Nov 1, 2018   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Hex Five Security Announces Creation of Strategic Advisory Board

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Hex Five Security, Inc, the creator of MultiZone(TM) Security, the first trusted execution environment for RISC-V, today announced the formation of the Hex Five Strategic Advisory Board, an esteemed group of technical and business leaders chosen to counsel the company on achieving its goal of making RISC-V the most secure processor platform.

Don Barnetson, co-founder of Hex Five Security commented, "With the rapid growth of the RISC-V ecosystem and our initial release of MultiZone(TM) Security complete, the time is right to focus on our strategic objective of putting MultiZone(TM) Security into every RISC-V boot rom." Hex Five Security's advisors include:

    --  Celeste Cooper is currently the Chief of Staff to the CTO at Western
        Digital. In her role at Western Digital, Celeste is an active member of
        the RISC-V Foundation supporting commercialization efforts and the
        buildout of the RISC-V ecosystem. Prior to joining Western Digital,
        Celeste was at Hewlett Packard Enterprise where she held several roles
        including Vice President of Global Professional Services and Vice
        President of Strategy & Operations / Chief of Staff for the
        Communications Solutions Business. Celeste has also been involved with
        several startups including her role as the Chief Operating Officer of
        Runa, Inc.
    --  Jon Geater is a cryptographic security industry veteran and globally
        recognized expert in Trusted Execution Environments. Most recently as
        Chief Technology Officer for Thales eSecurity, Jon has held senior
        global roles in leading companies such as ARM (Director of Technology
        and Division CTO, Secure Services Division) and TEE specialist Trustonic
        (founding Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President
        Engineering). A keen supporter of open standards, Jon has been a board
        director and chair of the Security Task Force at GlobalPlatform, and
        currently serves on the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation's
        Hyperledger project.
    --  Art Swift is Vice-Chair of the RISC-V marketing committee and leads
        marketing & business development efforts at Esperanto Technologies, a
        developer of high performance high-performance, energy-efficient
        computing solutions based on the open standard RISC-V ISA. He has more
        than 25 years of executive-level experience in the tech industry,
        including CEO at low power chip-maker Transmeta, CEO of nanotech
        innovator Unidym, and vice president of marketing and business
        development at MIPS, a leading provider of microprocessor IP.

"Security is critical to every application," said Celeste Cooper. "The standard RISC-V specification contains the hooks, but MultiZone Security enables designers to implement robust security by default - without requiring new hardware, tools or workflows."

"We've learned so much over the past 20 years of developments in HSM, TPM and TEE, and naturally in some areas we know we could have done better," said Jon Geater. "With RISC-V and MultiZone Security, we have a chance to design security in from the start and build a simple, robust security architecture that developers can implement as a part of their everyday workflow."

"There is a clear market need for Hex-Five's MultiZone Security," said Art Swift. "Security by separation is a key best practice in the security world, but having just a secure and non-secure zone is not enough. Enabling multiple secure zones without requiring special hardware or deep integration with user code is a breakthrough."

About Hex Five Security
Hex Five is the creator of MultiZone(TM) Security, the first trusted execution environment (TEE) for RISC-V. Hex Five's patent pending technology provides policy-based hardware-enforced separation for an unlimited number of security domains, with full control over data, code, interrupts and peripherals. Contrary to traditional solutions, MultiZone(TM) Security requires no additional hardware, dedicated cores or clunky programming models. Open source libraries, third party binaries and legacy code can be configured in minutes to achieve unprecedented levels of safety and security.

MultiZone(TM) Security is a free and open standard. Download it from the open source repository at https://github.com/hex-five

For more information visit https://www.hex-five.com/

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