Red Hat Enterprise Linux And Secure Boot In The Cloud
Red Hat News, Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
Secure Boot technology is part of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification. It is a useful and powerful tool which can be used to improve boot time security of an operating system by only allowing trusted code to be executed on that system.
The technology is not new-it was part of UEFI specification since v2.0 (2006), and it is extensively used by x86 hardware vendors today. In the cloud world, however, the technology only became available fairly recently:...