Traditional network and endpoint protection mechanisms are struggling today to protect our corporate IT infrastructure and computers. Adding the projected billions of nodes that will constitute the Internet of Things exacerbate the problem dramatically. By John Blevins, Director of Product Marketing, LynuxWorks.

LynuxWorks introduces its next generation of their most popular real-time operating system, LynxOS 7.0, enabling embedded developers to add security functionality to their connected devices. The open standards-based LynxOS has been powering millions of embedded devices for the last 25 years across all industries and now adds significant new features to help meet the needs of the billions of next- generation connected devices.

In conjunction with the launch of the 4th Generation Intel Core processor family (formerly codenamed “Haswell”), LynuxWorks announced support of the new Intel Core i7 and i5 processor families for all three of it’s major product lines, including LynxOS, LynxOS-178 and LynxSecure.

LynuxWorks today announced that they are adding new security features to the LynxSecure embedded hypervisor to offer real-time detection, alert and protection against new cyber threats - including zero-day rootkits and bootkits.

LynuxWorks today announced that they will be demonstrating the industry’s first technology capable of real-time detection, alert and protection against zero-day rootkits and bootkits. Rootkits are the most sophisticated and lethal type of malware--stealthy and extremely potent.

LynuxWorks has announced that they have ported the TransLattice Application Platform 2.0 onto the latest version of the LynxSecure separation kernel and hypervisor. This combination of the LynuxWorks highly-secure virtualization solution and the TransLattice distributed computing platform, offers new levels of security, availability, scalability and resilience for migration of data and applications to the cloud.

LynuxWorks commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) board and system-level products for military applications, team to demonstrate a new rugged, high-performance multilevel secure solution at MILCOM 2011. The companies will showcase LynuxWorks’ LynxSecure secure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor running on Themis’ CoolShell blade servers.