Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released with Improved Security for Hybrid Clouds

After shocking the world earlier this week with the announcement that Red Hat was bought by tech giant IBM, the company now announces the general availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 operating system.

Designed and optimized for enterprise use, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 operating system improves the overall security to meet today's standards in cloud environments by adding two new layers of security in an attempt to keep the information that's stored on disks more secure for hybrid cloud operations.

As such, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6, Red Hat introduces TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 hardware modules as part of Network Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE), which provides enhanced security across networked environments and the ability to bind disks to specific physical systems on-premise.

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