Complete Embedded Firewall Solution Protects Embedded Devices from Internet-based Attacks with Static Filtering, Stateful Packet Inspection and Threshold-Based Filtering

West Des Moines, IA – ( December 7, 2011) – Icon Labs (www.iconlabs.com) a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, today announced that UBM Electronics’ EDN has named their Floodgate-Packet Filter embedded firewall one of the “100 Hot Products of 2011.” The 2011 EDN Hot 100 highlights the electronics industry’s most significant products of the year based on innovation, significance, usefulness, and popularity.

According to Rich Pell, Executive Editor of EDN and Designlines, UBM Electronics, who oversaw and contributed to the EDN Hot 100, “Icon Labs’ Floodgate-Packet Filter was selected as one of this year’s EDN Hot 100 Products for its promise as a significant contribution to security technology in embedded networking. By providing an embedded firewall that enables network-connected embedded devices to filter data packets before they’re processed, and thus avoid potentially harmful external attacks, this technology helps bring closer the realization of the ‘Internet of Things.’”

“This awards program has been in existence since 1993 and over the years has highlighted many industry trends – this year is no different. We are very pleased to showcase the top products of the many thousands announced during the past year that especially caught the attention of our editors and readers,” added Pell.

The complete list of EDN’s Hot 100 Products can be found online at here or within the December 15, 2011 issue of EDN Magazine.

“The selection of Floodgate to the EDN Hot 100 is a great honor and represents another endorsement of Icon Labs’ leadership in embedded device security, and the importance of firewall technology for embedded devices,” said Alan Grau, President of Icon Labs. “According to IDC, there are now 5 billion devices connected to the Internet and attacks against embedded devices have become front page news. Firewalls have long been a cornerstone of security in home and enterprise networks. Floodgate brings firewall technology to embedded devices, providing protection against a wide range of attacks and closing a critical security loophole.”

Floodgate’s threshold-based filtering protects against denial of service attacks, broadcast storms, and other conditions that result in a flood of unwanted packets. Rules-based filtering allows white-listing and black-listing based on criteria such as port number, protocol, or source IP address. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) provides dynamic packet filtering based on the state of a connection.

Icon Labs’ Floodgate Firewall is provided as a portable source code library and is easily integrated with any embedded operating system and TCP/IP stack and has been ported to Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY and VelOSity, Wind River’s VxWorks and LynuxWorks’ LynxOS. Floodgate makes it easy to add complete, configurable firewall protection to your product regardless of the embedded platform.

About Icon Laboratories, Inc.
Icon Labs is a leading provider of embedded networking and security solutions. Founded in 1992, Icon Labs is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, visit www.iconlabs.com, send email to info@iconlabs.com, or call 1.888.235.3443 (U.S. and Canada) or 515.226.3443 (International).

About EDN (www.edn.com)
EDN, a leading UBM Electronics brand, is the comprehensive information resource for the electronics original equipment manufacturer segment, providing in-depth technical information for electronics design engineers and news and strategic business insight for executives.

About UBM Electronics
UBM Electronics is the global leader in media and marketing solutions for the electronics industry. UBM Electronics delivers results for the key influencers and decision makers involved in the design, development and commercialization of technology through its market leading brands, peer communities and professional education services. More than 2.2 million engineering professionals engage with UBM Electronics brands which include EE Times, EDN, EDN China, EDN Asia, EDN Japan, Design News and Test & Measurement World, TechOnline, Designlines and Embedded.com across the globe to accelerate technology sales. The international electronics community gathers at UBM Electronics market leading events such as the Embedded Systems Conferences, DesignCon and ARM Technology Conference to share, learn, discuss, and advance the critical issues and challenges facing the electronics industry. Additionally, UBM Electronics provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation marketing, integrated media, custom solutions and research. UBM Electronics is part of UBM (UBM.L) a global provider of media and information services for professional B2B communities and markets.

(Oct. 21, 2011) Hosted by Alix Paultre, the Tinker’s Toolbox is the Advantage Design Group’s web-based interview show where we talk about the latest technology, components, and design issues for the electronic design engineering community.

In this podcast Alix talks to Alan Grau, President and CEO of Icon Labs on the issues of security in embedded systems.

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Floodgate Firewall Protects Embedded Devices from Internet-based Attacks with Static Filtering, Stateful Packet Inspection and Threshold-Based Filtering

West Des Moines, IA – (Oct 5, 2011) – Icon Labs (www.iconlabs.com) a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, today announced the availability of Icon Labs’ Floodgate Firewall with Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI). With the addition of Stateful Packet Inspection, Floodgate is the only embedded firewall providing complete protection against Internet-based attacks.

Researchers from Columbia University’s Intrusion Detection Systems Lab have concluded that embedded devices are over 20 times more vulnerable to Internet-based threats than Enterprise Networks. As network connectivity in embedded devices becomes commonplace and our reliance on these devices grows, so has the importance of protecting these devices from Internet-based threats.

