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This group of pages centers around all maintainability aspects of Kicksecure.

• Maintainability
• Relationship With Upstream
• Stable Version User Experience
• Stable vs Rolling Distributions
• Reasonable Security
• Practical Security
• Enterprise Security
• Maximum Security
• Perfect Security
• Privacy Goals and Non-Goals
• Project Policies

A discussion of the definition of "enterprise security" in computing.

While the idea of achieving enterprise security is appealing, it comes with a lot of unexpected drawbacks. Namely high costs for certifications and little actually tangible security improvements that couldn't or wouldn't be achieved otherwise.

Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered! See this for potential alternatives.

Build Integrity & Transparency Features

Feature	Description	Kicksecure	Most Enterprise Linux Distributions
Protection from supply chain attacks	Mandates digital signature verification at all stages of development. This includes source code commits, git tags, the build process, and final downloads. Execution or deployment of unsigned code is strictly forbidden. The policy helps prevent supply chain attacks by ensuring the authenticity and integrity of software throughout its development and distribution.	Yes	No
Signed (ISO) images downloads	All downloads are cryptographically signed, allowing users to verify the authenticity and integrity of releases.	Yes
Signed software packages are verified by the package manager		Yes	Yes
Documentation encourages users to perform digital software signature verification	Verifying Software Signatures is consistently pointed out in documentation.	Yes	No
Certification	Cybersecurity validations and certifications, product compliance	No	Yes
Kernel livepatching	kpatch	No	Yes
Community support		Yes	Yes
Enterprise support	Onboard new companies, answer questions, resolve issues at scale according to a service agreement.	No	Yes
Professional 24/7 support	Access to support engineers 24x7 for high-severity issues according to service agreement.	No	Yes
Extended LTS long-term support (5 years) by vendor		No	Yes
Extended LTS long-term support (5 - 19 years) by vendor		No	Yes

See Also

• https://wiki.almalinux.org/Comparison.html

Footnotes

Kicksecure A secure by default operating system with the latest security research in place.

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