Posted to News on 24th Nov 2012, 12:59
Embedded virtualisation and security for automation
At the SPS IPC Drives 2012 show from 27-29 November in Nuremberg, Germany, Innominate Security Technologies and TenAsys Corporation are presenting their joint new HyperSecured IPC offering to OEMs for the first time. The system combines an mGuard security software appliance from Innominate with a Windows system on the same multi-core PC platform using the latest TenAsys eVM for Windows embedded virtualisation software. It thus provides a hardened and secure Windows platform for networked industrial PC applications in a cost effective way.
Two years ago, Innominate introduced the so-called HyperSecured concept of using a hypervisor to protect industrial automation components by virtualised security appliances and demonstrated its feasibility with the exhibit of a HyperSecured Soft-PLC.
TenAsys and Innominate have now combined technologies to further the concept and make it ready for production use. In the joint offering, TenAsys eVM for Windows embedded virtualisation manager provides the foundation to integrate a standard Windows operating system with the mGuard software from Innominate running in its own virtual machine on a single PC. Additional real-time cores can then also be made available in this environment such that, for example, a real-time controller and an operator interface, both with integrated network security, can be implemented on one multi-core hardware platform.
Innominate and TenAsys expect the product to become commercially available through initial OEMs from the IPC industry within the first half of 2013. For further information about HyperSecured IPC, go to www.innominate.com, or visit the companies at the SPS IPC Drives 2012.
