Lower your support costs and gain a competitive edge by preventing unauthorized changes to your embedded devices deployed in the field. Solidcore's S3 Control – Embedded is the industry's first and only solution to secure and automate the enforcement of software change policies on embedded devices.
"We are pleased that BSQUARE and Solidcore have entered into a partnership to expand distribution of Solidcore's protection solution to embedded devices, including those that support Windows Embedded operating systems. The Windows Embedded platform helps developers and OEMs achieve a rapid time to market and build differentiated devices, and with the integration of Solidcore, customers will have a solution to help them achieve enhanced control of their devices."
Irena Andonova, Group Product Manager, Windows Embedded Business Microsoft Corp.
S3 Control – Embedded reduces support costs by enabling control over software changes as the embedded device flows through the channel and is serviced in the field by third party organizations. Additionally, with a very small footprint, it secures the embedded device against zero day security threats, reducing patching frequency.
S3 Control – Embedded supports any device running commercial or open operating systems including Microsoft Windows XP, XP Embedded, WEPOS, Windows Storage Server, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Linux and Solaris. Examples of such devices include ATMs, kiosks, point of sale terminals, self-checkout devices, handheld devices, medical device modalities: XRay, Ultrasound, Cardiovascular, MRI devices, etc, thin clients, industrial plant controllers, storage appliances, entertainment devices and others.
Solidcore's S3 Control - Embedded is a low footprint, low overhead software change control and security solution that can be setup quickly with very low initial and ongoing operational overhead that provides:
Change Control
S3 Control - Embedded helps enforce the device owner's change control policy in two distinct workflows. First, as the device flows through it's multi-stage manufacturing lifecycle as multiple channel vendors install their own software and value added services. Second, during in-production operational maintenance and support as the device owner or the multiple channel vendors issue software updates for their software/hardware.
This module provides flexibility in the operations during a device's lifecycle. For example: it can enforce that only the software certified by the device owner can be applied to the device during manufacturing and in-production and none other. Alternatively, it can also allow selective channel partners to be able to make updates to the device and log the updates made for use in forensics.
In addition, S3 Control - Embedded can be utilized to enforce that the control requirements are met for PCI, FDA, HIPAA, and other regulatory mandates. It ensures that the necessary tamperproof audit logs are present on the device to prove that regulatory controls are in place.
Runtime Control
S3 Control - Embedded helps provide protection against existing and any zero day polymorphic threats via malware such as worms, viruses, Trojans and buffer-overflow threats, etc thereby ensuring that the device when in production is secure and cannot be compromised. It also helps eliminate emergency patching, reduces number and frequency of patching cycles and enables more time for testing before patching. It also reduces any security risk on difficult to patch devices that are for instance remote and distributed in areas with little or no local support. Runtime Control module helps reduce costs of operations by reducing both planned patching and unplanned recovery downtime, thereby increasing device availability. This turns out to be an ideal solution especially for lower end devices as it reduces the support costs by reducing number of touch points needed.
Solidcore's S3 Control - Embedded is a low footprint, low overhead software change control and security solution that can be setup quickly with very low initial and ongoing operational overhead that provides:
