MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, San Diego, Calif., Nov. 18, 2008 —LynuxWorks™, Inc., (booth 1603) a world leader in the embedded software market, and Arxan Defense Systems Inc., a leading anti-tamper software provider, today announced a partnership that will provide system integrators with leading edge anti-tampering solutions for their specific program’s security and anti-tamper requirements. Built to work on LynuxWorks’ LynxOS® real-time operating system (RTOS), Arxan Defense Systems’s EnforcIT® platform enables application hardening solutions, allowing developers to protect code against tampering, reverse engineering and other attacks.

LynuxWorks provides safety critical and secure operating systems to the aerospace and defense community. “A number of our customers today are using LynuxWorks’ operating systems with Arxan Defense Systems’s technology,” said Gurjot Singh, CEO, LynuxWorks. “Today’s announced partnership formalizes the availability of Arxan Defense Systems technology across our entire RTOS product line. The addition of Arxan Defense Systems’s best-of-breed application hardening solutions makes our secure software products more comprehensive and attractive to developers who are required to deliver secure and tamper-resistant code per Critical Program Information (CPI) anti-tamper mandates.”

Arxan Defense Systems’s advanced anti-tamper platform comprises the EnforcIT family of products and professional services. The EnforcIT family, which includes software and hardware protection products, provides a complete end-to-end anti-tamper solution based on Arxan Defense Systems’s patented Guard technology. Arxan Defense Systems supports a variety of software configurations, including desktop and embedded software written in ADA, native C/C++ and managed (.NET) C/C++/C# languages.

“Protecting our nation’s most vital software and hardware assets from tampering and code lifting is an essential step towards preserving national security and intellectual property,” said Rich Earley, vice chairman and CEO of Arxan Defense Systems. “Arxan Defense Systems is pleased to empower developers with strong fortification capabilities for LynuxWorks’ real-time operating systems and provide them with a complete anti-tamper solution.”

About LynuxWorks
LynuxWorks, a world leader in the embedded software market, is committed to providing open and reliable real-time operating systems (RTOS) and software tools to embedded developers. The company's LynxOS family of operating systems offers open standards with the highest level of safety and security features, enabling many mission-critical systems in defense, avionics and other industries. Additionally, LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux provides the features and support of embedded Linux for companies wanting to use open source technology for their embedded applications. The Eclipse-based Luminosity IDE gives a powerful and consistent development system across all LynuxWorks operating systems.  Since it was established in 1988, LynuxWorks has created technology that has been successfully deployed in thousands of designs and millions of products made by leading communications, avionics, aerospace/defense, and consumer electronics companies. LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit www.lynuxworks.com.

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