There’s a lot of “one hand washing the other” in this collaboration: TuxCare gains cred by contributing to Trend’s proprietary platform, AlmaLinux gains another reason for potential users to choose it over the competition, and Trend now has something to offer companies already running AlmaLinux.
On Tuesday, Florida-based TuxCare, the company that keeps no longer supported Linux distributions safe for enterprise use, and Trend Micro, the American-Japanese cyber security software company, announced a new collaboration meant to strengthen long-term protection and streamlined compliance for Federal Information Processing Standards for AlmaLinux deployments.
The collaboration means that users of Trend Vision One, Trend’s flagship security platform, now have access to TuxCare’s AlmaLinux Extended Security Updates, which automatically makes Trend’s platform a more attractive option for AlmaLinux users.
“We’re excited to announce this collaboration, as it enables TuxCare and Trend to significantly expand security and compliance capabilities for our customers,” Michael Canavan, Chief Revenue Officer at TuxCare said in a statement. “Our Extended Security Updates service and award-winning support provide enterprise-class efficiency and peace of mind that’s essential for cybersecurity solutions.”
A partnership with Trend, a blue chip tech company with a history that goes back more than 35 years, is a big deal for TuxCare, which started life in 2014 as a division of CloudLinux, which markets a commercial Linux distribution that’s widely used by web hosting companies and is the company behind the enterprise-focused AlmaLinux distribution.
It’s also important for AlmaLinux, a free drop-in replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and one of the two largest projects to come out of the move CentOS made several years ago, when it quit being a downstream clone of RHEL.
TuxCare’s input will benefit Trend’s AlmaLinux users in four key ways:
- Long-term High and Critical security updates for AlmaLinux 9.2, 9.6, and 9.10, the distro’s FIPS-certified releases
- Full suite of five FIPS-validated modules (kernel, OpenSSL, libcrypt, nss and gnutls)
- FIPS-compliant security patches that do not change the validated cryptography to ensure FIPS 140-3 continuity
- Re-certification for cryptographic CVEs (much faster than the general FIPS 140-3 certification process
“Our customers need stability and longevity in their security strategies for their critical workloads,” Rachel Jin, Chief Enterprise Platform Officer at Trend Micro said in a statement. “Working with TuxCare means we’re able to extend the lifecycle of AlmaLinux deployments within Trend Vision One, minimizing operational disruptions and helping organizations meet industry requirements with confidence.”
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
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