Green Hills Software Launches INTEGRITY Security Services Business Unit

The INTEGRITY Security Services Toolkits, provided by ISS, are based on the Green Hills proprietary Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliant Cryptographic Toolkit. The ISS Cryptographic Toolkit meets the latest government standards and also provides the underlying FIPS-compliant cryptographic primitives for use with a comprehensive complement of security protocols. The toolkits are designed to be small, scalable and certifiable by the US Government. Support is available for Windows®, Linux™, VxWorks®, INTEGRITY, INTEGRITY®-178B and general-purpose operating systems on ARM®, Intel®, Power Architecture®, MIPS® and other processor architectures.
Starting with the security toolkits and leveraging all of Green Hills Software’s technology, the ISS business unit will deliver complete end-to-end security solutions for devices in all current and emerging markets.
With industry expectations of some 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, the majority will be embedded devices. Every new connected device will be identified with a unique IP address that becomes a target to be spoofed and attacked. Embedded devices in the automotive, aerospace and defence, industrial control, medical device, mobility, consumer electronics and networking markets will all be connected in some way. This connectivity explosion mandates a focus on securing components, devices, software, networks and data from the smallest embedded component to the largest data centre throughout the lifecycle of each embedded device. Embedded operating systems control these ubiquitous computers. The INTEGRITY and INTEGRITY-178B operating systems will be offered with an ISS toolkit and will have reliable and authenticated security software around it to ensure all embedded devices powered by ISS Security Toolkits are secure.
The ISS solutions will focus on addressing:
Authentication - the process of ensuring that users, devices and software on a network are correctly identified.

Authorization - grants users and devices the right to access resources and perform specified actions.

Network Access Control - mechanisms that limit access to the network to authenticated and authorized devices, software and users.

Confidentiality - using ciphers to transform data to make it unreadable to anyone except those authorized and authenticated to view the data.

Integrity - checking mechanisms are designed to detect unauthorized changes to transmitted data through the lifecycle of a device, software and data.

Remote Management - a method to monitor, update and manage remotely manufactured and fielded devices.


“Our Customers are requesting high assurance security solutions as one of their top priorities,” said Dan O’Dowd, chief executive officer and founder of Green Hills Software. “With INTEGRITY Security Services solutions and our multi-level secure INTEGRITY-178B EAL6+ certified operating system technology we will be able to secure all layers of all embedded devices.”