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WHITE PAPER Software Security by Design mrcy.com 3 modified to turn off secure communication protocols, or an attacker may introduce malicious code that causes physical damage or fails to report accurate sensor information. Worse, a hands-on attacker may simply be interested in discovering hidden backdoors or remotely exploitable software vulnerabilities for future undetected access or mass disruption. To address today 's security challenges, Mercury has researched and developed comprehensive software protection tools for embedded systems that address security requirements, including: ▪ ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of software/ firmware/data at rest, ▪ providing a trusted boot process that measures hardware integrity and securely instantiates only approved software configurations, ▪ providing authenticated firmware update mechanisms, OS OS SSD Storage BIOS TPM Memory Controller RAM PCH PCI-E M.2 USB LAN L3 Cache APP APP CPUs CRUCIBLE ▪ defeating runtime exploits, privilege escalation, and unauthorized access attempts, ▪ providing remote attestation, and ▪ monitoring runtime software/hardware integrity. The combination of all components of Titanium Technology Protection provide the security foundations for the protection of critically important software and data assets. TITANIUM SECURE HYPERVISOR Secure Embedded Hypervisor Titanium Secure Hypervisor is built upon the open-source and widely deployed Xen Project1, and is specifically designed for use in hostile computing environments. Titanium Secure Hypervisor operates as trusted supervisory software within the processor – configuring and controlling both hardware resources and software execution in order to ensure and maintain the integrity of system operations.

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