Introducing New JumpCloud Linux Policies

[Joranna_Ng]

Hi JumpCloud Community!
I'm the Sr Product Marketing Manager for the Devices team. I'm excited to share and introduce four new JumpCloud policies to help your organization manage and secure your deployed Linux endpoints more efficiently, while improving your overall security posture. These new policies are applicable to all JumpCloud-supported Linux Distributions.

Key Capabilities

• Partition Options: Check partition and mount options. Directories that are used for system-wide functions can be further protected by placing them on separate partitions. 
• File Ownership and Permissions: Secure system files for Linux systems.
• Network Parameters: Enhance a system’s network security by setting kernel parameters for IP forwarding, packet routing, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) requests, path filtering, and Transmission Control Protocol Sync (TCP SYN) cookies.
• Disable Unused Filesystems: Prevent an unauthorized user from introducing data into or extracting data from a system. An admin can now determine if a filesystem type isn’t necessary and disable it.

Learn more from my latest blog.

[BScott]

Really excited to see this. Thank you for posting this, Joranna.

[JCDavid]

so cool and so important. I had a few linux devices and our idea of management was for me to have admin credentials, EDR, and monitoring via SIEM. active directory didn't cover it w/ policies and other did manageengine desktop central for patching. *any* device that access an important IT resource/asset should be managed. otherwise, what's the point?

[BScott]

@Joranna_Ng would love to see an update with the 2 newest policies! 🙂