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Embedded Linux Lifecycle Assurance

For teams that need to ship Linux – and keep standing behind it.

Lynx helps embedded product teams build, secure, maintain, and prove Linux-based platforms across the full device lifecycle.

From SBOM and CVE operations to long-term OS and BSP maintenance, Secure by Design implementation, and embedded engineering support, Lynx gives you a path from first boot to long-term field support – so you can keep proving, patching, updating, and supporting the platform your product depends on.

 

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Shipping Linux is Not the Finish Line

The old model was simple: build the image, ship the device, patch when something breaks.

That model is breaking.

Customers want SBOMs. Security teams want CVE status. Regulators want evidence. Product teams want long-term support.

 

Building the platform is the baseline.

Can you keep proving, patching, updating, and supporting it for the life of the product?

Embedded Linux processor connected to branching circuit paths representing BSP maintenance, kernel support, release branches, and long-term platform ownership.

Shipping Linux is Not the Finish Line

The old model was simple: build the image, ship the device, patch when something breaks.

That model is breaking.

Customers want SBOMs. Security teams want CVE status. Regulators want evidence. Product teams want long-term support.

 

Building the platform is the baseline.

Can you keep proving, patching, updating, and supporting it for the life of the product?

Post-Market Risk Shows Up in Four Places

SBOMs become customer evidence

Your SBOM is no longer just documentation. It is how customers judge what is inside your product, what changed, what is exposed, and what you did about it.

 

CVE noise overwhelms engineering teams

Generic vulnerability feeds do not know your BSP, kernel configuration, backported patches, build system, or shipped image.

Product-specific triage matters because more alerts do not equal better decisions.

Holographic software composition layers rising from an embedded Linux processor to represent SBOM evidence, release visibility, and product traceability.

Post-Market Risk Shows Up in Four Places

SBOMs become customer evidence

Your SBOM is no longer just documentation. It is how customers judge what is inside your product, what changed, what is exposed, and what you did about it.

 

CVE noise overwhelms engineering teams

Generic vulnerability feeds do not know your BSP, kernel configuration, backported patches, build system, or shipped image.

Product-specific triage matters because more alerts do not equal better decisions.

 

BSPs become security infrastructure

Your BSP shapes the patch strategy, update path, hardware roadmap, and long-term support model.

When no one owns BSP maintenance, every future security update gets harder.

 

Secure by Design has to be engineered

Secure boot, signed updates, rollback protection, encrypted storage, hardening, and service isolation are not policy statements.

They are platform capabilities.

Alert signals and vulnerability data flowing toward an embedded Linux platform, representing product-specific CVE triage and reduced vulnerability noise.

BSPs become security infrastructure

Your BSP shapes the patch strategy, update path, hardware roadmap, and long-term support model.

When no one owns BSP maintenance, every future security update gets harder.

 

Secure by Design has to be engineered

Secure boot, signed updates, rollback protection, encrypted storage, hardening, and service isolation are not policy statements.

They are platform capabilities.

Lynx turns Fragmented Linux Risk into Lifecycle Assurance

Lynx connects the work that usually gets handled in fragments: SBOMs, CVEs, BSP maintenance, security controls, patching, release evidence, and long-term support.
The Need How Lynx Helps You
Know what is in the product Generate, ingest, manage, and monitor SBOMs across releases
Understand what is vulnerable Match CVEs to product-specific software and reduce irrelevant noise
Keep the platform supportable Maintain Linux OS baselines, kernels, BSPs, drivers, and release branches
Build in security controls Implement secure boot, signed updates, encryption, hardening, and update integrity
Move from findings to fixes Bring in embedded engineers for remediation, patching, integration, and sustainment
Prove what you did Track decisions, produce evidence, and support customer or compliance reviews

Lynx turns Fragmented Linux Risk into Lifecycle Assurance

Lynx connects the work that usually gets handled in fragments: SBOMs, CVEs, BSP maintenance, security controls, patching, release evidence, and long-term support.

Know what is in the product

Generate, ingest, manage, and monitor SBOMs across releases.

Understand what is vulnerable

Match CVEs to product-specific software and reduce irrelevant noise.

Keep the platform supportable

Maintain Linux OS baselines, kernels, BSPs, drivers, and release branches.

Build in security controls

Implement secure boot, signed updates, encryption, hardening, and update integrity.

