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Red Hat bolts the stable with RHEL 6.7

Hardened security and inevitable container angle

Enterprises are rarely in a rush to upgrade their operating systems – they want others to do the battle testing for them first. As is the way with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, released in June 2014.

Red Hat has many customers on the “stable, proven and predictable” RHEL 6.xx and is living up to its 10-year support pledge with the general availability of RHEL 6.7.

Hardening security is a theme of this release, with Red Hat enabling sysadmins to allow read-only mounting of removable media – and so make it harder for employees to walk out the door with company info on their USB sticks.

RHEL 6.7 incorporates Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Workbench, which allows customers to measure compliance against their own company-specific security guidelines and criteria.

The company is also ensuring compatibility with a new hosted service called Red Hat Access Insights. In essence this gives sysadmins a dashboard to highlight and resolveconfiguration issues and vulnerabilities. No pricing yet.

A Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 base image is available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. This enables customers to “keep their operations intact” as they move workloads into container-based applications on Red Hat certified hosts, says Jim Totton, general manager of Red Hat’s platforms business unit. ®

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