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ANSSI, the National Cybersecurity Agency of France (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information), provides a configuration guide for GNU/Linux systems. It's identified as ANSSI-BP-028 (formerly known as ANSSI DAT NT-028). Recently, ANSSI published an update of its ANSSI-BP-028 configuration recommendations. In this post, I review what has changed from version 1.2 to 2.0, and what it might mean for you as a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) user. Most importantly, I also illustrate how to verify compliance of your systems with this updated Security Content Automation Protocol (S

A lot of organizations use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to orchestrate their infrastructure and Hashicorp Vault to manage their secrets. But how do they work together?HashiCorp Vault is a powerful tool for managing secrets, providing a centralized platform for storing, accessing, and distributing sensitive information. When combined with Ansible Automation Platform, you can streamline and automate secret management across your infrastructure. In this blog post, we'll explore how to integrate HashiCorp Vault with Ansible Tower to automate secret management effectively.Workflow outlineThe

Changing systems passwords is a common task that all systems administrators must do to keep up with all the latest security policies. Now with secrets being managed by the secrets management system, we need a way to integrate with that to keep and manage all the secrets safe while updating the systems passwords in a secure, safe and automated way to stay compliant with all the rules and regulations.Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform makes this easy; there are so many ready-made playbook examples available to update any managed platform, such as Linux, Windows and many network devices. ht

The concept of security by design, which includes the concept of security by default, is not new. In fact, secure by design is considered one of the fundamental principles of secure development. In general, we say there is security by design or security by default when, from the user's point of view, security is included and enabled without doing anything specific or changing the factory configurations. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently developed this concept further, and at Red Hat we are embracing it in our products and cloud services.Secure by default pro

In my first article, Part I: Like a Rainbow In The Dark, I described which problems distributed tracing can help you solve. I also provided some strategies for adopting this observability superpower without getting overwhelmed. As you continue down that path, though, there are some myths that need to be busted, and complex concepts demystified.Let's start with a common phrase that sounds good at first but ultimately isn't useful. This statement can both come from the engineering trenches or whoever is calling the shots: “I want great observability without touching a line of code”.That’s

The Kentik Collection is now Red Hat Ansible Certified Content, and is available on Ansible automation hub. The highlight of this is Event-Driven Ansible, an event source plugin from Kentik to accept alert notification JSON. This works in conjunction with Event-Driven Ansible Rulebooks to allow users to automate changes to their environment.Event-Driven Ansible offers a scalable and adaptable automation solution that integrates with monitoring tools from various software vendors. These tools oversee IT infrastructures, detecting events and automatically executing predefined changes or response

Automation can help increase efficiency, save time and improve consistency, which is why Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) includes features that help automate many tasks. RHEL system roles are a collection of Ansible content that helps provide more consistent workflows and streamline the execution of many manual tasks.Fapolicyd is a security-focused feature that can control which applications may be executed in a RHEL environment, as well as verify the integrity of applications prior to execution. This functionality helps prevent untrusted applications from being executed on a RHEL system. For

Veeam Backup and Replication is a backup, recovery and data management platform that modernizes data protection for cloud, physical and virtual environments. In this post we're going to look at using Veeam as part of a strategy to guard against ransomware attacks.Ransomware attacks continue to be damaging and costly events for all sizes of companies. Immutable backups are just one component in an overall business continuity strategy to protect against these types of revenue and reputation draining catastrophes. Linux is key to this strategy, and specifically Red Hat Enterprise Linux, can act a

How to get started with automated policy as code: Start small but think BIG.A policy enforcement feature is coming to future versions of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This blog provides more detail around where we’re heading with this exciting initiative.What is automated policy as code?Quite simply it allows you to apply policies, or in other words rules, before and/or during automation without having to know about or write those rules into your automation. You have many operational constructs you want to adhere to across your organization, and by automating them as policies, you can

Recently we announced that Red Hat Insights along with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS GovCloud has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) at the High Impact Level.We delved down a bit further into what this means with a recent blog post: Beyond the lingo: What does Red Hat Insights and FedRAMP mean for your workload?We are still getting questions on how to get started and what it looks like to use Insights in a FedRamp environment. To help answer these questions I put together a video that covers the initial configuration of Insights