Helios is an innovative secure processor, unencumbered by legacy architectures, to finally design in positive control and design out memory corruption vulnerabilities.
Helios prevents code injection attacks, COP/JOP, planting foreign code in or tampering with boot, memory corruption attacks on non-owned memory, cold boot or data remanence attacks, and reading or altering memory via I/O, DMA or Rowhammer-style attacks.
Helios builds upon the more inherently secure Harvard architecture and adds the ability to facilitate just-in-time decryption and authentication of instructions and data within the security boundary of the processor. In this design, the instruction and data interfaces are securely isolated by a hardware-based crypto engine.
This approach alone prevents 46% of known cyber attacks.
Helios is licensed as IP for FPGA and ASIC designs. Helios delivers:
Positive Control: The processor will only execute genuine instructions
Confidentiality: Bad actors cannot extract unencrypted information
Compatible Integration: Does not require the re-architecture of software
Cyber Survivability: Prevent and detect memory corruption exploits
Embedded Cross Domain Solutions/Multi-Level Security: Cryptographic separation of processes
Physical Attack Protection: Includes state of the art anti-tamper protections
