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System Security Guide
The QNX System Security Guide is intended for both system integrators who are responsible for the security of a QNX OS system and developers who want to create a QNX OS resource manager free from vulnerabilities.

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This User's Guide describes version 8.0 of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's part of the QNX Tool Suite.
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QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running the QNX OS 8.0.
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  The System Architecture guide accompanies the QNX OS and is intended for both application developers and end-users.
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- System Security Guide
  The QNX System Security Guide is intended for both system integrators who are responsible for the security of a QNX OS system and developers who want to create a QNX OS resource manager free from vulnerabilities.
  - Security Features Overview
  - Security for Developers
  - Security for System Integrators
  - Abilities
  - Security Policies
    Although QNX OS allows a process to set which operations it is permitted to do, a better option is to use the system’s security policies functionality.
  - Fortified System Functions
  - Pathtrust
    The pathtrust feature prevents processes from executing untrusted code. If a process is compromised, pathtrust mitigates the threat of the system being further compromised by an attacker using chained-together exploits.
  - Using mkqnximage to Display Security Features
  - Abilities Reference
  - Security Matrix
    The following table describes security problems and cyberattacks and the QNX OS security features that can mitigate them.
- Utilities & Libraries
- Migrating to QNX OS 8.0
QNX Software in the Cloud
QNX Software in the Cloud enables developers to use the QNX software in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).
QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
This User's Guide describes the QNX^® Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. The guide introduces you to the QNX Toolkit by explaining the QNX development environment and how to build, run, and debug your QNX^® Operating System (OS) applications and systems.
QNX Hypervisor and QNX Hypervisor for Safety
The QNX Hypervisor and QNX Hypervisor for Safety products allow you to run multiple OSs on a target system so you can separate critical and non-critical functions, support a wide variety of applications, and reduce hardware costs.
Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation, explains how to obtain technical support, and provides some information about licensing.

About This Document

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The QNX System Security Guide is intended for both system integrators who are responsible for the security of a QNX OS system and developers who want to create a QNX OS resource manager free from vulnerabilities.

This guide is organized around these main topics:


Topic	Chapter(s)
Brief descriptions of the features that protect the system and individual processes from attack	Security Features Overview
More detailed descriptions of security features that are primarily of interest to developers of resource managers and other QNX OS projects	Security for Developers
More detailed descriptions of features that are primarily of interest to those who are responsible for implementing and enforcing security policies that create and maintain a trusted execution environment	Security for System Integrators
Process manager abilities, a set of permissions that control which actions a process can perform.	Abilities, Abilities Reference
Using security policies that control privileges centrally instead of in the processes themselves	Security Policies
Using fortified versions of various system functions that check their arguments for conditions such as potential overflow of a destination buffer	Fortified System Functions
Restrict the code executed by a privileged process	Pathtrust
Using mkqnximage to build a system image that demonstrates security feature configuration and functionality.	Using mkqnximage to Display Security Features
Security problems and attacks and the QNX OS security features that can mitigate them	Security Matrix

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