--- title: How to ensure the ongoing security and compliance of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ description: Ubuntu Security Manager, Joe McManus will cover everything you need to know about the new support phase for 14.04 LTS, Trusty Tahr, in this webinar. url: https://canonical.com/blog/ensure-ongoing-security-compliance-ubuntu-14-04?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 7 March 2019 # How to ensure the ongoing security and compliance of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ [14.04](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/14-04) [Compliance](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/compliance) [ESM](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/esm) [Extended Security Maintenance](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/extended-security-maintenance) [Security](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/security) [Trusty Tahr](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/trusty-tahr) [webinar](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/webinar) --- Share the article Ubuntu 14.04 LTS the ‘Trusty Tahr’ is a reliable and intuitive release, adopted by many enterprises for cloud infrastructure when released in April 2014. However, as 14.04 reaches the end of its five-year, Standard Security Maintenance, LTS window in April 2019, support for the OS is transitioning into a new phase – Extended Security Maintenance (ESM). With this transition to ESM, Ubuntu OS users and organisations are encouraged to upgrade to a later release in order to gain access to the latest and greatest features of Ubuntu. Since the release of Ubuntu 14.04, there have been two subsequent Ubuntu LTS releases: Ubuntu 16.04 ‘Xenial Xerus’ and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ‘Bionic Beaver’. Initially launched with the transition of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, ESM brings critical security patches beyond the LTS date of Ubuntu releases. The offering allows organisations to safely and securely plan application upgrades in a failsafe environment, a factor that is often cited as the main value for its adoption. And for those who cannot upgrade at this stage due to complications and cost, ESM protects this release from potential vulnerabilities until an organisation can upgrade. The availability of ESM for Ubuntu 14.04 means that the transition of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr to ESM in April should not negatively impact an organisation’s security and compliance efforts. On Tuesday, 12 March, Ubuntu Security Manager, Joe McManus will cover everything you need to know about this new support phase in our 14.04-focused webinar, sharing how to achieve secure and compliants systems with ESM. In this webinar you will learn: * What the transition to Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS means * Guidance on updating 14.04 LTS systems to 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS * Q&A with Ubuntu Security Manager, Joe McManus [Register for the webinar](https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/349275?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=CY19_DC_UA_WBN_ESM14-04_Blog) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance](https://canonical.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance) Canonical is now part of the Open Secure AI Alliance, announced by NVIDIA with partners across cloud computing, cybersecurity, enterprise software, open source foundations, and... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 28 August 2026 [### Januscape vulnerability CVE-2026-53359 mitigations available](https://canonical.com/blog/januscape-linux-vulnerability-mitigations-available) Introduction A local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel was publicly disclosed on July 6, 2026. The vulnerability was assigned CVE ID... [seth-arnold](https://canonical.com/blog/author/seth-arnold) 11 July 2026 [### DirtyClone Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability fixes available](https://canonical.com/blog/dirtyclone-linux-vulnerability-fixes-available) On June 25, 2026, JFrog published their research into CVE-2026-43503, referring to the vulnerability as DirtyClone. The vulnerability had previously been responsibly disclosed... [Luci Stanescu](https://canonical.com/blog/author/lucistanescu) 1 July 2026 [### pedit COW kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations](https://canonical.com/blog/pedit-cow-linux-vulnerability-fixes-available) Mitigations are available for the Linux vulnerability with CVE ID CVE-2026-46331. The CVE ID was assigned on June 16 2026 and highlighted as a local privilege escalation (LPE)... [Luci Stanescu](https://canonical.com/blog/author/lucistanescu) 1 July 2026