Wind River updates platform for securing critical infrastructure

MILCOM 2013, SAN DIEGO, USA: Wind River announced updates to its platform for securing critical infrastructure. Part of the Wind River product portfolio for trusted systems, the latest versions of Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform include features for embedded systems on multi-core processors and a security evaluation evidence package for unicore-based systems that may undergo a high assurance, system-level security evaluation.

Built on a secure separation kernel that is compliant to the "U.S. Government Protection Profile for Separation Kernels in Environments Requiring High Robustness," version 1.03 (SKPP), VxWorks MILS Platform provides an operating runtime environment designed for systems having high security, high assurance, and high performance requirements.

It significantly reduces costs by consolidating applications with mixed domains or security levels on a single hardware platform. VxWorks MILS Platform provides security by strictly enforcing time and space resource allocation, information flow control, and fault isolation so that the system will conform to the security policies as defined by its security architects and system integrators.

The VxWorks MILS Platform is capable of supporting multi-core processors for high performance and high scalability. In addition, for unicore-based security-critical systems that need to undergo a system-level security evaluation toward gaining an authorization to operation (ATO) or an accreditation, the platform offers a security evaluation evidence package based on the Common Criteria, the SKPP, and RTCA DO-178C (EUROCAE ED-12C) Design Assurance Level A.