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"USG"

Henry Coggill
6 June 2025

What is CMMC compliance?

Hardening Ubuntu tech blog

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
20 March 2025

Hardening automation for CIS benchmarks now available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Hardening Ubuntu tech blog

We’re pleased to release Ubuntu Security Guide profiles for CIS benchmarks. ...

Henry Coggill
18 April 2024

DISA publishes STIG for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

DISA STIG Ubuntu tech blog

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 are delighted that ...

Henry Coggill
3 November 2023

Meet Cyber Essentials requirements with Ubuntu Pro

Hardening Ubuntu tech blog

Cyber Essentials is an increasingly important security standard within the UK that allows organisations to demonstrate to their customers that they operate their business in a secure and trustworthy manner. Achieving the Cyber Essentials certification helps businesses win new customers and  stand out amongst their peers. It is a requireme ...

Canonical
18 January 2022

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

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

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’s track rec ...

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
18 January 2022

CIS benchmark compliance: Introducing the Ubuntu Security Guide

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 number of rules lead ...