Many US military, government or critical national infrastructure organisation workloads that require FIPS compliance are also required to be deployed in air-gapped environments to provide an extra layer of protection.  In order to reduce operational and security risks by automating hardening, patch management and compliance to security standards like CIS and DISA-STIG as well as the FIPS 140-2 certifications, we’ve developed Ubuntu Advantage for your private infrutracture and Ubuntu Pro for cloud.  In this blog we will look at what having a FIPS compliant instance means and the different ways you have to enable that in your disconnected environment. What does enabling FIPS mean?

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