Green Hills Software Integrity RTOS With Imation USB Ironkey

Green Hills Software, Inc. and Imation Corp. announced that Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS can support file access on Imation’s IronKey encrypted USB storage platform.

The platform-independent real-time OS, is built upon a partitioning architecture to provide embedded systems that deliver real-time performance across applications, including avionics, automotive, financial and military.

The joint solution provides interoperable data-at-rest protection for INTEGRITY applications and encrypted file transfer between Windows, Linux and INTEGRITY systems on IronKey Basic S250 and D250 USB drives. These capabilities are for storing confidential or regulated information in defense and financial applications.

The IronKey portfolio of encrypted USB drives is used in government, military and enterprise environments to protect data and help meet regulatory requirements. Drives are FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated and feature AES 256-bit hardware encryption. Hardware-level key management, powered by the cryptochip, keeps encryption management on the device and does not export AES encryption keys to the host PC, protecting against cold-boot and malware attacks.

The OS that has been deployed in end-customer products where reliability are paramount. According to the market analyst, the OS has demonstrated high growth in the real-time OS market share over the past decade. The success of the is due to its technological design, incorporating memory protection, resource availability, remote management, and hard real-time deterministic response. The technology is certified to safety standards, including IEC 61508 (SIL 3) and EN 50128 CENELEC (SWSIL 4), in addition to the Highest Common Criteria (IEC 15408) security level achieved for any commercial operation system – EAL 6+, High Robustness.

“Embedded device manufacturers have asked us for long-term, tested and reliable high security solutions for their data interoperability needs. Imation’s IronKey solutions together with Green Hills Software’s secure and reliable OSs provide embedded designers a total solution with high capacity and high security processing,” said Tim Reed, VP, advanced products group, Green Hills .

“Green Hills Software is well known for their global market leadership in the most demanding embedded applications. Imation shares Green Hills Software’s focus on the highest levels of reliability, availability and security,” said Erik Hutslar, executive director of product management, Imation IronKey solutions. “This solution effectively addresses the storage and secure access challenges faced by the biggest government and financial customers today.”

Compatibility with IronKey drives is available in INTEGRITY RTOS.