Star Lab Announces Version 8.0 of Titanium Secure Hypervisor (formerly Crucible) Embedded Virtualization Software

Washington, DC, September 30, 2020 — Star Lab Corporation announced today that Titanium Secure Hypervisor (formerly Crucible) embedded virtualization software version 8.0 has been released and is now available for immediate integration across the telecommunications, industrial, and defense markets. This release of Titanium Secure Hypervisor continues our focus on maintaining a high-quality, secure product and furthers the ability to support multiple boot and guest environments.

In the previous version, 7.1, Star Lab updated Titanium Secure Hypervisor to be based on the Xen 4.13 hypervisor, which provided a number of security-relevant fixes. That version also significantly improved the performance and guest compatibility of Secure Hypervisor by starting to use the more modern “Hardware Virtual Machine” mode of virtualization, which enables guest to be run unmodified. 

With its 8.0 release, Star Lab continues to improve Titanium Secure Hypervisor by adding support for the Titanium Security Suite for Linux 8.0 (Titanium 8.0) guests and Dom0. The release also improves hardware platform support, stability, performance and provisioning workflow. 

According to COO Adam Fraser, “We have been focused on improving both the security and performance of  [Titanium Secure Hypervisor] Crucible across a variety of supported hardware platforms.  The release of [Titanium Secure Hypervisor] Crucible 8.0 is significant milestone for meeting the needs of our customers.”  

What’s next? As part of the near-term Titanium Secure Hypervisor releases, Star Lab engineers are working on adding support for booting without a dedicated dom0 and additional service domain disaggregation, as well as several interface improvements that will increase Crucible’s ease-of-use. 

Star Lab software products protect the most mission-critical systems, infrastructure and equipment in the world. Star Lab’s products are founded on secure-by-design engineering principles, leveraging design patterns that reduce attack surface, isolate critical functionality, and contain or mitigate even successful attacks. For more information on our products for embedded security and virtualization, please contact Michael Mehlberg at michael.mehlberg@starlab.io.