Canonical’s Ubuntu Professional, a Linux safety upkeep subscription service protecting hundreds of purposes and toolchains within the open-source ecosystem, is usually obtainable as of January 26.
Launched in beta in October, Ubuntu Professional helps customers of Linux desktops and servers get CVE (frequent vulnerabilities and exposures) patches, harden their methods at scale, and keep compliant with requirements reminiscent of FedRAMP, HIPPA, PCI-DSS. Ubuntu Professional covers an extra 23,000 packages past the principle OS, offering safety towards vital, excessive, and chosen medium CVEs for purposes and toolchains starting from Ansible and Apache Tomcat to Node.js, Puppet, PowerDNS, Redis, Rust, and WordPress.
The usual Ubuntu Professional subscription covers safety updates for all packages within the Ubuntu Most important and Ubuntu Universe repositories. Ubuntu Professional prices $25 per yr per workstation and $500 per yr per server. Private subscriptions for as much as 5 machines can be found free. Subscriptions can be found at ubuntu.com/professional/subscribe with a 30-day free trial.
Ubuntu Professional is out there for each Ubuntu LTS launch from 16.04 LTS, and is already in manufacturing for large-scale prospects. Along with providing safety patches, Ubuntu Professional contains instruments for compliance administration in regulated and audited environments.
As well as, Ubuntu Safety Information permits best-in-class hardening and compliance requirements reminiscent of CIS benchmark and DISA-STIG profiles, the corporate stated. Ubuntu customers can entry FIPS-certified cryptographic packages wanted for all federal businesses in addition to organizations working underneath compliance with HIPPA, FedRAMP, and PCI-DSS.
Automated patching at scale is enabled by way of the Panorama system administration instrument. Additionally featured is Livepatch, which patches vital and high-severity kernel vulnerabilities at runtime, minimizing unplanned reboots.
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