SANTA BARBARA, CA, Mar 11, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Green Hills Software, the largest independent supplier of embedded
and mobile virtualization solutions, today announced a major new
release of its INTEGRITY(R) Multivisor(TM) for Trusted Mobile
Devices. For the first time, enterprise and government mobile device
users and administrators can take advantage of off-the-shelf mobile
phones and tablets for both personal and business use, with both
parties having complete confidence in security and privacy. Shipping
since 2003, INTEGRITY Multivisor is the only virtualization solution
built upon security certified separation kernel technology that
provides highly assured isolation between personas while also
providing a native open standard execution environment for
security-critical tasks.
"Green Hills Software brings its 30+ years successful track record
for deploying trusted and certified software solutions for
mission-critical electronics to the mobile market," commented Chris
Rommel, vice president of M2M & Embedded Technology at VDC. "This
latest release of INTEGRITY Multivisor firmly places the company at
the forefront of mobile virtualization and secure dual-persona
technology."
Key capabilities of Multivisor v4 for Mobile include:
-- Hardware accelerated 3D graphics concurrently shared between all
Android personas
-- Virtual Self-Encrypting Drive (vSED) for hypervisor-protected user
authentication and data-at-rest protection
-- VPN for hypervisor-protected data-in-transit protection
-- Green Hills Software's FIPS 140-2 and NSA Suite B cryptographic
library
-- Hardware enabled virtualization using ARM Virtualization Extensions
(ARM VE)
-- Multicore SMP support
-- Complete suite of virtualized and securely shared I/O, including
Bluetooth, USB, cellular voice and data, audio, hardware-accelerated
graphics, touch screen/buttons, Wi-Fi, sensors, and GPS
-- Secure boot
-- Virtualization supports the latest Android Jelly Bean versions
Multivisor Security
In addition to the isolation provided by its
separation kernel, built-in security components of INTEGRITY
Multivisor render common attacks impossible, including stealing
encryption keys, key logging, and screen scraping. Yet, the security
capabilities execute without the knowledge of the virtualized Android
guest operating systems and without impacting user experience.
ARM VE
Historically, heavy guest kernel paravirtualization was
required to achieve acceptable virtualization performance in mobile
devices. These modifications are not only intrusive to the OEM
development process, but they also slow time-to-market and result in
a less maintainable and error-prone solution. ARM Architecture
Virtualization Extension (ARM VE) is a world-class implementation for
virtualization acceleration and hypervisor management. INTEGRITY
Multivisor support for ARM VE was first demonstrated in commercial
devices at the 2013 CES and is based upon Green Hills Software's
extensive experience in virtualization hardware that has been applied
to the Intel (2005) and Power Architectures (2008).
Time-to-Market
Industry observers acknowledge that Type 1 hypervisors like the
INTEGRITY Multivisor possess the necessary software foundation to
achieve a far higher level of robustness and security than is
possible with Type 2 hypervisors and OS virtualization/containers.
However, because the Type 1 hypervisor runs on bare metal, it must be
ported. INTEGRITY Multivisor for Trusted Mobile Devices eliminates
the traditional development time and cost tradeoff of the Type 1
approach because it leverages the INTEGRITY separation kernel that is
already widely, rapidly, and continuously ported across processors as
a real-time kernel for embedded systems. In addition, the INTEGRITY
Multivisor for Trusted Mobile Devices v4 employs an I/O management
infrastructure for secure sharing of the full suite of mobile and
automotive device peripherals without requiring special assistance
from device manufacturers. INTEGRITY Multivisor can be ported to a
new mobile device using a supported chipset and Android release in
weeks.
"As has already transpired in the cloud, the hypervisor is quickly
supplanting the operating system as the software foundation for
sophisticated consumer electronics," commented David Kleidermacher,
chief technology officer, Green Hills Software. "INTEGRITY Multivisor
is the ideal hypervisor for mobile, enabling the vision of secure,
dual-mode personal/business use and reduced total cost of ownership
that is simply impossible with a mobile OS by itself."
About INTEGRITY Multivisor
INTEGRITY Multivisor is a member of the
family of INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization (ISV) solutions. Multivisor
consists of the certified INTEGRITY real-time microkernel technology
coupled with facilities to execute one or more "guest" operating
systems. INTEGRITY Multivisor also provides a native, open
standards-based environment for critical applications, such as
security functionality and fast-boot real-time applications.
INTEGRITY Multivisor offers several approaches to virtualization in
ARM-powered devices, including paravirtualization, and full
virtualization with or without hardware hypervisor acceleration. As
the digital world grows in complexity, no single operating system
suffices. The hypervisor provides the right level of abstraction --
the virtual machine -- for flexibility, scalability, and portability,
enabling elegant yet practical solutions to previously intractable
computing problems.
Availability
INTEGRITY Multivisor for Trusted
Mobile Devices has been shipping in commercial smartphones and
tablets since 2012. Version 4 is available today.
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is
the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In
2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only
operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information
Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA and NIST) to EAL 6+, High
Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any
software product. Our open architecture integrated development
solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and
high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical,
industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that
demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is
headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the
United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.
Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, INTEGRITY and Multivisor are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, in the
U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
Contact:
Green Hills Software
Barbel French
805-965-6044
bfrench@ghs.com
SOURCE: Green Hills Software
mailto:bfrench@ghs.com
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