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Today, computers are more sophisticated, interconnected and complex than ever. This means they’re more capable than ever – but it also comes with a downside: that their attack surface is larger than ever, leading to an elevated risk of cyber incidents. Therefore, your approach to managing vulnerabilities needs to be holistic and prepare for all the ways in which vulnerabilities could cause damage to users, systems or your organization’s operations and reputation.

I always find the Olympics to be an unusual experience. I’m hardly an athletics fanatic, yet I can’t help but get swept up in the spirit of the competition. When the Olympics took place in Paris last summer, I suddenly began rooting for my country in sports I barely knew existed. I would spend random Thursday nights glued to the TV, cheering on athletes as they skillfully let fly arrows, disks, hammers and so on.

In the wake of EU drafted legislation and US executive orders, a software bill of materials (SBOM) has gone from a nice-to-have to a fundamental piece of software documentation. In this article, we’ll examine what an SBOM is, what information it must include, and the approaches that developers and manufacturers alike should consider as they start building their SBOM.

Typically, a technical writer takes the product created by a development team, and writes the documentation that expresses the product to its users. At Canonical we take a different approach. Documentation is part of the product. It’s the responsibility of the whole team. Documentation work is led by a technical author, who is part of the team, and whose title signals their technical authority.

Industrial cybersecurity is on every CISO’s mind as manufacturers strive to integrate their IT and OT operations to drive efficiency and productivity. However, with increased connectivity comes heightened risk. This means that securing devices, networks, and systems is a critical challenge.

In September we introduced Authd, a new authentication daemon for Ubuntu that allows direct integration with cloud-based identity providers for both Ubuntu Desktop and Server. At launch, Authd supports Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), making it a useful tool to centralize authentication for both the application and the infrastructure layer. In large enterprises system administrators often need to deploy and manage applications and their configuration at scale.

With automation spanning virtually every sector of society, real-time capable operating systems (OS) are becoming critical across industries, from automotive and telecommunications, to industrial manufacturing. A real-time operating system (RTOS) ensures precise and deterministic responses, meeting strict timing requirements essential for safety and performance.

Today, EdgeIQ and Canonical announced the release of the EdgeIQ Coda snap and official support of Ubuntu Core on the EdgeIQ Symphony platform. EdgeIQ Symphony helps you simplify and scale workflows for device fleet operations, data consumption and delivery, and application orchestration. Distributing EdgeIQ Coda as a snap brings the power, connectivity, and control of the EdgeIQ Symphony platform to millions of Linux users who can now install this enterprise tool with a single terminal command.

London, 19 November 2024. Canonical has collaborated with Microsoft as an early adopter partner and tested Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, which is notable as Microsoft today released Azure IoT Operations, a unified data plane providing significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing and cloud-ingress.

Today, Canonical announced the availability of MicroCloud’s first long term support (LTS) release. MicroCloud is part of Canonical’s cloud infrastructure portfolio. As the publisher of Ubuntu, Canonical is known for providing Ubuntu LTS releases every two years in April. With the addition of a MicroCloud LTS, Canonical expands its commitment to long term support for organizations looking for a scalable virtualization solution for edge and low-touch clouds.