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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Secure OS Gets Highest NSA Rating, Goes Commercial
Unlike existing commercial OSes, Integrity OS is designed and certified to defend against sophisticated attacks. After receiving the highest security rating by a National Security Agency (NSA)-run certification program, Green Hills Software has announced that its Integrity-178B operating system was certified as EAL6+ and that the company had spun off a subsidiary to market the OS to the private sector as well as government agencies.
This means that the OS was designed and certified to defend against well-funded and sophisticated attackers,” says David Chandler, CEO of Integrity Global Security, the new Green Hills subsidiary.
Integrity-178 B meets the rigorous Common Criteria Separation Kernel Protection Profile (SKPP) standard, which guarantees that malicious code can’t corrupt or harm any other application running on the system.
“I’m delighted that they have accomplished this,” said Stephen Hanna, co-chair of the Trusted Computing group and distinguished engineer with Juniper Networks, during his keynote at the CSI 2008 conference in National Harbor, Md., Tuesday.
http://www.darkreading.com/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100421