Trusted Operating System (TOS) generally refers to an operating system that provides sufficient support for multilevel security and evidence of correctness to meet a particular set of government requirements.
The most common set of criteria for trusted operating system design is the Common Criteria combined with the Security Functional Requirements (SFRs) for Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP) and mandatory access control (MAC). The Common Criteria is the result of a multi-year effort by the governments of the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries[1] to develop a harmonized security criteria for IT products.
Examples
Examples of certified trusted operating systems are:
Examples of operating systems that might be certifiable are:
Companies that have created trusted operating systems include:
- Addamax (BSD, SVR3, SVR4, HP/UX)
- Argus Systems Group (Solaris, AIX, Linux)
- AT&T (System V)
- BAE Systems (XTS Unix)
- Bull (AIX)
- Data General (DG/UX)
- Digital Equipment Corporation (Ultrix)
- Forcepoint (Hardened SELinux)
- Gemini Computers (GEMSOS)
- General Dynamics C4 Systems (Linux)
- Harris Corporation (SVR3, SVR4)
- Hewlett-Packard (HP/UX)
- Honeywell (Multics)
- IBM (OS/390, AIX)
- SCO (SCO Unix)
- Secure Computing Corporation (LOCK, Mach, BSD)
- SecureWare (Apple A/UX, HP/UX, SCO)
- Sequent Computer Systems (Dynix/ptx)
- Silicon Graphics (IRIX)
- Sun Microsystems (SunOS, Solaris)
- Trusted Information Systems (Xenix, Mach)
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