http://www.darkreading.com/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100421



By Kelly Jackson Higgins

DarkReading

Nov 18, 2008



An operating system used in military fighter planes has raised the bar 

for system security as a new commercial offering.



After receiving the highest security rating by a National Security 

Agency (NSA)-run certification program, Green Hills Software has 

announced that its Integrity-178B operating system was certified as 

EAL6+ and that the company had spun off a subsidiary to market the OS to 

the private sector as well as government agencies.



"[EAL6+] is the highest [rating] in the world [given to an OS so far 

today]. This means that the OS was designed and certified to defend 

against well-funded and sophisticated attackers," says David Chandler, 

CEO of Integrity Global Security, the new Green Hills subsidiary.



Windows and Linux, meanwhile, are EAL 4+ certified, which means they can 

defend against "inadvertent and casual" security breach attempts, 

Chandler says. Integrity-178 B meets the rigorous Common Criteria 

Separation Kernel Protection Profile (SKPP) standard, which guarantees 

that malicious code can't corrupt or harm any other application running 

on the system.



"I'm delighted that they have accomplished this," said Stephen Hanna, 

co-chair of the Trusted Computing group and distinguished engineer with 

Juniper Networks, during his keynote at the CSI 2008 conference in 

National Harbor, Md., Tuesday. "This is serious security."



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