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"FIPS"

Henry Coggill
17 February 2026

Announcing FIPS 140-3 for Ubuntu Core22

Hardening Ubuntu tech blog

FIPS compliance for IoT use cases in Federal space. In this article, we’ll explore what Ubuntu Core is, and how to use it with FIPS. ...

Lidia Luna Puerta
12 February 2026

When an upstream change broke smartcard FIPS authentication – and how we fixed it

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

This is the story of how Canonical’s Support team provided bug-fix support: we tracked down an upstream change in OpenSC that inadvertently broke FIPS compatibility, coordinated with upstream developers across distributions, and delivered both a hotfix and a proper universal solution. ...

Henry Coggill
17 November 2025

Everything you need to know about FIPS 140-3 on Ubuntu | Videos 

Hardening Ubuntu tech blog

We get a lot of questions about FIPS 140-3, and so we decided to put together this comprehensive collection of video resources to answer the most burning ones we’ve had so far.  ...

Canonical
11 November 2025

Canonical releases FIPS-enabled Kubernetes

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Today at KubeCon North America, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, released support to enable FIPS mode in its Kubernetes distribution, providing everything needed to create and manage a scalable cluster suitable for high-security and Federal deployments. ...

Henry Coggill
5 February 2025

FIPS 140-3 certified modules now available for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

FIPS Ubuntu tech blog

New deployments should take advantage of the new FIPS 140-3 certified modules available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ...

Henry Coggill
4 February 2025

The role of FIPS 140-3 in the latest FedRAMP guidance

FIPS Ubuntu tech blog

Good news in the US federal compliance space. The latest FedRAMP policy relaxes past restrictions that prevented organizations from applying critical security updates. ...

Marina Khachatryan
15 August 2024

Meet our Public Sector team at Technet Augusta 2024

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

We’re excited to announce our participation in Technet Augusta 2024 from 19 to 22 August. ...

Henry Coggill
24 June 2024

Meet DISA-STIG compliance requirements for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with USG

DISA STIG Ubuntu tech blog

DISA, the Defense Information Systems Agency, recently published their Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in April 2024. We’re pleased to now release the Ubuntu Security Guide profile to enable customers to automatically harden and audit their Ubuntu 22.04 LTS systems for the STIG. What is a STIG? A STIG i ...

Henry Coggill
7 December 2023

Ubuntu 22.04 FIPS 140-3 modules available for preview

FIPS Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical has been working with our testing lab partner, atsec information security, to prepare the cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) for certification with NIST under the new FIPS 140-3 standard. The modules passed all of atsec’s algorithm validation tests and are in the queue awaiting NIST’s approval. We can’t ...

Carlos Bravo
20 November 2023

Canonical at AWS re:Invent – What you need to know!

AI Ubuntu tech blog

Though the Las Vegas Grand Prix has come to a close, the Canonical team is gearing up for the next big race at AWS re:Invent, slated for November 27-December 1, 2023. After a thrilling event in 2022, we’re excited and proud to be a sponsor once again in 2023. Learn more about the ways that ...

Marina Khachatryan
2 November 2023

Meet the Canonical Federal and DOD team at Alamo Ace 2023

DISA STIG Ubuntu tech blog

Find us at the booth #54 or join a special joint session on November 14th at 2:15 PM. ...

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