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title: Blog posts tagged "Security Hardening"
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# Blog posts tagged "Security Hardening"

#### [What is Application Security (AppSec)?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-application-security-appsec)

Application security (or AppSec, for short) is a broad term that refers to all of the tools, actions, and processes that an organization uses to protect its applications against vulnerabilities across the entirety of its life cycle. Application security has one objective: to find weaknesses in your applications and systems that could be a

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Hardening

#### [Kubescape brings a new level of security to Charmed Kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/kubescape-brings-a-new-level-of-security-to-charmed-kubernetes)

The popular open-source platform Kubescape by ARMO has been recently announced as a fully managed operator called a Charm for Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes distribution. This collaboration between Canonical and ARMO is exciting for the solution it enables for end users, ultimately resulting in hardened and more secure Kubernetes environm

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Cloud and server

#### [Canonical launches free personal Ubuntu Pro subscriptions for up to five machines](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-pro-beta-release)

Ubuntu Pro, the expanded security maintenance and compliance subscription, is now offered in public beta for data centres and workstations. Canonical will provide a free tier for personal and small-scale commercial use in line with the company’s community commitment and mission to make open source more easily consumable by everyone. “Sinc

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Security

#### [Ubuntu introduces the Ubuntu Security Guide to ease DISA-STIG compliance](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-introduces-the-ubuntu-security-guide-to-ease-disa-stig-compliance)

January 17th: London, UK – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds, now offers the Ubuntu Security Guide tooling for compliance with the DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The new automated tooling builds on Canonical’s track rec

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Company

#### [CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide](https://canonical.com/blog/cis-security-compliance-usg)

The CIS benchmark has hundreds of configuration recommendations, so hardening and auditing a Linux system manually can be very tedious. Every administrator of systems that need to comply with that benchmark would wish that this process is easily usable and automatable. Why is that? Manual configuration of such a large number of rules lead

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Cloud and server

#### [CIS-Harden your Ubuntu in Google Cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/make-your-ubuntu-cis-hardened-in-gcp)

CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) is the authority backing CIS Benchmarks. Ubuntu Pro is entitled to be CIS compliant and packaged with CIS toolings from Canonical. Let’s SSH into your Ubuntu Pro virtual machine. If you haven’t yet upgrade your

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Cloud and server

#### [DISA has released the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS STIG benchmark](https://canonical.com/blog/disa-has-released-the-ubuntu-20-04-lts-stig-benchmark)

The Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) are developed by the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) for the U.S. Department of Defense. They are configuration guidelines for hardening systems to improve security. They contain technical guidance which when implemented, locks down software and systems to mitigate malicious att

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Security