Category: Red Hat Security

4 use cases for AI in cyber security

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being introduced to just about every facet of life these days. AI is being used to develop code, communicate with customers, and write in various media. Cyber security, particularly product security is another place AI can…

Understanding the Red Hat security impact scale

Red Hat uses a four-point impact scale to classify security issues affecting our products. Have you ever asked yourself what it takes and what the requirements are for each point of the scale? We will talk through the highlights of…

Introducing OpenShift Service Mesh 2.5

We are pleased to announce the release of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.5. OpenShift Service Mesh is based on the Istio and Kiali projects, and is included as part of all subscription levels of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift Service…

Confidential Containers for Financial Services on Public Cloud

Public clouds provide geo resilience in addition to being cost-effective when compared to on-premise deployments. Regulated industries such as the Financial Services Industry (FSI) traditionally have been unable to take advantage of public clouds since FSI is highly regulated from…

eBPF wrapped 2023

When it comes to open-source innovation, Red Hat is committed to pushing technological boundaries and enhancing the capabilities of cutting-edge solutions. As we look back at 2023, we’ll discuss Red Hat’s role in advancing Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology,…

Red Hat and RISC-V: To the far edge and beyond

Red Hat has always been an advocate of growth at the intersection of open source and computing solutions–which is exactly where RISC-V can be found. RISC-V is one of those technologies where the future is both evident and inevitable. By…

Runtime security deep dive: Ask An OpenShift Admin episode 116

Runtime pertains to the active execution of a system, which may encompass infrastructure, applications operating within containers, or local systems. Runtime security refers to the security measures implemented while the application is actively running. This is especially important, as revealed…

DISA STIG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is now available

According to IDC, Linux operating system (OS) environments are expected to grow from 78% in 2021 to 82% in 2026 across physical, virtual, and cloud deployments. Fundamental to that growth is continued assurance that Linux OSs can provide organizations with…

DISA STIG for Red Hat OpenShift is now available

To help government agencies and regulated industries embrace cloud-native innovation at scale while enhancing their security posture, we are pleased to announce the publication of the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for Red…

Improving containerization security with Red Hat OpenShift

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, organizations increasingly embrace containerization to achieve greater scalability, portability, and efficiency in their application deployments. While containerization has its benefits, it also can present IT security challenges that must be addressed to improve the…

The State of Edge Security Report

Edge computing has grown from being a niche use case in a handful of industries to offering a major opportunity for enterprises across industries to spread compute power around the world (or universe, as in the case of workloads in…

Confidential containers with AMD SEV

Based on Kata Containers, the Confidential Containers (CoCo) project is a community solution to enable hardware technologies for virtualized memory encryption in container environments through attestation. CoCo SEV enables an encrypted container launch feature by utilizing a remote key broker…

Red Hat: Building a quantum-ready world

As the world’s leading provider of enterprise-ready open source software, Red Hat is uniquely positioned to help prepare the widely varying users of its embedded platform cryptography for the transition to a post-quantum world. In fact, the US Government calls…

Confidential computing: 5 support technologies to explore

This article is the last in a six-part series (see my previous blog) presenting various usage models for Confidential Computing, a set of technologies designed to protect data in use. In this article, I explore interesting support technologies under active…

FIRST Announces CVSS v4.0 Public Preview

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is well known in the world of product security, development and IT. “The Common Vulnerability Scoring System provides a way to capture the principal characteristics of a vulnerability and produce a numerical score reflecting…

Best practices for patch management

As a Solution Architect, I’m often asked what Red Hat’s best practices are for patch management. In this article, I’m going to cut through the noise, linking to relevant work and materials where appropriate, to offer some focused guidance around…

Introduction to confidential virtual machines

In this post, we will present confidential virtual machines (CVMs) as one of the use cases of confidential computing as well as the security benefits expected from this emerging technology. We will focus on the high level requirements for the…

Attestation in confidential computing

This article is the second in a six-part series (see our previous blog), where we present various usage models for confidential computing, a set of technologies designed to protect data in use—for example using memory encryption—and the requirements to get…

Confidential computing primer

<p>This article is the first in a six-part series in which we present various usage models for <strong>confidential computing</strong>, a set of technologies designed to protect data in use—for example by using memory encryption—and the requirements to get the expected…

