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News Release from: SDC Systems | Subject: General Software Boot Security Application
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 March 2005
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SDC Systems has a new firmware application from General Software for increasing security and trust in embedded x86 devices.
SDC Systems has a new firmware application from General Software for increasing security and trust in embedded x86 devices As the second member of a new Firmware Application Suite specifically developed to enhance embedded x86 systems, the Boot Security application provides an ideal way of ensuring the integrity of deployed products ranging from set-top boxes, teller machines, voting machines, gaming machines, information appliances, industrial controllers and telecommunications equipment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Maintaining integrity of embedded devices is becoming increasingly important as more critical functions are being handled by these systems".
"The Boot Security application from General Software is a unique firmware application that establishes trust between platform hardware and the user application, preventing operation of systems compromised by unauthorised alteration of the BIOS, OS or application", said Stuart Parker, Managing Director of SDC Systems.
"Our customers can now develop products that have built in safeguards against product tampering; using cryptographic verification techniques before, during, and after the OS and application have booted, they can be confident that both hardware and critical software components have not been compromised".
"Our firmware solution goes far beyond today's simple middleware or software security applications".
Boot Security is a firmware application written using Firmbase Technology that runs cryptographic checks on software components prior to boot, and performs additional, optionally bidirectional, cryptographic handshaking with the application once the system has booted.
When these checks fail, Boot Security can be directed by a policy established by the ODM/OEM in the system registry to generate alerts over the network, run or terminate an OEM application, or log the events to mass storage.
It can also trigger an automatic reload of trusted software.
Standard Firmbase Technology TCB user-level security is provided on administrative remote access common applications include tamper-proof BIOS, OS and user application/data on ODM/OEM hardware; and eliminating the possibility that the user application might be run successfully on nonauthorised hardware.
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