Turaya is a security framework, providing strong isolation and multilaterally secure policy enforcement of legacy applications.

Turaya is based on the PERSEUS Security Framework and on the L4-Mikrokernel. The Turaya framework deploys:

 

• security services to implement new and innovative business-models, e.g., secure user interface, trusted storage, and policy management.
• virtualization support allowing an efficient migration of existing operating systems,
• an abstraction layer allowing the execution on different platforms such as mikrokernels or hypervisors, and
• hardware functionalities provided by Trusted Computing such as TPMs.

Turaya addresses the technical and business challenges with "win-win" strategies that provide competitive advantages for the following business models:

• Provider of digital content benefit since they can run highly-innovative business models on common of the shelf hard- and software while at the same time they will get a wide-ranging and econmically reasonable protection of their content.
• Vendors benefit by using a trustworthy, standardized platform based on open standards. The consortium guarantees a non-discriminatory access to the platform. Turaya enables them to offer trustworthy applications to their customers without maintaining own complex developments.
• Enterprises benefit from running secure information workflow on their distributed networked systems. In contrast to todays non-trustworthy systems, in particular insecure operating systems, the Turaya platform enforces security policies in a distributed environemnt.
• End-user benefit from running trustworthy information workflow on their personal systems. Turaya helps them to protect sensitive applications and data according to the end-user policies. In particular, users should keep control over their systems.

Thus, Turaya helps towards more effective and economical workflows.