The future of Red Hat security data

<p>Red Hat security data is a central source of truth for Red Hat products regarding published, known vulnerabilities. The availability of accurate information in security data can help provide the correct risk assessment process in customers' vulnerability management programs, which…

The State of Kubernetes Security in 2023

<p>Despite Kubernetes still being a relatively young technology, adoption rates have soared over the past several years as the container orchestration platform has become the cornerstone for many digital transformation initiatives. Even as organizations settle in with their use of…

Deploying confidential containers on the public cloud

<p>In this article we will describe how Microsoft and Red Hat are collaborating in the open source community to show how Red Hat <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift">OpenShift</a> can be deployed on <a href="https://aka.ms/azurecc">Azure Confidential Computing</a> for providing confidential container capabilities to its…

Learn about Confidential Containers

<drupal-media data-align="center" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="86dcee13-494e-41e0-a1ed-419306586e5d"></drupal-media> <h3>What are Confidential Containers?</h3> <p><strong><a href="https://github.com/confidential-containers">Confidential Containers</a></strong> (CoCo) is a new sandbox project of the <a href="https://www.cncf.io/">Cloud Native Comput This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security Read the original article: Learn about Confidential Containers

DISA releases the first Ansible STIG

<p>As IT environments become more complex, especially as cloud-native technologies, cloud services and traditional hardware all interact to meet evolving business demands, automation remains a key organizational strategy. Automation helps manage and maintain operations at a greater scale, speed and…

Demystifying risk using CVEs and CVSS

<p>For some time now, the conversation around what poses risk in software vulnerabilities has been evolving. It has been gratifying to hear other voices amplifying what I, and generally Red Hat, have been saying for years: not all vulnerabilities in…

Red Hat OpenShift sandboxed containers for debugging with elevated privileges

<p>When debugging or tracing running workloads in <strong><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift">Red Hat OpenShift</a></strong> deployments, there will frequently be a need to run the workloads with elevated privileges. This is not possible or desirable in production deployments, however, due to the risks to…

Red Hat Shares – Security automation

<p><em>The Red Hat Shares newsletter helps IT leaders navigate the complicated world of IT―the open source way.</em></p> <div class="rc-cta-primary"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/email-preferences?newsletter=RH-shares&amp;intcmp=7013a0000034h0bAAA">Subscribe to Red Hat Shares</a></div> <hr /> <div class="rc-title-emphasis">FROM THE EDITOR</div> <h3>De This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security…

How to use Red Hat Insights malware detection service

<p>Did you know that <strong><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/insights">Red Hat Insights</a></strong> for <strong><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux">Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a></strong> (RHEL) can be used to help detect the presence of malware? This makes it more likely that you'll know when a RHEL system has sustained a…

Taking patch management to the next level with automation

<h3>Implementing the CISA known exploited vulnerability mandate with greater ease</h3> <p><br /> <img alt="" height="229" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/xGj9oBUjSLNwwGwJq9ZIrzXXkhqhmFUFuEzmO7_Zu1zGXT8_s8vBfnXCOE8arv0FJIDYRQJ9wdjymsY1mmzIWsuhELntj4oY1QdPY1FzL0xrnB56jMVXmw80nbXALoHtq3Z5ngkuBsOyjDt3820LNrtKXkvjUM5LW5tjPVQYbIvt_1ZROpZX0BAdqEFyNQ" width="357" /></p> <p><em>Source: <a href=&qu This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security Read the original article: Taking patch management to the next…

A Brief History of Cryptography

<p>Cryptology is a young science.</p> <p>Though it has been used for thousands of years to hide secret messages, systematic study of cryptology as a science (and perhaps an art) just started around one hundred years ago.</p> <p>The first known evidence…

Red Hat Insights malware detection service is now generally available

<p>Following <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/getting-started-red-hat-insights-malware-detection">the announcement of the beta of the Red Hat Insights malware detection service</a> in August, we are pleased to announce that this service is now generally available. The malware detection service is a monitoring and assessment tool that…

Automate like an expert with Ansible validated content

<p>During <strong><a href="https://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest">AnsibleFest 2022</a></strong>, we announced the launch of <strong>Ansible validated content</strong>. This new initiative is focused on delivering an expert-led approach for automating your platform portfolio across infrastructure, networking, cloud, security and edge use cases.</p> <p>Ansible validated content is…