Move from findings to fixes

Bring in embedded engineers for remediation, patching, integration, and sustainment.

Prove what you did

Track decisions, produce evidence, and support customer or compliance reviews.

Start with the Risk Already Causing Pain

SCA, SBOM, CVE

Vigiles: SBOM + CVE Operations

For teams that need to know what is in every image, which vulnerabilities apply, what changed between releases, and what evidence they can give customers.

Vigiles turns SBOMs and CVEs into a repeatable product security workflow – so vulnerability management is tied to the software you actually ship.
See Vigiles for Embedded Linux
Linux Lifecycle Support

Long-Term OS + BSP Maintenance

For teams that need to keep embedded Linux platforms secure and supportable after launch.

Lynx helps maintain OS baselines, kernels, BSPs, drivers, security patches, build systems, and release branches so fielded products do not become unsupported products.
Review Your Maintenance Burden
Secure The Device

Secure by Design Implementation

For teams that need platform security built into the product, not bolted on after architecture freeze.

Lynx helps implement secure boot, signed updates, rollback protection, encrypted storage, kernel hardening, service isolation, and other platform security capabilities.
Build Security Into the Platform
Unblock the Roadmap

Embedded Linux Engineering Services

For teams that have platform work blocking the roadmap.

Lynx engineers help with board bring-up, BSP customization, kernel work, driver development, migration, security remediation, release engineering, and long-term sustainment.
Talk Through a Platform Bottleneck

Embedded Linux Does Not Behave Like Enterprise Software

Yocto layers. Buildroot configurations. Vendor SDKs. Custom kernels. Backported patches. Board-specific packages. Binary components. Long-life hardware. Multiple product branches. Fielded devices. Limited update windows.

Lynx works in that reality.

 

 

Lifecycle Assurance Changes What Your Team Can Prove

Before After
SBOMs are generated only when someone asks SBOMs are maintained across releases
CVE triage is manual and noisy CVEs are matched to product-specific software
BSP knowledge lives with one or two engineers BSP and OS maintenance follow a controlled process
Patch decisions are scattered across tickets and spreadsheets Remediation decisions are tracked and defensible
Secure boot and update security are deferred Platform security features are designed-in, tested, and documented
Customer security reviews trigger emergency work Customer evidence is easier to produce
Maintenance is reactive Maintenance becomes part of the product strategy
Long-term support is unclear Ownership is defined before risk accumulates

Embedded Linux Does Not Behave Like Enterprise Software

Yocto layers. Buildroot configurations. Vendor SDKs. Custom kernels. Backported patches. Board-specific packages. Binary components. Long-life hardware. Multiple product branches. Fielded devices. Limited update windows.

Lynx works in that reality.

 

 

Lifecycle Assurance Changes What Your Team Can Prove

Instead of generating SBOMs only when someone asks...

Maintain SBOMs across releases.

Instead of manual, noisy CVE triage...

Match CVEs to product-specific software.

Instead of BSP knowledge living with one or two engineers...

Put BSP and OS maintenance into a controlled process.

Instead of patch decisions scattered across tickets and spreadsheets...

Track remediation decisions in a way that is defensible.

Instead of deferring secure boot and update security...

Implement, test, and document platform security features.

Instead of customer security reviews triggering emergency work...

Make customer evidence easier to produce.

Instead of reactive maintenance...

Make maintenance part of the product strategy.

Instead of unclear long-term support...

Define ownership before risk accumulates.

Another Dashboard Will Not Patch Your BSP

Knowing what might be vulnerable is only the first step.

Your team still has to determine what applies, backport patches, maintain release branches, implement security controls, document decisions, and support products already in the field.

Lynx helps close the gap between finding risk and owning it.

 

Stylized embedded Linux processor on a circuit board showing lifecycle maintenance and security signals around a connected device platform.

Another Dashboard Will Not Patch Your BSP

Knowing what might be vulnerable is only the first step.

Your team still has to determine what applies, backport patches, maintain release branches, implement security controls, document decisions, and support products already in the field.

Lynx helps close the gap between finding risk and owning it.

 

 

Ship Linux You Can Stand Behind For Years

Lynx helps you build, secure, maintain, and prove the platform your product depends on – from first boot through long-term field support.

Talk to an Embedded Linux Expert