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Today, Red Hat warned users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development versions because of a backdoor found in the latest XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries. "No versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are affected. We have reports and evidence of the injections successfully building in xz 5.6.x versions built for Debian unstable."
The U.K.'s position as a financial services hub puts it ahead in enterprise-wide IT automation, says Red Hat. Red Hat's report, Thriving through change with enterprise-wide IT automation, surveyed 1,200 IT leaders in the aforementioned four countries about the role of automation in their businesses and the challenges they faced in adopting new technologies.
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Red Hat is backing a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that aims to improve the security of containers in Kubernetes clusters by running them inside hardware-enforced enclaves. A company blog post says Red Hat is investing in Confidential Containers, which is a relatively new project from the CNCF-backed Confidential Computing Consortium.
Compliance has become so demanding in cloud deployments that many organizations have moved from manual security checks to procedures based on continuous automated monitoring and compliance, notes Lucy Huh Kerner, Red Hat's Director of Security Global Strategy and Evangelism. Continuous security and compliance are how these issues can be prevented for better security and not merely for "Check-the-box" compliance.
Qualys announced it has collaborated with Red Hat to drive greater security for both the container and host operating system for Red Hat OpenShift. The Cloud Agent for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS on OpenShift combined with the Qualys solution for Container Security provides continuous discovery of packages and vulnerabilities for the complete Red Hat OpenShift stack.
Customers looking to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyperconverged infrastructure will be able to use a cloud platform from Nutanix, which includes both Nutanix AOS and AHV. Nutanix Cloud Platform is now a preferred choice for HCI for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift. Nutanix AHV is now a Red Hat certified hypervisor enabling full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift on Nutanix Cloud Platform.
Red Hat announced the renewal of the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 security validation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2. With this validation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2, many of Red Hat's open hybrid cloud offerings also retain the FIPS 140-2 certification as layered products building on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2's cryptography modules.
Providing a powerful foundation to develop and connect diverse workloads across the hybrid cloud, Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 helps organizations accelerate the creation of new cloud-native applications without abandoning existing environments and IT investments. As new customer goals continue to create room for market innovation, Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 provides organizations a common foundation to more consistently develop, deploy and run a hybrid mix of applications and services.
New Linux admins need to know how to give and take sudo privileges from users. Jack Wallen shows you how on both Ubuntu- and Red Hat-based Linux distributions.