PANELISTS

Joe Wlad, director of product marketing at LynuxWorks, has more than 21 years of safety-critical systems design, development, test and evaluation experience at companies such as Intermetrics, Inc., McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Company and United Airlines. Formerly a senior product and project manager at Wind River Systems, Wlad is a FAA DER for Systems and Equipment and Software and has co-authored three patents on Global Positioning System integrity functions.

Jan Van Bruaene, senior applications engineer at RTI, has over ten years experience in software engineering with expertise in designing distributed systems, middleware, network protocols and I/O devices. Prior to RTI, Jan was a staff engineer with Sun Microsystems, where he worked with Independent Software Vendors, making their software run on Solaris systems. Jan also worked at VLSI Technology in the network products group on networking ASICs and embedded systems. Jan holds a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering from KIHK, Geel, Belgium.

This webinar took place on Wednesday, September 12, 2007.

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Webinar overview

Security is critical in high-threat environments such as defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure systems. Unfortunately, commercial security products and approaches are not suitable for these applications because they don't allow for mixed security levels or real-time communications.

This webinar will provide an overview of two technologies that address medium- and high-assurance applications, respectively. LynuxWorks' LynxSecure Separation Kernel is a Multiple Independent Levels of Security/Safety (MILS)-compliant real-time operating system targeted at high-assurance applications. MILS ensures that tasks running at different security levels are safe from cross-level information leakage. RTI Data Distribution Service provides secure application-to-application messaging in distributed computing environments, with compliance to the Object Management Group's DDS standard targeting medium-assurance environments.

The MILS architecture fosters a thriving "ecosystem" of high-assurance commercial components and systems. MILS is an architectural approach backed by government, industry and academic leaders. MILS supports isolation between software running at differing security levels on a single processor.

The LynxSecure Separation Kernel provides users with a MILS Virtual Machine Monitor that supports heterogeneous guest operating systems, like LynxOS, Linux and (soon) Windows executing on a single hardware platform. Thus, high-performance embedded and desktop software can be combined onto a single hardware platform while enforcing strict application security requirements. LynxSecure is suitable as a foundational component for flexible and modular security- and safety-critical systems in applications ranging from embedded systems to data centers.

RTI is the leader in middleware that complies with the Object Management Group's (OMG's) Data Distribution Service (DDS) for Real-Time Systems standard. The DDS standard's real-time publish-subscribe communication model is now prevalent in all the armed forces. DDS middleware allows distributed peer applications to share data and events efficiently without concern for the actual physical location or architecture of each peer node.

Through a pluggable transport architecture, RTI Data Distribution Service (formerly NDDS) provides DDS communications over the strong cryptographic Transport Layer Security (TLS) communication protocol. TLS allows DDS applications to communicate free from eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery.

Secure operation and communication in a distributed system requires both a secure operating system and a secure protocol. RTI middleware, combined with the LynxSecure Separation Kernel, enables secure distributed application development.