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ijlal-loutfi
22 February 2023

Linux security: your questions, answered

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At Canonical, we often get questions about open-source security and of course, Linux security is a common topic. Based on a recent webinar hosted by our security team and an accompanying blog post, we put together the most common questions we receive. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it should give you

ijlal-loutfi
22 February 2023

ijlal-loutfi
13 December 2022

What’s confidential, generally available, and open source? It’s Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 on Microsoft Azure!

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On behalf of all Canonical teams, I am happy to announce the general availability of Ubuntu 22.04 Confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure! They are part of the Microsoft Azure DCasv5/ECasv5 series that leverage the latest security extensions of the third generation of AMD CPUs, Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure...

ijlal-loutfi
13 December 2022

ijlal-loutfi
31 October 2022

Confidential computing in public clouds: isolation and remote attestation explained

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In the first part of this blog series, we discussed the run-time (in)security challenge, which can leave your code and data vulnerable to attacks by both the privileged system software of the public cloud infrastructure, as well as its administrators. We also introduced the concept of trusted execution environments and...

ijlal-loutfi
31 October 2022

ijlal-loutfi
11 October 2022

What is confidential computing? A high-level explanation for CISOs

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Privacy enhancing technologies and confidential computing are two of my favorite topics to talk about! So much so that I am writing this blog post on a sunny Saturday afternoon. But wait, what’s that I hear you murmuring? “What is confidential computing? And how does it affect me?” Those are two very good questions. Before

ijlal-loutfi
11 October 2022

ijlal-loutfi
28 July 2022

Let’s get confidential! Canonical Ubuntu Confidential VMs are now generally available on Microsoft Azure

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On behalf of all Canonical teams, I am happy to announce the general availability of Ubuntu Confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure! They are part of the Microsoft Azure DCasv5/ECasv5 series, and only take a few clicks to enable and use. Ubuntu 20.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to support Confidential VMs on

ijlal-loutfi
28 July 2022

Kris Sharma
2 May 2022

Confidential Computing and financial services cloud

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Data security in the cloud – a business imperative Cloud computing has been transforming financial IT infrastructure into a utility allowing financial institutions (FIs) to access computing resources on-demand letting FIs offload costs and effort of setting-up and managing their own on-premises infrastructure, improving...

Kris Sharma
2 May 2022

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
16 December 2021

How we designed Ubuntu Pro for Confidential Computing on Azure

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Not all data is destined to be public. Moving workloads that handle secret or private data from an on-premise setup to a public cloud introduces a new attack surface with different risks. As the public cloud environment shares its hardware infrastructure, a flaw in the clouds’ isolation mechanisms can be detrimental to...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
16 December 2021

regis paquette
14 April 2020

IBM Z delivers a Trusted Execution Environment with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and new single frame models

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In September 2019, IBM released z15 and LinuxONE III, the most secure cloud environment in the market featuring pervasive encryption built-in at its core with Ubuntu. This offered a solid foundation to launch hardened security offerings for the mainframe across platforms such as MongoDB, Postgres, IDAA, IBM Cloud...

regis paquette
14 April 2020

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