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[Via Satellite 10-30-13] ViaSat and Green Hills Software have partnered to deliver military-grade security for Android smartphones and tablets. The INTEGRITY Multivisor separation-kernel has been selected as the hypervisor solution for ViaSat Secured, a mobile enterprise system that addresses the stringent security, privacy, manageability, and usability demands for dual-use, personal and business, smartphones and tablets. ViaSat Secured offers a carrier-agnostic suite of the latest and most popular mobile devices so that users may switch between personal and corporate use.

ViaSat Secured devices are pre-programmed with Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY Multivisor, a foundational firmware layer of data protection and isolation below the mobile operating system that enables either a secure single or dual persona solution. They are managed with ViaSat’s network management, which includes firmware-over-the-air update (FOTA) and enterprise policy management services, as well as an open application-programming interface (API) for integrating with enterprise Mobile Device Management (MDM) products.

“ViaSat Secured isolates at the mobile device hardware level, below the mobile OS, rendering even root mobile OS exploits completely harmless with respect to enterprise information and network access,” said Gordon Jones, VP for secure virtualization, Green Hills Software.