PitBull Trusted Operating System

Secure Foundation, Strong Solutions

The PitBull® Trusted Operating System provides protection at the most foundational layer to allow you to develop systems, applications, and solutions with access controls and integrity throughout all levels. By securing at the foundation, PitBull avoids the need for added complexities – allowing you and your customers to be more efficient and to save on one-off security products. Enhance your solutions and lower cybersecurity risk by building on a flexible, adaptable, and secure operating system.

Provides Secure Foundation for Applications
Segregates Data, Applications and Interfaces
Contains Data Loss and Prevents Data Spillage
Reduces Insider Threat Risk
Lowers Zero Day Attack Risk

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Features

General Dynamics Mission Systems is partnered with security leader, QGroup. As a trusted operating system partner, QGroup integrates PitBull into their security solution offerings for international customers, including the German Bundeswehr. PitBull is also available as the secure foundation for customized solutions through value-added reseller Codeweavers.

Adds a fundamental layer of security to ensure integrity for all levels of use
Provides foundation for multilevel security
Contains data loss and prevents data spillage
Reduces insider threat risk
Isolates applications, network interfaces, data, and users using simple security labels—does not rely on a complex rule set for isolation
Prevents exploitation of bugs in any one application from damaging the entire system or other running applications
Controls network resources usable by each application
Controls and limits all user and administrator accounts—eliminates superuser vulnerabilities
Allows for the development of flexible, ironclad security architectures
Consolidates workstations, eliminating the need for multiple computing platforms
Installs as an upgrade to an operational system

Additional Features

Security

Identification and authentication
Discretionary access control
Mandatory access control
Mandatory integrity labels
Privileges
Authorizations
Security flags
Auditing
Integrity checking
Advanced secure networking

Unique Features

MAC and MIC lables supported at the kernel level
Provides clearances for both users and processes
Supports roles and authorizations
Uses poly-instantiated MLS network ports and CIPSO-labeled packets
Enforces two-man/four eye login authentication
Allows for dual operational/configuration system modes of operation
System integrity checks and integrity databases

Industry Standards

Exceeds LSPP (EAL4+) Common Criteria requirements
Provides Bell-LaPadula-based MAC (mandatory access controls)
Supports the MTR-10649 MITRE Label Encoding Format file
Supports Biba model MIC (mandatory integrity control) based labels

Software Development Kit

The Software Development Kit is included with the purchase of PitBull. The Kit includes libraries, header files, maintenance pages, and software developer manuals required to write PitBull-specific applications or modify existing applications to become PitBull aware.

Optional Security Features

Building on the PitBull Trusted OS, the optional security features below allow commercial and custom software to be easily configured into trusted, sophisticated network architecture, securing utilities, tools, and scripts. Other benefits include:

Streamlines architectures, improves performance, and reduces costs and manpower requirements
Allows users to securely access back-end applications via the Internet
Enables a modular architecture tailored to a customer’s specific environmental requirements

Secure Communications Enforcer: Tightly integrated trusted programs that pass packets between different security partitions. Examines each incoming request and, if validated, directs it to the appropriate service

Security Gate: Trusted software component that mediates limited, secure communication between applications or utilities in separate compartments, without allowing direct access to each other’s files

Secure Program Launcher: Allows users without powerful authorizations to execute programs that operate at a high level of security, but only in a limited predefined manner

Training

PitBull Introductory Training (3-day): Introductory Training course covers all of the basic PitBull features and commands for users, administrators, software developers, and system architects

PitBull Software Developer Training (2-day): Designed for software developers who will be writing software for PitBull or adding PitBull security features to existing software. Prerequisite: PitBull Introductory Training

PitBull Advanced Training (2 day) (Coming Soon): Designed for administrators, software developers, and system architects; this course covers advanced topics and provides a more in-depth understanding of the PitBull system. Prerequisite: PitBull Introductory Training

PitBull Web API Developer Training (2-day) (Coming Soon): Designed for software developers building client software to interact with PitBull-based servers. Prerequisite: PitBull Introductory Training

For more information about these classes or to enroll in an upcoming PitBull training class, please contact us at PitBullTraining@gd-ms.com.

Literature

Trusted Network Environment (TNE) Powered by the PitBull OS

Get MULTILEVEL INFORMATION ACCESS & SHARING With TNE

General Dynamics Trusted Network Environment (TNE®) is the leading cyber edge solution in use today by the U.S. Department of Defense and Federal Agencies that enables multiple coalitions of interest (COI) to share sensitive information across security boundaries. Built on an enhanced Linux Operating System (OS) provided by our PitBull product, TNE enables this 360 degree collaboration with a suite of trusted software applications, utilities and tools that are fully accredited for cross-domain information sharing.

Learn More About TNE