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Navigating the XZ Security Vulnerability: A Comprehensive Guide

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the recent discovery of a critical vulnerability in XZ Utils, a widely used data compression software, underscores the need for vigilant security practices. Identified as CVE-2024-3094, this backdoor vulnerability, discovered on March 28, 2024, has sent ripples through the open-source community and beyond, affecting various Linux distributions and necessitating immediate action to safeguard systems against potential exploits (Microsoft Community Hub) (Unit 42).

Custom Discovery Images for SecureBoot

In the previous article “SecureBoot and orcharhino” I explained what SecureBoot is, how it works and what are the options for implementing it in orcharhino. In the end, various options and solutions were presented, with option 2 being discussed in more detail here. I recommend reading this blog post beforehand to better understand the following.

ATIX at ConfigMgmtCamp 2024

Meeting old friends, making new ones and learning lots of interesting things – that’s what ConfigManagementCamp 2024 in Ghent is all about. This year, in 2024, we attended the event again, following the established traditions of the previous year.

Live Patching & Foreman—how it fits together

Apply patches and critical updates to your Linux kernel without rebooting your system, maximize uptime, and perform critical security updates and major bug fixes: in his talk, Bernhard presented how to combine and use this technology with Foreman.

orcharhino and SecureBoot

Security is mandatory in today’s IT. Although orcharhino was primarily developed for lifecycle management of servers, more and more customers demand unattended provisioning and lifecycle management of laptop systems. This often means that you have to enable SecureBoot. In this article, we would like to give you a short introduction to SecureBoot and explain why it is difficult to combine it with orcharhino’s unattended provisioning.

ATIX at the Config Management Camp 2023

This year ATIX will participate in Config Management Camp 2023 with its own booth and several speakers! We are excited to meet everyone in Ghent! This year 4 members of the ATIX crew will be giving presentations!

Migrating CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8 or AlmaLinux 8 using orcharhino

Red Hat has ceased support for CentOS 8 with the end of 2021. Therefore people have been looking for alternatives. Two of the most famous ones are Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8, both of which represent binary compatible distributions based on Red Hat.

Using Packer to Speed Up Internal Test Deployments – ATIX in Action

For internal orcharhino testing, we use the template-based deployments deployment. Using up-to-date VM templates built by Packer speeds up our testing and development process.

Automated Windows Patches with Ansible

As a specialist for Linux patch management, we are often asked whether we are also familiar with Windows patch management and whether we can provide an automated solution for this. The answer is pretty simple, YES we can. We have already built and implemented fully automated Windows patch management with Ansible for several customers.

orcharhino and Sophos – a malware trail search

The use of anti-virus and security software is a prerequisite in most infrastructure scenarios. This makes it all the more important to adapt them to the respective usage scenario. orcharhino as the central hub in the computing cluster is of particular importance.