How Ubuntu keeps your system secure, stable and current

March 3, 2026 14:00 (GMT+0)

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If you manage or run Ubuntu in any capacity, whether that’s a fleet of production servers, a team of developer workstations, cloud instances, or even Linux on Windows through WSL, you’ve probably felt the tension between staying secure and staying stable. Upgrading to the latest version to fix a vulnerability sounds straightforward, until it introduces breaking changes, new dependencies, or behaviour your applications weren’t designed for.

We’ll start with security backporting, the practice at the heart of Ubuntu’s stability promise. When a vulnerability is discovered, Canonical’s security team isolates the fix and applies it to the stable LTS release you’re already running, no version upgrades, no API changes, no surprises. Your systems stay patched and your applications keep working exactly as they did before.

We’ll then look at the other side of the coin: the Hardware Enablement (HWE) model, which brings newer kernels and graphics drivers from recent Ubuntu releases into your LTS base. This means you get support for the latest hardware and performance improvements, without giving up the stability of your current platform. It’s how Ubuntu gives you the best of both worlds, a stable foundation that still moves forward.

From there, we’ll zoom out to the full Ubuntu Pro offering. Ubuntu Pro extends security maintenance to the Main and Universe repository packages, for up to 15 years. We’ll cover how this works across servers, desktops, cloud, and containers, and we’ll walk through how Ubuntu Pro for WSL now brings the same enterprise-grade security and fleet management to developers and IT teams working with Linux on Windows.

Finally, we’ll touch on Ubuntu’s defense in depth strategy: how security primitives like AppArmor, Secure Boot, FIPS-compliant cryptography, CIS benchmarks, and confidential computing technologies work together as layered protections across your stack.

This webinar is for you if you’re:

• An IT manager or sysadmin responsible for keeping Linux systems secure, patched, and compliant, without disrupting the teams that rely on them

• A security or compliance lead looking for a clearer path to audit readiness and long-term vulnerability management across your open source estate

• A developer or platform engineer who wants to understand what’s happening under the hood of Ubuntu’s security model: and how to take advantage of it

• Anyone who runs Ubuntu: on bare metal, in the cloud, on a desktop, or inside WSL, and wants to make informed decisions about how they secure and maintain it

We’ll share real-world examples of how organisations use this approach in practice, and you’ll leave with a clear understanding of what Ubuntu Pro includes and how to get started.

Speaker

• Ijlal Loutfi, Product Manager for Ubuntu Foundation Security