Blog posts tagged
"Security certifications and compliance"

17 posts

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

Massimiliano Gori
19 February 2023

Air gapped network: FIPS 140 compliance with Ubuntu

Article FIPS

Set up secure air gapped network and automate hardening, patch management and standards like CIS, DISA-STIG and FIPS 140-2 certifications on Ubuntu.

Massimiliano Gori
19 February 2023

Canonical
26 January 2023

Ubuntu Pro enters general availability

Article Security

Ubuntu Pro, Canonical’s comprehensive subscription for secure open source and compliance, is now generally available. Ubuntu Pro, released in beta in October last year, helps teams get timely CVE patches, harden their systems at scale and remain compliant with regimes such as FedRAMP, HIPAA and PCI-DSS. The subscription...

Canonical
26 January 2023

Rajan Patel
30 August 2022

FIPS certified vs compliant: what’s safer?

Article Cloud and server

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

Rajan Patel
30 August 2022

Valentin Viennot
25 May 2022

Create FIPS-enabled Ubuntu container images with 10-year security updates

Article Apps

Canonical’s UA and Pro customers can now fully benefit from their subscriptions directly in containerised environments and pipelines. The new UA client release (27.7+) makes it easier to enable FIPS mode in Ubuntu containers. It also automatically signs up CI/CD builds for 10-year security updates to never worry about...

Valentin Viennot
25 May 2022

Hugo Huang
9 March 2022

Enable FIPS on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu Pro FIPS images are now available in Google Cloud. Find out more about why you need a FIPS-compliant environment and how you can be FIPS compliant in Google Cloud.

Hugo Huang
9 March 2022

Massimiliano Gori
4 March 2022

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

Article FIPS

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

Massimiliano Gori
4 March 2022

Rajan Patel
21 February 2022

Monitor Ubuntu Advantage FIPS configurations

Article Security

There are multiple ways to enable, manage, and monitor FIPS on Ubuntu. You can use the UA Client to enable FIPS, and configure Landscape to audit FIPS configurations in your entire Ubuntu estate.

Rajan Patel
21 February 2022

Massimiliano Gori
21 February 2022

Building and running FIPS containers on Ubuntu 18.04

Article Security

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

Massimiliano Gori
21 February 2022

Hugo Huang
22 November 2021

FIPS on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

In August 2016, the United States government announced a new federal source-code policy, which mandates that at least 20% of custom source code developed by or for any agency of the federal government must be released as open-source software (OSS). The memo of this policy also states that the Federal Government spends...

Hugo Huang
22 November 2021

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
6 September 2021

How to develop Linux applications for FIPS on Ubuntu

Article Apps

This is the second article in our series regarding FIPS 140 and Ubuntu. The first part of this series, this article, covers running FIPS 140 applications on Ubuntu while this part is focused on the development of FIPS 140 applications on Ubuntu. What is FIPS and why should a developer care? Developing applications for...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
6 September 2021

Canonical
17 August 2021

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS drives high security and regulated workloads with its FIPS 140-2 certification

Article Canonical announcements

Austin, Texas – Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds has received the FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for its cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, including OpenSSL 1.1.1. This certification is built on Canonical’s track record in designing Ubuntu for high security...

Canonical
17 August 2021

Canonical
11 August 2021

FIPS 140-2 certification for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS!

Article Canonical announcements

Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds has received the FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for its cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, including OpenSSL 1.1.1. This certification is built on Canonical’s track record in designing Ubuntu for high security and regulated...

Canonical
11 August 2021

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
26 July 2021

Running FIPS 140 workloads on Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

This is the first article in a two-article series regarding FIPS 140 and Ubuntu. The first part of this series, this article, covers running FIPS 140 applications on Ubuntu while the second part, is covering the development of FIPS applications on Ubuntu. What is FIPS and why do I need it? Even though cryptography is

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
26 July 2021

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