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Henry Coggill
5 February 2025

FIPS 140-3 certified modules now available for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Article FIPS

New deployments should take advantage of the new FIPS 140-3 certified modules available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Henry Coggill
5 February 2025

Henry Coggill
4 February 2025

The role of FIPS 140-3 in the latest FedRAMP guidance

Article FIPS

Good news in the US federal compliance space. The latest FedRAMP policy relaxes past restrictions that prevented organizations from applying critical security updates.

Henry Coggill
4 February 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
7 December 2023

Ubuntu 22.04 FIPS 140-3 modules available for preview

Article FIPS

Canonical has been working with our testing lab partner, atsec information security, to prepare the cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) for certification with NIST under the new FIPS 140-3 standard. The modules passed all of atsec’s algorithm validation tests and are in the queue awaiting NIST’s...

Henry Coggill
7 December 2023

Carlos Bravo
20 November 2023

Canonical at AWS re:Invent – What you need to know!

Article AI

Though the Las Vegas Grand Prix has come to a close, the Canonical team is gearing up for the next big race at AWS re:Invent, slated for November 27-December 1, 2023. After a thrilling event in 2022, we’re excited and proud to be a sponsor once again in 2023. Learn more about the ways that

Carlos Bravo
20 November 2023

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

Rajan Patel
13 September 2023

Deploy fully configured VMs in minutes on Google Cloud, using gcloud CLI and cloud-init

Article Cloud and server

Make reusable deployment templates for Landscape and other applications

Rajan Patel
13 September 2023

Rajan Patel
8 September 2023

Manage FIPS-enabled Linux machines at scale with Landscape 23.03

Article Cloud and server

You or your organisation are tasked with hardening your workstations and servers, where do you begin? Installing Ubuntu and applying all the security patches is a good place to start, but what else is needed? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a cybersecurity agency established in 1988, has...

Rajan Patel
8 September 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

Valentin Viennot
2 June 2023

Docker container security: demystifying FIPS-enabled containers with Ubuntu Pro

Article container

In today’s rapidly changing digital environment, the significance of robust Docker container security measures cannot be overstated. Even the containerised layer is subject to compliance standards, which raise security concerns and compliance requirements.

Valentin Viennot
2 June 2023

Carlos Bravo
23 May 2023

Ubuntu Pro is now available on Graviton (ARM) instances

Article Cloud and server

We are happy to announce that Ubuntu Pro is now available on Graviton (ARM) instances of all generations. You can now launch or upgrade Ubuntu Graviton instances to Ubuntu Pro on AWS EC2. Why is this good? Ubuntu Pro: Improved Security Coverage Ubuntu Pro enables your company to freely consume third-party open source...

Carlos Bravo
23 May 2023

Carlos Bravo
28 April 2023

Upgrade your existing Ubuntu LTS instances to Ubuntu Pro in AWS

Article Cloud and server

In April 2023, Amazon Web Services (AWS) released a new functionality that allows users running Ubuntu LTS to upgrade their instances to Ubuntu Pro with just a few clicks. This upgrade provides additional security features, including patching for universe packages, extended security management for an additional five...

Carlos Bravo
28 April 2023

Carlos Bravo
25 April 2023

Ubuntu Pro is now part of the AWS EC2 console

Article Cloud and server

We are happy to announce that Ubuntu Pro is now available as a native product on AWS. You can now enjoy premium enhanced security coverage for your Ubuntu machines by launching Ubuntu Pro instances from the EC2 console with no additional requirements, subscriptions or long term commitments. Why is this good? Ubuntu Pro...

Carlos Bravo
25 April 2023

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