Embedded World: Wind River, Coverity collaboration tackles security vulnerabilities

Coverity will offer an evaluation edition of its Static Analysis, pictured, preconfigured for Wind River Workbench, supporting both Wind River Linux and VXWorks real time operating system. The companies believe the combined solution will enable development teams to build security into the embedded software development process and effectively address security vulnerabilities as software code is written. Coverity automatically scans source code for security and quality defects, exposing them in developers' existing workflows and is designed to reduce the risk of security vulnerabilities making their way into the field. According to various market estimates, it's expected that by 2020 there will be 50billion connected devices worldwide. As embedded devices become more connected and mobile, from medical devices to avionics and defence systems, they have become the next vector for security threats. "Increased security threats and continued growth of embedded device connectivity create an urgent need to address security during development," said Marc Brown, vice president of Tools and Marketing Operations, Products Group at Wind River. "Together with Coverity, we are providing embedded developers with powerful solutions to rapidly and efficiently identify and tackle software security flaws in their workflow and dramatically curb potential security issues down the road." Wind River will be exhibiting at Embedded World, Nuremberg from 28 February to 1 March 2012.