Wind River Secures Linux

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced availability of and security certification for Wind River Linux Secure, the first commercial embedded Linux platform to achieve Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+) certification by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) using the General Purpose Operating System Protection Profile (GP-OSPP).

Wind River Linux Secure provides organizations facing strict security and cryptography certification requirements, such as EAL4+ and FIPS 140-2, with a secure, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded Linux solution. This solution allows organizations to build secure platforms for military communications, such as software-defined radios, command/control ground stations, and combat systems, as well as Linux-based secure mobile operating systems. As security mandates and tighter regulations expand into broader market segments, there is also an increasing need for security-certified embedded Linux platforms in networking infrastructure, industrial, energy and medical systems, which Wind River Linux Secure is designed to meet.

"Wind River is filling a growing critical need in the markets where embedded Linux with security is becoming a requirement and, equally important, where our customers want to create competitive security-based differentiation in their product offerings," said Paul Anderson, vice president of marketing and strategy for Linux products at Wind River. "Now organizations can meet their security needs with an open architecture software platform designed to comply with national security criteria, based upon a mature and widely-used Linux distribution."

Wind River Systems Inc.