Why use OpenLogic CIS hardened Linux images?

Hardened Linux images are designed to address the real-world challenges organizations face as they navigate away from CentOS and toward more secure, compliant, and supported Linux distributions. Backed by Perforce migration services, long-term support, and SLA-backed technical expertise, hardened Linux Images bring next-level confidence to IT teams under pressure.

OpenLogic's hardened Linux images address the following pain points by combining secure, scalable technology with expert-driven services:

• Longer-than-expected migrations due to complexity, resource constraints, or lack of internal expertise

• Linux options that fall short on compliance and enterprise-grade reliability

• Overwhelming complexity of managing Linux environments in-house

• Cost unpredictability due to extended downtime, remediation costs, and schedule overruns caused by do-it-yourself migrations

Our automated image hardening process enables us to replicate our image building process with both speed and accuracy. Before we automated the process, it would take us over 8 hours to manually apply the security hardening recommendations to each image that we built, which was then put through rigorous quality assurance (QA) to ensure that we did not miss any steps and that each step was correctly applied.

Even after automating our hardening process, we still put our images through the same rigorous QA to ensure that each image that we release is complete, functional, and hardened the same way.

This saves you hours performing all of these steps yourself each time a new Rocky Linux release is announced. Our images are vetted, available, and include support from our team of Tier 3/4 open-source architects and engineers.

The results of the evaluations are available within the instances in the /home/<OS>/hardened/ directory. Our hardened Linux images only have a single user account created by the installer.