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  • Previewing the new Arm Corstone FreeRTOS Featured Reference Integration
    Most people know Arm for our hardware designs and our Cortex CPUs, but our ongoing commitment to the software ecosystem that enables this hardware is just as critical. It's really important to us that developers can easily take advantage of the latest features of our CPUs, ML accelerators and other system IP. Because FreeRTOS powers […]
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  • Achieving Unbrickable MCU FOTA for your FreeRTOS-powered Firmware: The Microvisor IoT Approach
    FreeRTOS brings a stack of functionality to embedded applications, enabling them to become much more flexible, and their developers to be more creative. But there's a key requirement of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in particular that takes a lot of extra development work to put in place, to make it truly secure, and to […]
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  • The FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP library is now more robust and secure
    While we work on the FreeRTOS Labs IPv6 project, we are continuing to improve the robustness, security, and modularity of the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP library. To that end, today, we are excited to release the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP V3.0.0 library. FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP V3.0.0 adds comprehensive unit test coverage for all lines and branches of code, and has undergone penetration testing […]
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  • Introducing Three Featured FreeRTOS IoT Integrations for More Secure IoT Applications
    We are excited to announce three Featured FreeRTOS IoT Integrations developed in collaboration with our partners Espressif, NXP Semiconductors and STMicroelectronics. Each project demonstrates the use of the latest FreeRTOS and AWS Embedded C SDK Long Term Support (LTS) libraries, and the latest microcontroller architecture capabilities to raise the bar for the security and modularity […]
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  • Secure OTA Updates for Cortex-M Devices with FreeRTOS
    IoT devices are getting rapid adoption in every market segment and becoming a major target for cyberattacks. A significant proportion of attacks on IoT devices happens due to a lack of software updates once commissioned in the field or updates done insecurely. Cyber attackers often target vulnerabilities in outdated software components to take control of […]
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  • Why SESIP™ Certification for FreeRTOS Matters
    FreeRTOS is now certified for the Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP™) Assurance Level 2. FreeRTOS is software that, in most cases, runs on embedded system processors. More than ever, developers are building FreeRTOS applications while participating in a growing community that has been working together for more than 18 years. Although the primary […]
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  • Using Formal Methods to validate OTA Protocol
    AWS FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system designed to run on IoT devices to enable them to interact easily and reliably with AWS services. The Over the Air (OTA) update functionality makes it possible to update a device with security fixes quickly and reliably. The OTA Library, a part of the overall OTA functionality that […]
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  • Security for Arm Cortex-M devices with FreeRTOS
    Securing microcontrollers is a challenge, hampered in part by lack of hardware enforced security domains. Creating two security domains typically requires two microprocessors each with a separate Memory Protection Unit (MPU). Arm TrustZone, introduced with the Armv8-M architecture, enables two security processing environments on a single Cortex-M processor (see Using FreeRTOS on Armv8-M Microcontrollers). Once […]
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  • Ensuring the Memory Safety of FreeRTOS Part 2
    In Part 1, we discussed how FreeRTOS is addressing an important source of security issues --- buffer overflows --- by ensuring the memory safety of the TCP/IP, ARP, DHCP, DNS, and HTTPS header parsing in the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP TCP/IP stack. We described how we're using an automated reasoning technique, software model checking, and how the level […]
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  • Ensuring the Memory Safety of FreeRTOS Part 1
    FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system designed for resource-constrained devices, including devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). Because these devices are resource-constrained, they do not provide all the hardware mechanisms richer operating systems utilize to protect the system from external adversaries. On such small devices, security depends on simpler memory protection and execution privilege level hardware, […]
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