Addressing secure multi-tenancy embedded system design at ERTS

Mark Pitchford, Technical Manager, EMEA at Lynx will deliver a paper entitled, Applying MILS principles to design connected embedded devices supporting the cloud, multi-tenancy and App Stores. The paper points out that the benefits of the IoT are unlikely to be realised unless the connected embedded devices are capable of supporting the multi-tenanted architectures that are common in enterprise IT. It looks at how IoT devices can be provided with secure separation between tenants ensuring that a malfunction or even attack on one cannot affect the operation of safety critical functions. Mark Pitchford uses the design of a connected car as an example of an IoT gateway device with many demands on its systems infrastructure.

On the show floor at ERTS, ISIT and Lynx will be demonstrating the capability of LynxSecure to deliver secure separation within the resource constraints of embedded systems especially gateways. The LynxSecure hypervisor brings unique protection characteristics to intelligent devices, gateways and cloud infrastructure within a kernel 200 times smaller than the Linux kernel. It combines military-grade security with hard real-time scheduling, offering unique security differentiation against traditional virtualisation solutions.

Lynx appointed ISIT as its French distributor in October 2014. ISIT offers customers a complete package to support their safety critical and secure software development programs, from processor selection, through the selection of a communication solution, the operating system and separation kernel to the development of their application.