“Compared to industry standard firewalls, Floodgate is a lot smaller and can be integrated at the lowest layers in the network stacks,” said Alan Grau, CEO of Icon Labs. “The small size enables this firewall to be packaged into a wide range of Internet connected devices such as medical devices, utility monitoring systems, web cams, cable modems, routers and mobile devices including phones. Because it works at the lowest layer of the network stack, Floodgate provides the most comprehensive protection possible.”

Floodgate’s threshold-based filtering protects against denial of service attacks, broadcast storms, and other conditions that result in a flood of unwanted packets. Rules-based filtering allows white-listing and black-listing based on criteria such as port number, protocol, or source IP address. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) provides dynamic packet filtering based on the state of a connection.

Icon Labs’ Floodgate Firewall is provided as a portable source code library and is easily integrated with any embedded operating system and TCP/IP stack and has been ported to Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY and VelOSity, Wind River’s VxWorks and LynuxWorks’ LynxOS. Floodgate makes it easy to add complete, configurable firewall protection to your product regardless of the embedded platform.

About Icon Labs
Icon Labs is a leading provider of embedded networking and security solutions. Founded in 1992, Icon Labs is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, visit www.iconlabs.com, send email to info@iconlabs.com, or call 1.888.235.3443 (U.S. and Canada) or 515.226.3443 (International).

Media Contact:
Icon Labs
Alan Grau
Tel: 515-226-3443×21
Email: alan.grau@iconlabs.com

Date : 5/3/2011, Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose, CA.
Icon Labs (www.icon-labs.com), a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, and Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced the availability of Icon Labs’ Floodgate Packet Filter as a service for Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking. With this combined solution, Green Hills’ customers can quickly and efficiently extend its networked products layer 3 protections from Internet-based attacks – delivering maximum threat protection for customers’ internet-connected devices.

Researchers from Columbia University’s Intrusion Detection Systems Lab have shown embedded devices are far more vulnerable to Internet-based threats than Enterprise Networks. The researchers have established a global average vulnerability rate for devices such as home routers, cable modems, and webcams, of 41.62% compared to 2.46% for enterprise devices. As network connectivity in embedded devices has become commonplace and our reliance on these devices has grown, so has the importance of protecting these devices from Internet-based threats.

“We are partnering with Icon Labs because their Floodgate technology provides a drop-in embedded firewall solution for our INTEGRITY real-time operating system, the foundation for our Platform for Secure Networking,” said Dan Mender, vice president of business development, Green Hills Software. “By combining the foundational security of our INTEGRITY operating system with the proven, secure and reliable firewall solution from Icon Labs, Green Hills Software’s customers can develop industry leading secure solutions that provide expansive protection from a wide range of growing Internet-based attacks.”

“We are pleased to be partnering with the largest independent embedded software provider to offer our embedded firewall offering as a seamless add-on to their INTEGRITY-based software solutions and platforms,” said Alan Grau, CEO of Icon Labs. “Increasingly, embedded devices are subject to the same threats as PCs in corporate and home environments. By adding Icon Labs’ Floodgate firewall to your INTEGRITY-based network connected devices, Green Hills’ customers can deliver the utmost threat protection for the anticipated threats the Internet will deliver.”

Floodgate Packet Filter is a comprehensive product that can be integrated into a wide variety of network-enabled device designs to provide protection against the ever-growing number of Internet-based attacks. Threshold-based filtering protects against denial of service attacks, broadcast storms and other conditions that result in a flood of unwanted packets. Rules-based filtering allows white-listing and black-listing based on criteria such as port number, protocol or source IP address and Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) provides dynamic packet filtering based on the state of a connection.

The combination of Green Hills’ INTEGRITY operating system and Icon Labs’ Floodgate Packet Filter make it easy to add complete, configurable firewall protection to your end product, all running on the industries most proven, secure real time operating system – INTEGRITY. The solution is being demonstrated at Green Hills’ booth (#916) at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley, May 3-5, 2011.

About Icon Laboratories, Inc.
Icon Labs is a leading provider of embedded networking and security solutions. Founded in 1992, Icon Labs is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, visit www.iconlabs.com, send email to info@iconlabs.com, or call 1.888.235.3443 (U.S. and Canada) or 515.226.3443 (International).

About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

Media Contact:
Icon Labs
Alan Grau
Tel: 515-707-4179
Email: alan.grau@iconlabs.com
ESC: Booth 916

Date : 1/3/2011, West Des Moines, IA.
Icon Labs (www.icon-labs.com), a leading provider of embedded networking and security technology, today announced the availability of Floodgate-Packet FilterTM, an embedded firewall that allows networked devices to control the packets they process. Floodgate protects against potentially malicious attacks by filtering packets before they are processed by an embedded device. Floodgate provides both threshold-based filtering and rules-based filtering.
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