First system for effectively analysing new malware threats when away from the corporate network London, UK—April 17, 2012—Secure virtualization provided by LynuxWorks™' LynxSecure embedded hypervisor and separation kernel powers a new portable malware-analysis system by ValidEdge—the MISbook. The MISbook, a full malware-analysis system on a laptop computer, will be formally unveiled at Infosec, London, April 24-26 on Stand G78. The booth will also feature a live demonstration of LynxSecure, a defence-grade hypervisor from LynuxWorks, the parent company of ValidEdge. Visitors are invited to bring samples of malware along to the booth for analysis. The ValidEdge MISbook 2300, to be launched at Infosec, allows malware researchers and incident-response teams to quickly analyse any new and unknown malware and identify its threat rating and classification, even when away from the network. Housed on a secure laptop, the unique MISbook utilises its underlying secure virtualisation platform to offer a standard Linux® or Microsoft® Windows® partition that behaves like a normal laptop. Two other hidden secure partitions offer a management interface to submit and manage malware samples and access analysis results in one secure partition, and [...]

Fritz Technologies, LynuxWorks and TransLattice bring technology and expertise together to produce S.E.C.U.R.E. platform solution DENVER, CO, DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, April 2, 2012—Three companies known for their innovation in producing solutions for government and DoD applications, LynuxWorks™, Inc., TransLattice and Fritz Technologies Corporation, today announced a collaboration of their technologies and expertise to provide a new platform for building cloud deployments in sensitive environments. The resulting S.E.C.U.R.E. (Secure, Enterprise, Cross-Domain, Unified, Resilient Environment) platform solution creates the ideal environment for situations requiring secure hosting of applications, geographic redundancy of applications and data, and secure cross-domain transfer of information. Technology demonstrations at DoDIIS will be available in both the LynuxWorks (#752) and TransLattice booths (#460). A first-generation secure server-based separation kernel (SepKer) solution was delivered by Fritz Technologies, working with the LynxSecure 4.0 separation kernel from LynuxWorks. Fritz Technologies successfully demonstrated that SepKer technology can incorporate trusted boot via the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and enhanced administrative tooling required to support the hosting of multiple domains and application missions whether in a data center, shipboard, airborne or terrestrial deployment. To add resiliency and [...]

New standard ensures a common operating environment for military avionics computer systems platforms SAN JOSÉ—March 19, 2012—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced its membership in the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium, managed by The Open Group, to provide a common airborne computing environment for the Navy and other military branches. The FACE Consortium is an industry-government collaboration consisting of 39 members, including the U.S. Navy Air Combat Electronics Program Office, the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research and Engineering Center, and several leading industry defense contractors and avionics suppliers. The new FACE Technical Standard defines a reference architecture for creating a common operating environment to support applications across multiple Department of Defense avionics systems. The standard is designed to enhance the U.S. military aviation community's ability to address issues of limited software reuse and accelerate and enhance warfighter capabilities, as well as enabling the community to take advantage of new technologies more rapidly and affordably. According to John Blevins, the director of product marketing at LynuxWorks, "The company has a long history of providing proven, [...]

Ruggedized single-board computer now offers COTS development and deployment platform for latest version of LynxOS-178 RTOS SAN JOSÉ, Design West/ESC—March 28, 2012—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded safety and security software market, today announced the availability of its board support package (BSP) and corresponding DO-178B/C level C artifacts for the Curtiss-Wright SVME/DMV-183 rugged single-board computer. The new BSP is a part of LynxOS-178 2.2.2, the latest release of the safety-critical RTOS (real-time operating system) from LynuxWorks. The BSP brings this FAA Level A certifiable RTOS to the Curtiss-Wright SMVE/DMV-183 board and adds support for both single and dual Freescale MPC7447A/7448 PowerPC (Power Architecture) processors with AltiVec technology. LynxOS-178 RTOS is the first and only commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) operating system to receive Reusable Software Component (RSC) acceptance from the FAA for DO-178B/C certification. RSC certification acknowledges a speedier, smoother and more reliable development path for system integrators. The ruggedized Curtiss-Wright SVME-DMV-183 can support up to 2 GB of DDR SDRAM and represents a significant advancement in functionality and performance for rugged single-board-computers. With the release of the BSP comes the addition of [...]

SAN JOSÉ—March 12, 2012—LynuxWorks™, Inc., the first and only embedded operating system vendor to receive Advisory Circular AC 20-148 approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for reusable software components (RSC), has received its second RSC approval for the LynxOS-178 product family. Today, with RSC approval, the LynxOS-178 Version 2.2.2 RTOS (real-time operating system) can be more extensively used by avionics systems integrators and embedded developers for the operating system portion of the safety-critical software code and supporting DO-178B/C artifacts for reuse in other system designs with other software components without the need for full recertification. "More than ever, software component use in safety-critical software for embedded military applications or avionics flight systems is critical," said Stephen Balacco, director, Embedded Software and Tools Practice, VDC Research Group, Inc. "With RSC approval, the software components identified as reusable are already approved by the FAA." The OS provider chooses software components that are target hardware-independent, such as the kernel and libraries, which can constitute as much as 65% of the code. From that perspective, RSC approval provides system integrators and developers a tremendous head [...]

First demonstration of SINA Multilevel Workstation using LynxSecure 5.0 shown at RSA 2012 SAN FRANCISCO and NUREMBERG, GERMANY—February 28, 2012—RSA and Embedded World Conferences—LynuxWorks™, Inc. a world leader in the secure virtualization market, and German IT security specialist secunet Security Networks AG today announced that they have ported the Secure Inter-Network Architecture (SINA) Multilevel Workstation on to the latest version of the LynxSecure separation kernel and hypervisor. The two companies have also entered into a collaborative agreement to develop, sell and market this combined product to organizations requiring the highest levels of security on a worldwide basis. This product can be used by government agencies requiring secure separation of multiple networks on a single workstation, and any Enterprise organizations with highly sensitive information that needs to be protected against malicious threats. First demonstration of the product can be seen in the LynuxWorks booth #332 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA, from February 27-March 1. "We have been closely working with LynuxWorks on migrating our SINA workstation concept to the LynxSecure high security platform," said Kai Martius, head of secunet's High [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA, AFCEA West—January 25, 2012—LynuxWorks™, Inc. announced that the Mission Systems and Sensors Division (MS2) of Lockheed Martin in Owego, NY, has selected the LynxOS® real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for use in conjunction with the United Kingdom (UK) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). The UK's AWACS aircraft were designed to provide an airborne early-warning capability by tracking aircraft at extended ranges. The AWACS has become invaluable for airborne command and control and their ability to relay vital information to commanders on the ground. According to Robert Day, VP of Marketing at LynuxWorks, "In recent years, LynuxWorks software has been selected for a growing list of current and next-generation aircraft. This is one more example of LynxOS' strength to meet demanding security and mission-critical software requirements." The result of 21 years of RTOS experience, only LynxOS combines hard real-time embedded technology with broad conformance to open and de facto standards like Linux®, POSIX® and UNIX®. All operating system components within LynxOS are designed for absolute determinism—hard real-time performance. This means that they absolutely must [...]