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OK Labs and LG Developing Defense-Grade Mobile Devices
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Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile devices has announced a partnership with LG Electronics to create "Defense-Grade" mobile devices in support of a Department of Defence contract with OK Labs.
These ultra-secure smartphones, tablets and other devices will integrate key elements of the OK Labs High Assurance Framework and deploy the OKL4 Microvisor to virtualize Android, other mobile platforms and off-the-shelf mobile software, isolating mission-critical and personal operations modes.
In government as in enterprise, IT departments are faced with seemingly incompatible demands - to support mobile workers with secure communications, applications and access to organizational resources; and to accommodate those same workers' desires to carry the latest smart phones and tablets for personal communications, productivity and lifestyle computing. Today, the strictures of national and organizational security limit the choices for secure devices and applications, forcing workers to carry multiple phones and/or tablets - one for work and other(s) for personal use.
With the High Assurance Framework (HAF), OK Labs and LG will modify mobile devices which may enable federal, military and civilian government employees to carry a single device. HAF may also let those organizations accommodate the personal communications and productivity needs of employees and service personnel.
Tags: [department of defence] [lg electronics] [android] [ok labs]
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