Ubuntu Pro

Description

Accelerate enterprise innovation and eliminate unpatched vulnerability risk across your entire open source infrastructure.

Ubuntu Pro by Canonical offloads security maintenance and automates regulatory compliance, freeing engineering teams from endless patching cycles while guaranteeing mission-critical uptime. By extending vulnerability coverage beyond the base OS to over 30,000 open-source packages and toolchains, it protects your full application stack with prompt CVE fixes, rebootless kernel patching, and pre-configured hardening profiles—allowing organizations to safely operate production workloads at scale across public clouds, data centers, and IoT fleets.

Key Features

• Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM): Extends CVE patch coverage to 10 years (expandable to 15 years with Legacy add-on) across the entire Ubuntu Archive, covering both Main and Universe repositories.

• Kernel Livepatch Automation: Apply critical and high-severity Linux kernel security fixes in real time without requiring system reboots, maximizing continuous service uptime.

• Enterprise Compliance & Hardening: Streamline certifications with pre-packaged compliance tooling for FIPS 140, DISA-STIG, CIS benchmarks, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS.

• Broad Application & Toolchain Coverage: Secures foundational software stacks beyond the OS, including Python, Rust, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Kafka, and Docker/OCI containers.

• Centralized Fleet Management: Includes Landscape for automated multi-machine patching, security auditing, asset inventory, and compliance governance across on-prem, cloud, and edge devices.