Canonical has formally launched its subscription-based and security-minded model of Ubuntu, Ubuntu Professional. This providing was first launched as a beta final October.
What distinguishes Ubuntu Professional from the freely accessible model of Ubuntu is that it provides well timed patches, hardening and compliance requirements, and contains safety help for 23,000 extra packages than the primary working system.
In response to the product web site, Ubuntu Professional has the power to assist firms cut back their common CVE publicity time to sooner or later from 98 days.
Ubuntu Professional’s patching will cowl essential, excessive, and chosen medium CVEs. These will span throughout 1000’s of purposes and applied sciences, together with populars ones like Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Nagios, Node.js, phpMyAdmin, Puppet, PowerDNS, Python, Redis, and Rust, WordPress.
“I handle my very own compute cluster leveraging MAAS and different Canonical instruments to help my analysis. The open supply safety patches delivered via Ubuntu Professional give my crew peace of thoughts, and guarantee my servers are safe. Canonical is constantly delivering well timed CVE patches overlaying a broad portfolio of open supply purposes for all the ten-year lifetime of an Ubuntu LTS. This brings a lot wanted stability and compliance”, stated David A Gutman,, affiliate professor of pathology at Emory College Faculty of Medication.
Ubuntu Professional comes with the Ubuntu Safety Information (USG), which supplies hardening and safety measures based mostly on CIS benchmarks and DISA-STIG profiles.
Automated patching at scale is managed by Panorama and Livepatch. Livepatch patches kernel vulnerabilities at runtime, which reduces the period of time that’s wanted to reboot gadgets.
The pricing for Ubuntu Professional is $25 per 12 months for a workstation and $500 per 12 months for a server. There’s additionally a free tier for “private and small-scale business use in as much as 5 machines.”
