Green Hills to show first EAL6+ certified operating system - Embedded World, Nuremberg – Hall 10 Stand 319

Publication date on this website: Monday, January 12, 2009
Company: Green Hills Software Ltd
Category: Press Releases : Industry News (Market)

Summary:
INTEGRITY demonstrations will include high security, industrial and avionics applications

Full Text:
At Embedded World, Green Hills Software will be showcasing its INTEGRITY real-time operating system for applications that require high levels of security, safety and/or reliability. The exhibition will host the first European public demonstration of the EAL6+ certified INTEGRITY®-178B OS, which is the world´s first and only operating system certified to protect classified information against sophisticated hackers. In addition to the high security focus, the company will also be demonstrating INTEGRITY in industrial, avionics and other applications where high reliability is essential.

The INTEGRITY®-178B operating system has been certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), a U.S. government initiative operated by the National Security Agency (NSA), to Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 6+, High Robustness. This certification is the first of its kind, the highest Common Criteria security level ever achieved for an operating system. Only an EAL6+ High Robustness operating system is certified to protect classified information and other high value resources at risk of attack from hostile and well-funded attackers. No other operating system has even begun the stringent EAL6+ NIAP/NSA certification process (http://www.niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/in_evaluation lists products that have begun a certification process).

The INTEGRITY operating system´s pedigree also includes certification and compliance with other demanding government and industry software reliability standards. Among these are RTCA/DO-178B Level A, the highest level of avionics safety certification granted by the US Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency; FDA Class III, the most life critical medical devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration; and IEC 61508 SIL 3, the highest level industrial safety certification granted to an operating system by TÜV. INTEGRITY is the only operating system to have achieved more than one of these certifications.

About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS) for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and velOSity™ real-time operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel, IPv6-ready TCP/IP networking stacks, GateD® Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing, compilers, MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated development environments, DoubleCheck™ integrated static analyzer and TimeMachine™ tool suite offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded and high-reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

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Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, velOSity, µ-velOSity, AdaMULTI, DoubleCheck and TimeMachine, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Contact:
Editorial contact information:
Christopher Smith, Vice President of Marketing, Green Hills Software, Inc.
Tel: +44 (0)2380 649660
Fax: +44 (0)2380 649661
E-mail: chriss@ghs.com

Sales enquiries to:
France: sales-fr@ghs.com
Tel: +33 (0) 1 43 14 37 00

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Tel: +49 (0) 721 98 62 580

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Tel: +972 (0) 9 958 4060

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Tel: +44 (0) 1962 829820

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Tel: +46 (0) 46 2113370

The Netherlands: sales-nl@ghs.com
Tel: +31 (0) 33 461 3363

United Kingdom: sales-uk@ghs.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1844 267 950

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