TuxCare’s KernelCare Enterprise Live Patching Services
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TuxCare’s KernelCare Enterprise Live Patching Services
Additional Info
| Company | TuxCare |
| Website | http://www.tuxcare.com |
| Company size (employees) | 50 to 99 |
| Headquarters Region | North America |
Overview
Security operations teams strive to minimize their organizations’ risk by identifying vulnerabilities and setting a patching policy to consistently yet conveniently address them. At the same time, system owners aim to provide a great user/customer experience by making the most of their available systems. This is sometimes seen as a tradeoff, with some organizations accepting a higher level of data breach risk to support operations and provide a better customer experience. Meanwhile, other organizations opt to reduce their risk by updating their systems more frequently at the cost of using more IT resources and often while affecting their customer experience. Forward-thinking organizations don’t make this tradeoff. Instead, thanks to live patching technology, they provide their users and organization with continuous service while at the same time reducing their risk and rapidly patching all vulnerabilities – all with no or little additional effort.
TuxCare’s KernelCare live patching significantly enhances a vulnerability patching program by reducing the vulnerability window, eliminating downtime, and erasing the hidden costs and risks of maintenance windows. With TuxCare’s KernelCare, systems are patched in milliseconds while they are still running, eliminating vulnerability patching delays caused by the wait to the next maintenance window. The kernel and processes running in the system are updated to non-vulnerable code automatically.
Key Capabilities / Features
TuxCare also provides its customers with Extended LifeCycle Support that receives automated patches for end-of-life PHO, Python, or a Linux distribution that is no longer supported like CentOS7, Oracle Linux 6 and more. Through this operating system, TuxCare extends the use of unsupported operating systems for up to 4 years past its end-of-life date.
TuxCare recognizes that vulnerability management through live patching is critical to maintaining the security of Linux systems. With 24x7x365 care, TuxCare is more than just a live patching and Linux support provider. They make sure that their users’ Linux-based systems are secure, stable, and reliable – while giving them the personalized assistance they need. TuxCare works tirelessly to take care of Linux so that their customers can comfortably and affordably use the open-source software they love with the enterprise-grade support they need.
How we are different
-- Accelerates the vulnerability patching timeline - In large organizations, the separation of duties and different system ownership make security patching a challenging task. According to Ponemon Institute, 56% of enterprise organizations take from five weeks to more than one year to apply security patches. At the same time, high risk vulnerabilities appear at unexpected times. Instead of spending time identifying the responsible teams and deliberating on patching and restarting the vulnerable servers during the next maintenance window, KernelCare live patching enables you to patch systems immediately – shrinking the vulnerability patching window to the absolute minimum. Any vulnerable servers are patched as soon as the fix is available.
-- Eliminates maintenance windows or sets the right one for your organization - Several organizations have settled for monthly or quarterly maintenance windows where services are restarted, and servers are rebooted. This way, systems receive vulnerability fixes, but at the cost of service downtime and the expense related to wasted human capital on mundane tasks. With KernelCare, you can eliminate maintenance windows entirely or set them to what makes the most sense for your business, whether they are months apart or even following years of enjoying uptime. You’re now able to nearly eradicate downtime from your infrastructure and use your engineers where they’re needed most, all while automatically live patching vulnerabilities.
-- Patches all Linux systems in an infrastructure - KernelCare live patching is available for a variety of Linux systems. Whether you have infrastructure with CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux, Oracle Linux, Debian, or Ubuntu systems, KernelCare Enterprise will patch your systems. It’s available for both x86-64 (Intel and AMD) and ARM64 architecture. On each supported system, all the released kernels receive security patches for a practically unlimited period.
