Blog posts tagged
"DISA STIG"

13 posts

Henry Coggill
6 June 2025

What is CMMC compliance?

Article Hardening

CMMC version 2.0 came into effect on December 26, 2023, and is designed to ensure adherence to rigorous cybersecurity policies and practices within the public sector and amongst wider industry partners.

Henry Coggill
6 June 2025

Henry Coggill
14 March 2025

What is System Hardening? Essential Checklists from OS to Applications

Article CIS Benchmarks

Hardening a system aims to decrease its exposure to make it difficult to hack, and to lessen the potential collateral damage in the event of a compromise.

Henry Coggill
14 March 2025

Marina Khachatryan
15 August 2024

Meet our Public Sector team at Technet Augusta 2024

Article Ubuntu

We’re excited to announce our participation in Technet Augusta 2024 from 19 to 22 August.

Marina Khachatryan
15 August 2024

Henry Coggill
24 June 2024

Meet DISA-STIG compliance requirements for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with USG

Article DISA STIG

DISA, the Defense Information Systems Agency, recently published their Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in April 2024. We’re pleased to now release the Ubuntu Security Guide profile to enable customers to automatically harden and audit their Ubuntu 22.04 LTS systems for the STIG. What...

Henry Coggill
24 June 2024

Henry Coggill
18 April 2024

DISA publishes STIG for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Article DISA STIG

Introduction DISA, the Defense Information Systems Agency, has published their Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The STIG is free for the public to download from the DOD Cyber Exchange. Canonical has been working with DISA since we published Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to draft this STIG, and we...

Henry Coggill
18 April 2024

Marina Khachatryan
2 November 2023

Meet the Canonical Federal and DOD team at Alamo Ace 2023

Article DISA STIG

Find us at the booth #54 or join a special joint session on November 14th at 2:15 PM.

Marina Khachatryan
2 November 2023

Henry Coggill
29 June 2023

Managing security vulnerabilities and compliance for U.S. Government with Ubuntu Pro

Article Hardening

Maintaining a compliant IT ecosystem is a major undertaking, as each regulation brings a host of specialized requirements. And dealing with the never-ending stream of security vulnerabilities that require patching only adds to this task.

Henry Coggill
29 June 2023

Massimiliano Gori
22 April 2023

US Public Sector regulatory compliance with Ubuntu Pro and AWS GovCloud

Article Security

Ubuntu Pro is available for AWS GovCloud, where it combines comprehensive open-source security with the aforementioned AWS compliance features.

Massimiliano Gori
22 April 2023

Lech Sandecki
19 February 2023

Cloud computing security and compliance with Ubuntu Pro

Article Security

Cloud computing security coverage for the operating system and the entire collection of software packages for 10 years with Ubuntu.

Lech Sandecki
19 February 2023

Cerolia Kim
18 May 2022

Canonical at AWS Summit Washington 2022

Article Cloud and server

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...

Cerolia Kim
18 May 2022

Canonical
18 January 2022

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

Article Ubuntu

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
18 January 2022

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
18 January 2022

CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

Article Cloud and server

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...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
18 January 2022

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
14 April 2021

DISA has released the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS STIG benchmark

Article Security

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...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
14 April 2021