Using system tags to enable extended security hardening recommendations

<p>Today we present a new way to use the <strong><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/insights">Red Hat Insights</a></strong> Advisor service by <a href="https://access.redhat.com/articles/6981482">using system tags</a> to enable extended security hardening recommendations.</p> <p>Not all systems are equal. For example, a web server and a workstation have…

Understanding the Confidential Containers Attestation Flow

<h2><span><span><span><span><span><span>Introduction to attestation</span></span></span></span></span></span></h2> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Attestation is a confidential computing keystone. With attestation, workload owners can fully assert the trustworthiness of the hardware and software This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security Read the original article: Understanding the Confidential Containers…

Red Hat OpenShift: How to create and integrate a private registry with stronger security capabilities

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>A private registry can be useful for storing Linux </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/containers"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>container images</span>&am This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security Read the original article: Red Hat OpenShift: How to create and integrate a private registry with stronger security capabilities

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft security update of November 2022

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>On November 8th, 2022, Microsoft released a series of security updates for various Windows operating systems to fix two security issues:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><a href="https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37966"&amp This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security Read the original article: Red Hat…

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft security update of November 2022

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>On November 8th, 2022, Microsoft released a series of security updates for various Windows operating systems to fix two security issues:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><a href="https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37966"&amp This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security Read the original article: Red Hat…

Cryptographic signatures for zip distributions

Red Hat’s products are distributed through numerous methods, including RPMs, ISOs and zip files. Over the past several months, we have been working across the organization to design and implement a plan to provide signatures for all zip file types…

Post-quantum cryptography: Hash-based signatures

Last quarter, I introduced the issue where our existing public key cryptography algorithms are vulnerable to a potentially new form of computers called quantum computers. In this article I introduce one of the better understood potential replacements: Hash-based signatures. This…

Service Preview of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service

Container and Kubernetes adoption brings the promise of faster application development and delivery at larger scales — however, it also brings with it new security challenges. Protecting cloud-native applications can require significant changes in how organizations approach IT security. They…

Cryptographic signatures for zip distributions

Red Hat’s products are distributed through numerous methods, including RPMs, ISOs and zip files. Over the past several months, we have been working across the organization to design and implement a plan to provide signatures for all zip file types…

Service Preview of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security Cloud Service

Container and Kubernetes adoption brings the promise of faster application development and delivery at larger scales — however, it also brings with it new security challenges. Protecting cloud-native applications can require significant changes in how organizations approach IT security. They…

Open source incident response solutions

Red Hat leads the tech industry’s cutting edge practices for the resolution of cybersecurity issues. Red Hat does this by providing relevant and accessible information and enabling the larger community to make well-informed decisions about security issues. This article has…

What is the Confidential Containers project?

Confidential Containers (CoCo) is a new sandbox project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that enables cloud-native confidential computing by taking advantage of a variety of hardware platforms and technologies. This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security…

Red Hat Shares ― Edge computing: Security

The Red Hat Shares newsletter helps IT leaders navigate the complicated world of IT―the open source way. This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security Read the original article: Red Hat Shares ― Edge computing: Security

Red Hat Shares ― Edge computing: Security

The Red Hat Shares newsletter helps IT leaders navigate the complicated world of IT―the open source way. This article has been indexed from Red Hat Security Read the original article: Red Hat Shares ― Edge computing: Security

Role-based access control for Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console

Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console uses role-based access controls (RBAC) to restrict network access to services and resources based on user roles.  Role permissions are either assigned or inherited through a role hierarchy and can be as broad—or granular—as needed,…

Role-based access control for Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console

Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console uses role-based access controls (RBAC) to restrict network access to services and resources based on user roles.  Role permissions are either assigned or inherited through a role hierarchy and can be as broad—or granular—as needed,…

Enhancing application container security and compliance with Podman

As organizations adopt container-based ecosystems, the approach to continuous IT security and compliance must shift from traditional system security assessments to new methodologies that account for how cloud-based technologies operate. Containers enable agnosticism amongst cloud computing operating environments by packaging…

Shadow IT and shadow IoT

Can an IoT coffee maker leak company secrets? Where do you put the ‘S’ in ‘IoT’? Join Alison Naylor, Senior Manager for Information Security at Red Hat, in this episode of Security Detail as she discusses the importance of securing…