What is LinuxONE?
LinuxONE is IBM’s enterprise-grade server platform specifically designed for the Linux operating system. Often used by large enterprises to handle massive workloads and business-critical applications - including a large percentage of global credit card transactions - LinuxONE is known for its security, reliability, and scalability.
LinuxONE offers advanced capabilities such as on-chip accelerators for pervasive encryption, innovative quantum-safe technologies, and energy efficiency. It also offers a cyber-resilient platform optimized for hybrid cloud and AI applications, which can help reduce total cost of ownership.
Mondoo for LinuxONE
Mondoo provides actionable exposure management for LinuxOne (including RedHat, Ubuntu, and SUSE on Z), helping organizations detect and address vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in their environments. Mondoo also provides automated and continuous compliance, using out-of-the-box frameworks and controls for all major regulatory requirements and CIS benchmarks.
Asset inventory
Mondoo provides a complete inventory of all your LinuxONE assets, and allows you to tag them according to criticality. This ensures that risks on mission-critical systems are prioritized. Mondoo also allows teams to easily perform searches, such as searching for systems with certain OS versions or other characteristics.
Vulnerability management
Mondoo identifies and helps fix vulnerabilities on LinuxONE, preventing costly data breaches, ransomware attacks, and compliance violations. Since LinuxONE systems are often mission-critical, it’s extremely important to proactively address vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
Automated compliance
Mondoo provides continuous compliance with regulatory frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, NIS2, NIST, and HIPAA, and validates configurations with applicable CIS benchmarks, including CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, RHEL 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15, and Ubuntu 24.04 IBM.
Why use Mondoo for LinuxONE security and compliance?
Mondoo is uniquely positioned to provide significant ROI for LinuxONE users:
#1. Unified on-prem and cloud security
Many LinuxONE users operate in a hybrid environment, with some systems in the cloud and some running on-premises. Mondoo is one of the few platforms that unifies security for the entire IT infrastructure in one interface, including cloud, on-prem, endpoints, and SaaS. Mondoo also covers AIX and IBM Power Systems which many enterprises still run in addition to LinuxONE, enabling all systems to be secured from one platform.
#2. Extensive guided remediation
For each issue detected, Mondoo provides complete, guided remediation steps and code snippets for copying and pasting. Using ITSM integrations, Mondoo streamlines workflows and reduces friction by creating remediation tickets that provide all required information to enable fast action. Mondoo doesn’t just fire-and-forget tickets, but actually tracks tickets to completion, auto-closes them upon verification, and reopens tickets if drift occurs. This approach saves manual work and results in much faster remediation and improved security posture.
#3. Advanced automation options
Mondoo offers Policy as Code for those organizations that want to automate and scale security and compliance across their environment. By adopting a declarative approach, organizations can shift from reactive security to proactive control, reducing misconfigurations and enhancing operational efficiency. Mondoo’s intuitive language, out-of-the-box policies, and AI policy generator ensures that teams get up and running quickly with minimal effort.
#4. Flexible deployment
Depending on your preferences, Mondoo offers a lightweight agent for LinuxONE as well as a LinuxONE agentless scanner to connect to your environments.
About Mondoo
Mondoo identifies, prioritizes, and addresses vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in your entire IT infrastructure and SDLC from a single interface—covering on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and endpoints. Unlike siloed approaches, Mondoo enables you to quickly understand your most urgent risks and initiate fast remediation, ensuring optimized security efforts and significantly improving security posture.
Mondoo doesn’t just detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and then leave you on your own. Instead, Mondoo: (1) Tells you what to tackle first for the biggest impact, (2) Explains exactly how to do it (3) Generates and tracks tickets to ensure completion
By making the process of risk detection and resolution as easy and automated as possible, Mondoo reduces manual work, customizes to fit your business needs, optimizes efforts, and accelerates mean time to resolution (MTTR).
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