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European Utility Week 2013: Critical Infrastructure Security

European Utility Week 2013: Critical Infrastructure Security

By AJ Shipley Wind River, Intel, and McAfee recently wrapped up a trip to European Utility Week 2013 in Amsterdam.  Security was a consistent theme across the convention sessions and around the exhibition floor; it’s a topic that everyone knows is incredibly important, but is not entirely sure how to properly address. What I find most interesting when I talk…
Fighting Crime with SE Android

Fighting Crime with SE Android

By Paul Parkinson Last week, I read a BBC News story (Met Police technology 'ineffective and outdated') about how the Metropolitan Police force in London, UK was being hampered in its fight against crime by out of date technologies. The news story discussed the London Assembly report (PDF) which highlighted the fact that most police officers had smart phones and tablets which they…
The Future of the RTOS is Driving the Internet of Things

The Future of the RTOS is Driving the Internet of Things

By Bill Graham Real-time operating systems (RTOS) are having to become increasingly sophisticated – they must satisfy performance demands, offer hard real-time response and handle memory constraints, but increasingly they also need to deliver capabilities demanded by the new, highly connected, security conscious, remotely managed world of machine to machine (M2M) networks and the Internet of Things (IoT). Intelligent devices…
A Whole New ‘Internet of Things’ World

A Whole New ‘Internet of Things’ World

By Jens Wiegand The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming not only businesses, but also our lives. The ability of intelligent devices to perceive and respond to the environment around them makes them incredibly valuable for complex decision-making in a broad range of industries. The growth potential is explosive: billions of units are generating more than $1 trillion in revenue…
June 28, 2013
Operating System Hardening Techniques and Security Strategies

Operating System Hardening Techniques and Security Strategies

By AJ Shipley In my last blog post, I focused on securing the device at a high level, and in this post, I’d like to dive a bit deeper into the technical aspects of device security; specifically, regarding defense against “run time,” or operational vulnerabilities, that a system is exposed to after it has booted up. A defense in depth…
June 19, 2013

Reliability….the key constant in network transformation

By Jessica Schieve  Wind River recently conducted a webinar on the topic of network transformation and the growing trend around building greater intelligence.   The webinar discussed the results of a survey we commissioned through Light Reading exploring the different facets of network intelligence: packet acceleration, content inspection, flow analysis and traffic shaping, and network virtualization.  It was one of our…
June 7, 2013

Northrop Grumman X-47B UCAS-D Running on Wind River VxWorks Catapults from Aircraft Carrier

By Chip Downing     Today, the Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned aircraft achieved a successful catapult launch from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush carrier, the first of its kind in aviation history.  This marks a very proud day for Wind River knowing that our VxWorks real-time operating system is a key technology for this aircraft, developed as part of…
May 14, 2013

Securing Critical Infrastructure with MILS

By Paul Chen On February 12, the White House released the Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21), Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. The DHS website describes PPD-21 as “advancing a national policy to strengthen and maintain secure, functioning, and resilient critical infrastructure.” Sixteen different critical infrastructure sectors are identified, including: Chemical, Communications, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare and Public Health, Food and…
April 23, 2013

Let’s Talk About Securing the Device

By AJ Shipley In my previous blog post, I touched on the key variables influencing how we approach device security.  In this blog post, I’ll focus the discussion on securing the device.  Before I do, I want to touch briefly on what was a key take away for me from last month’s RSA conference in San Francisco.  This year, the…
March 19, 2013

The CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors: What it means for embedded developers

By Bill Graham The CWE/Sans Top 25 is fairly well known among security experts but might be overlooked by embedded developers since the list covers all types of systems and programming languages. Developers are fully aware of the quality impacts of many of these errors however they may be less knowledgeable of the security implications. The classic example is the buffer…
March 5, 2013
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