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Blog posts tagged
"Security"


Carlos Bravo
15 September 2022

Why Enterprises Choose Canonical Ubuntu on AWS

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to partner with AWS and feature on this week’s episode of AWS on Air. Watch us live on September 16, at 12pm PT. As the publisher of the Linux distribution Ubuntu, Canonical support, secure, and manage Ubuntu infrastructure and devices for thousands of businesses. Ubuntu runs from cloud to edge. It is ...


Rajan Patel
30 August 2022

FIPS certified vs compliant: what’s safer?

Cloud and server Article

Minimise risk by treating the FIPS standard as a baseline, and going above and beyond the baseline to mitigate risk by applying security patches. ...


Canonical
16 August 2022

Microsoft and Canonical announce native .NET availability in Ubuntu 22.04 hosts and containers

Apps Article

.NET developers are now able to install the ASP.NET and .NET SDK and runtimes from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with a single “apt install” command Canonical releases new, ultra-small OCI-compliant appliance images, without a shell or package manager, for both the .NET 6 LTS and ASP.NET runtimes Microsoft and Canonical are collaborating to secure the ...


Alex Murray
27 June 2022

What’s new in Security for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Ubuntu Security

Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the latest long term support release of Ubuntu, one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions. As a Long Term Support release, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will be supported for 10 years, receiving both extended security updates and kernel livepatching via an Ubuntu Advantage subscription (which is free for persona ...


dbeamonte
15 June 2022

What you’re missing out if you don’t try Ubuntu Core 22

Internet of Things Article

Ubuntu Core is the operating system for IoT and edge Ubuntu Core, the Ubuntu flavour optimised for IoT and edge devices, has a new version available. With a 2-year release cadence, every new release is both an exciting and challenging milestone. Ubuntu Core is based on Ubuntu. It is open source, long-term supported (LTS), binary ...


Valentin Viennot
8 June 2022

Canonical at the Open Source Summit North America 2022

Community Article

The heart of open source will be beating in Austin and streamed online for the Open Source Summit North America, taking place on 20-25 June 2022. Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders. It’s a great venue to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and take open sour ...


ROS 2 Humble security, a tour of the new and improved features

Robotics Article

We’re excited about the recent release of ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill, a Long Term Support (LTS) distro, supported for the next five years. ROS 2 releases come out on every even-numbered year together with the LTS release of Ubuntu, this time with Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish).  Earlier this week, we shared a step-by-step guide to ...


Cerolia Kim
18 May 2022

Canonical at AWS Summit Washington 2022

Cloud and server Article

Meet our public sector team from May 23-25 at Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC Our collaboration wth AWS has started in 2012 making 2022 the 10th year of working together to deliver premium open source solutions in the cloud. With Public Sector designation, our goal is to continue supporting AWS providing security an ...


Massimiliano Gori
4 March 2022

Ubuntu Pro 20.04 FIPS is now available for AWS, Azure and GCP

FIPS Article

The Ubuntu Pro FIPS profile is now available on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud ...


Massimiliano Gori
21 February 2022

Building and running FIPS containers on Ubuntu 18.04

Security Article

Build and run Ubuntu containers that comply with the US and Canada government FIPS140-2 data protection standard. ...


Canonical
18 January 2022

Ubuntu introduces the Ubuntu Security Guide to ease DISA-STIG compliance

Ubuntu Article

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 ...


Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
18 January 2022

CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

Cloud and server Article

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 ...