Four embedded software and services companies will team up on a series of half-day seminars on device security. LynuxWorks, Arrow OEM Computing Solutions, Ojective Interface Systems, and Certicon will hold the seminars in 12 cities, starting Oct. 25.

The free event will begin in Minneapolis on Oct. 25, and continue in Cedar Rapids, Boston, San Jose (Calif.), Los Angeles, Phoenix, Maryland, St. Louis, Dallas, Chicago, Huntsville, and Melbourne (Fla.).

According to LynuxWorks, the seminar will address “a multitude of considerations when developing secure embedded systems, including information assurance and security, evaluation of assurance levels, certification artifacts and process, Rushby separation kernel model, encryption, and security issues within the operating system, middleware, and networking environment.”

LynuxWorks is an embedded Linux distributor whose proprietary LynxOS RTOS (real-time operating system) was recently chosen for a large military project, largely thanks to support for Linux binaries.

Co-presenters include:

• Certicom — Creator of Eliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), which it says has light CPU requirements, yet is used by the NSA (National Security Association) for classified and sensitive but unclassified government communications
• Arrow OEM Computing Solutions (OCS) — Provides design engineering, manufacturing, system integration, supply chain management, and post-manufacturing services to industrial OEMs and intellectual property-based companies. A division of Arrow Electronics, the exclusive North American distributor of LynuxWorks products.
• Objective Interface Systems — Sells real-time and embedded middleware communications software, including distributed objects (CORBA), publish-subscribe (DDS), and secure communications middleware development tools

LynuxWorks CEO Inder Singh said, “As we add more intelligence to our embedded devices, we find that they are becoming increasingly integrated into our information technology infrastructure. Though system security is not a new concept, security-in-depth is a new paradigm that developers now need to address.”

Additional details, such as precise event locations, are available to registrants. Registration can be done here.

 
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