Green Hills updates platform for trusted tablets and smartphones

Meets Government Security and Enterprise Manageability Requirements on the Latest Devices

Green Hills Software has updated its Platform for Trusted Mobile Devices and mobile hypervisor to allow the latest tablets and smartphones to meet stringent IT management and government security requirements.
Unlike enterprise PCs that are traditionally IT-owned and managed, handheld devices are traditionally privately owned and subject to deep personal preference and customization. Green Hills has worked with device OEMs, integrators, and service providers to ensure that their mobile offerings can be used to access sensitive government information and networks while making no sacrifices in the availability, privacy, and performance relating to the personal use of multimedia, social, and Internet apps. High robustness isolation between the personal persona and the IT-managed persona is the only way to meet these disparate requirements.
These personas are implemented as virtual machines under the strict control of the INTEGRITY Multivisor and Green Hills has been working with leading mobile system-on-chip (SoC) processor suppliers and device manufacturers to optimize the hypervisor technology and ensure that it is seamlessly incorporated into the device manufacturing process.

The updated Platform consists of integrated components and elements from third parties, including:

• INTEGRITY Multivisor: mobile microkernel Type-1 hypervisor built on the world’s only Common Criteria EAL6+, High Robustness certified microkernel technology
• Multivisor Support Packages (MSPs) for tablets based on the latest shipping mobile single and multicore SoCs, including TI OMAP4 and Freescale i.MX53
• Layered Suite B and FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptographic services, including data storage encryption and secure wireless communications, implemented in software or using hardware accelerators and cryptographic elements
• Integrated Mobile Device Management (MDM) technology that turns the handheld into a first-class managed device in the enterprise network
• Expert porting and security services to meet carrier, integrator, and end-user specific requirements
• New I/O virtualization technologies to enable the efficient yet compartmentalized sharing of multimedia and communications peripherals across personas
• Support for the latest versions of Android and other popular mobile operating systems

“Freescale’s i.MX processors are playing a major role in the proliferation of new, highly compelling product categories that deliver rich multimedia content to consumers around the globe,” said Bernd Lienhard, vice president and general manager, Multimedia Applications Division at Freescale Semiconductor. “We are pleased to work closely with Green Hills Software to help evolving, consumer-oriented handheld platforms meet stringent management and security requirements for government and enterprise users. Green Hills Software’s advanced INTEGRITY Multivisor technology works with i.MX processors to help our shared customers develop products that combine security with world-class end-user experiences.”

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