, but with a whole world of hackers. In the field of safety critical embedded software, such security concerns are often perceived to be a separate domain from the core business of functional safety. Yet when security researcher Barnaby Jack used a modified antenna and software in 2011 to wirelessly [...]

14 Apr, 2015

Lynx Software Technologies Safety-Critical RTOS adopted on Russian airliner

Lynx Software Technologies2015-04-14T16:25:24+00:00

SAN JOSE, CA, 14 April 2015– Lynx Software Technologies, Inc., a world leader in the embedded safety and security software market, and its’ Russian distributor RTSoft, today announced that its LynxOS-178 Real Time Operating System is being used in a flight system of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 designed by Ulyanovsk Instrument Manufacturing Design Bureau (UIMDB). LynxOS is the first and only COTS operating system to receive acceptance for reusability from the FAA for DO-178B/C certification, and acceptance for reusability by EASA on this project represents a further milestone. “We have been cooperating very closely with Lynx for many years and have established deep expertise in LynxOS-178 and the certification of products based on LynxOS-178 according to DO-178B/C”, said Alexey Isaev, Chief of ECT software direction, RTSoft. “The FAA’s acceptance of the LynxOS-178 Reusable Software Component was a key factor in the decision by UIMDB to adopt this technology. We are delighted to have contributed to the successful deployment of LynxOS-178 on a very significant commercial airliner.” Sergey Zhelepov, Onboard Software Verification Group Leader for UIMDB, said, “We are always seeking to reduce [...]

25 Feb, 2015

Lynx Software Technologies Announces Security Product Support for New ARM-based IoT Designs

Lynx Software Technologies2015-02-25T10:45:51+00:00

THE LYNXSECURE SEPARATION KERNEL HYPERVISOR AND LYNXOS 7.0 RTOS ARE MOVING TO NEW ARM BASED-PROCESSORS. NUREMBERG, GERMANY, Embedded World – February 25, 2015 – Lynx Software Technologies, Inc., a world leader in real-time security technologies, today announced that both its LynxOS 7.0 RTOS and its LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor are moving to new ARM®-based processors. The development allows the military-grade security offered by these products to be applied to the protection of ARM-based embedded designs addressing IoT markets such as industrial control, factory automation, connected automotive, smart energy, medical and transportation. Gurjot Singh, CEO of Lynx Software Technologies, said, “The next generation of connected embedded systems being designed using ARM-based processors will need to have enhanced security, especially when controlling critical infrastructure.” He continued, “We believe the industry-leading security technology in both our LynxOS 7.0 and LynxSecure products will offer a major leap for ARM-based developers, allowing them to design the most secure connected systems without sacrificing power, performance and functionality.” LynxOS 7.0 is being migrated initially to the ARM Cortex®-A series of processor cores, including processors from Xilinx, TI and Freescale. LynxSecure [...]

18 Feb, 2015

Lynx Software Technologies focuses on secure IoT using secure RTOS and secure hypervisor at Embedded World

Lynx Software Technologies2015-02-18T09:08:34+00:00

LYNXSECURE AND LYNXOS 7 DEMONSTRATED AND PRESENTED FOR IOT DEVELOPERS Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany – February 18th 2015 – Lynx Software Technologies (formerly LynuxWorks) will be focusing on security technologies for protecting IoT Gateways and Secure RTOS technology with demonstrations and conference papers at Embedded World, Nuremberg. According to Lee Cresswell, Sales Director, EMEA, Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. “A secure platform foundation is an essential element of the industrial IoT to ensure that the critical infrastructure of the future is adequately protected. Security is paramount for the next generation of connected embedded systems.” This thinking will be showcased in two demonstrations featured on the Lynx stand (4-446) at Embedded World. The first shows how the LynxSecure Separation Kernel Hypervisor and the Vortex Intelligent Data Sharing Platform from PrismTech can route real-time data from a sensor node securely and reliably via a gateway to the cloud. The second shows how LynxOS 7 can help engineers design multi-layer security into their embedded applications using features like discretionary access controls, audit, roles and capabilities, identification and authentication and cryptography. LynxOS 7 utilizes an industry standard Eclipse [...]

29 Jan, 2015

LynuxWorks Demonstrates Safety-Critical and Secure RTOS Solutions at AFCEA

Lynx Software Technologies2015-01-29T10:30:41+00:00

AFCEA West, SAN DIEGO, CA—January 29, 2013—LynuxWorks™, Inc, a world leader in the embedded software market, will demonstrate at AFCEA real-time operating systems solutions for both safety-critical applications and secure multi-level workstations requiring isolation from malicious computing environments. LynxOS-178 RTOS Designed for Safety-Critical Applications The demonstration of LynxOS-178 RTCA/DO-178 certified RTOS will highlight its capabilities as the most open standards compliant and cost-effective solution for safety-critical certifications. Additional features include the latest development and debug tool suite and advanced ARINC 653 multi-partition analysis capabilities and features. LynxOS-178 addresses system developers' need to meet FAA certification by providing a time, space and resource partitioned commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) operating system that fully satisfies the objectives of the DO-178B/C, level A. LynxOS-178 was designed from the ground-up to support open standards conformance. Supported standards include ARINC 653, full conformance with the IEEE POSIX, as well as support for the FACE standard currently under development. At the present time, a systems integrator or developer wants to integrate components of any other RTOS, or any previously certified DO-178B/C software in multiple hardware environments, each new hardware/software configuration [...]

17 Nov, 2014

Lynx Software Technologies Announces Security Critical RTOS Support for Curtiss-Wright’s VPX6-187 Platform

Lynx Software Technologies2014-11-17T10:10:55+00:00

RUGGEDIZED SINGLE-BOARD COMPUTER NOW OFFER COTS DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT PLATFORM FOR LATEST VERSION OF LYNXOS Lynx Software Technologies’ LynxOS 7 RTOS Supports Curtiss-Wright’s VPX6-187 Platform SAN JOSE, CA – November 17, 2014 – Lynx Software Technologies, Inc., a world leader in the embedded safety and security software market, today announced the availability of its board support package (BSP) for the Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions VPX6-187 rugged single board computer (SBC). The new BSP is a part of LynxOS 7, the latest release of the security critical RTOS (real-time operating system) from Lynx Software Technologies. The BSP brings the new LynxOS 7 security oriented RTOS to Curtiss-Wright’s VPX6-187 board, adding support for the Freescale® Power® Architecture QorIQ P4040/4080 System On a Chip multi-core processor. LynxOS 7 is the first commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) real-time operating system to provide open APIs to achieve medium-assurance security per the general purpose operating-system protection profile (GPOSPP). LynxOS 7 provides a layered approach to security adding functionality such as roles, capabilities, access controls, quotas, residual information protection, and self-test allowing applications to immediately design security into their products. LynxOS is already [...]

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