Handling Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) should be easier to handle according to Wind River, if the aerospace and defense companies use their VxWorks platform.

The platform provides a comprehensive MILS environment for deploymen of co-resident secure and non-applications on a single MMU-partitioned microprocessor.

Wind River is announcing a secure VxWorks platform, based on MILS concepts for a Secure Real Time Operating System (SRTOS) and targeted for certification to Evaluation Assurance Level 7 (EAL7) of the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation.

Features include:- a secure kernel bas on the Separation Kernel Protection Profile, secure audit, application and system partitioning, multiple APIs,OS interface library.

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