Posted by Courtney E. HowardWASHINGTON, 19 Aug. 2011. Green Hills Software’s Integrity Security Services (ISS) business unit affirms its investment in and commitment to the security of unmanned vehicles, missions, payloads, and control systems with the introduction of its Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Open Platform. The platform, at the core of which lies the company’s Integrity-178B real-time operating system (RTOS), is designed to provide a secure, reliable, and safe software foundation for autonomous vehicle and universal control segment (UCS) developers to host unmanned autonomous systems applications.
Green Hills Software’s Integrity-178B simultaneously meets the software safety requirements of RTCA/DO-178B Level A for safety and reliability, and the information assurance requirements of the U.S. Government’s EAL6+ Separation Kernel Protection Profile (SKPP) for absolute security, says a company spokesperson.
“Our ISS Autonomous Vehicle Open Platform is the first end-to-end open platform in the embedded industry that includes an EAL6+-certified RTOS and a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)-validated Embedded Cryptographic Toolkit,” says Dan O’Dowd, chief executive officer and founder of Green Hills Software. “Our ISS AV Open Platform provides a reliable foundation to all Autonomous Vehicle and UCS developers reducing cost and time-to-market without compromising or sidestepping the demanding high-assurance software requirements that are expected from an operating system or cryptographic toolkit.”
The Integrity Security Services AV Open Platform includes the following components:
Integrity-178B Real-time Operating System(s)
ISS UCS Open Platform
ISS proprietary FIPS-validated Embedded Cryptographic Toolkit
MULTI Integrated Development Environment
ISS µSSL, µSSH, µVPN (IPSec/IKEv2), and µLoad Secure Boot Toolkits (Optional)
TCP Networking Stack, web server, Layer 3 IP Routing, USB and Management Stacks (Optional)
ISS Anti-Tamper Platform (Optional)
The AV Open Platform is designed to be small, scalable, and SKPP/EAL6+-compliant (Integrity-178B multi-level secure operating system option). Support is also available for Windows, Linux, Integrity and other general-purpose operating systems on ARM, Intel, Power Architecture, MIPS, and other processor architectures.
“Our customers are requesting high-assurance security solutions,” O’Dowd adds. “With the Integrity Security Services Platforms and our EAL6+-certified Integrity-178B operating system, we can secure all layers of all Autonomous Vehicles.”