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Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 months ago by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Most companies I've worked at where employees had a Microsoft work computers. They were under heavy control, even with admin privileges. I was wondering, for a corporate environment, how employees'Linux desktops could be kept under control in a similar way. What would be an open source or Linux based alternative to the following:

  • policy control
  • Software Center with software allow lists
  • controlled OS updates
  • zscaler
  • software detection tool to detect what's been installed and determine if any unallowed software is present
  • antivirus
  • VPN

I can think of a few things, like a company having it's own software repos, or using an atomic distribution. There's already open source VPN solutions if course. But for everything else I don't really know what could be used or what setup we could have.

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[–] nyek@lemmy.zip 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

If you want to deploy Linux in an enterprise scenario properly, the only real option is using RHEL. Red Hat has a product called Satellite which allows for centralized managing of RHEL installs. This includes patch management, security policy monitoring and provisioning. You can also use something like Red Hat IdM to do user management like in AD. It is also basically your only choice if you have to comply with something like HIPAA. For AV you can use something like Sophos if you absolutely need it https://support.sophos.com/support/s/article/KB-000038296?language=en_US .

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

@cyborganism@lemmy.ca this is RHEL's business. Probably take a look at their documentation how they do it. Probably Fedora and OpenSuse are kind of downstream from that so they might know how to do so without getting paid service involved, but if you're looking to do this for your company: Redhat is where to look.

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah that's what I was thinking also. And what about SUSE? Could they have something similar?

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To add to your comment, there is already a native linux client for ZScalar which my workplace uses. We also use CrowdStrike for EDR, which is also Linux compatible.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or just like... Use Ansible?

[–] nyek@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

sure but it just does a small part of OP's requirements and you probably want some continuous monitoring to go along with that and a nice dashboard.