The embedded world is ‘changing’ as the trend for connectivity brings the Internet of everything to an ever increasing number of devices. This is having a knock on effect on security as embedded devices grow ever more vulnerable to cyber threats, which is particularly serious in critical applications such as military and defence. However by advancing security at the embedded design stage, can offer much greater levels of protection. Lee Cresswell, EMEA Sales Director at LynuxWorks advises: “by adding a security layer between the OS and the hardware, helps protect against new advanced persistent threats and by adding more security features to the RTOS can help protect real-time devices”. This offers more efficient and effective communication with the net.
To offer increased security in embedded devices, GE Intelligent Platforms has integrated the LynxOS 7.0 from LynuxWorks on to its 3U OpenVPX SBC312 and SBC324 rugged single board computers. This is also available on GE’s 6U VME EP2A single board computer.
This architecture includes a new military grade security package which conforms to the GPOSPP (General Purpose Operating System Protection Profile.
These single board computers are said to feature existing hardware-based security features including ‘trusted boot’ which allows users to verify that the software code being used is the sanctioned code, and has not been sabotaged or tampered with.
The company advises its SBC312 is based on Freescale’s QorIQ P4080 technology, providing up to eight processing cores within the power envelope of previous dual core boards.
Whilst its SBC324 features a high performance, highly integrated Core i7 processor platform from Intel.
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