The MSSP Guide to Red Hat
Tags: opensource, security, tutorial, beginners
Published: 2022-10-31 09:04:49

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For modern or legacy apps and services, Red Hat is considered the leader of Open Source Access and Identity Management solutions. It smoothens the authentication process for apps and services as it is an Identity and Access Management (IAM) tool.

To ensure that the right people in a company have appropriate access to resources is the main objective of the IAM tool. The implementation of Single Sign-On (SSO), identity federation, and strong authentication is generally enabled by IAM solution.

Securing apps is becoming a more and more critical topic daily. Not only that, but failing to protect the data from unauthorized access can potentially cost millions of dollars in the form of various financial penalties. All the apps require some trustworthy tools to manage the users’ identities and access. The IAM tool is one such tool. It will manage as well as protect the users’ identities and access rights and restrict the authorized access.

Well, you all know how Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions are useful. The main use of an IAM solution is that it acts as an Identity Provider (IdP), which means it creates, maintains, and manages the user’s digital identities as well as their authentication factors.

But, the question is, what is Red Hat? What are its features and benefits? How effective is it? Well, this blog has the answer to all your questions. So, be with us and know the answers to all your questions

**What Red Hat Is?**
[Red Hat](https://www.redhat.com/en) provides the technologies to build and deploy applications across a hybrid cloud more securely. It takes a layered, defense-in-depth approach that helps customers implement security across the entire infrastructure and application stack and life cycle.

Red Hat allows users to have a single login credential for multiple apps accessing what is known as a user authentication service. Red Hat is based on multiple well-known standards such as SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0, and can centrally manage fine-grained permissions for applications and services.

For all the applications, it authenticates the end user for which user gains access to. Red Hat is very beneficial in tracking the activities of the users as well as monitoring their accounts. It even allows for high availability by clustering with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, and Azure to comply with a hybrid cloud philosophy.

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**Benefits of Red Hat**
**Open Source Software (OSS)**
Red Hat is the leader in open-source. This means you don’t need any license or service fee for using it as it is open-source software in nature. You can access the source code freely. Adjustments can be made by anyone and during any time of the day as it is Open Source Software (OSS). There is no vendor lock-in. Because of this, it is not highly expensive but a powerful, and continuously maintained solution.

**Cutting-Edge Philosophy**
While no one can predict future trends in technology with 100% accuracy, it should be noted that Red Hat has given every indication that it will continue to strive toward innovation rather than settle for stagnation. The company maintains relationships with an increasingly large circle of hardware and software vendors, as well as a number of standard-setting industry organizations, ensuring the company can respond to tech and business trends in a prompt fashion.

Red Hat was one of the founding members—and an ongoing supporter—of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) Working Group, which promotes this widely adopted open messaging protocol standard. The company was also a member of the now-defunct Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). These are indicators of a company that goes far beyond merely dispensing products, and for that reason, it is well worth forging a long-term business relationship with them.

**24/7 Support**
We are living in a 24/7 technological world where it is necessary to have 24/7 assistance from trained professionals. Red Hat’s technical support team is available around the clock to provide assistance and solutions. It is very important for you to keep everything running smoothly. All of their support engineers have Red Hat Certified Engineer credentials and/or have years of relevant industry experience. That means you can get the answer you need whenever you need it.

**User Friendly**
It permits you to quickly build scalable and trustable pipelines for Apache Kafka without writing code and is very user friendly.

**Improves Usability**
Either for building, deploying, and scaling new cloud-native apps or modernizing existing systems, it is a managed cloud service that improves usability as well as user experience.

**Features Of Red Hat**

- One-time password (OTP) policies
- Centralized password policy
- Authorization policies per resource or per scope
- Timed access policy (users or groups of users can log in only between certain time slots)
- Rule-Based policy
- Kerberos-based authentication
- Signed token for security/encryption
- Multiple-parameter authentication
- Form validation on login and OTP
- 2 Factor Authentication-SMS-Authentication Provider
- Biometric authentication with WebAuth and SSO

**Why Choose Sennovate’s Red Hat?**
We at Sennovate implement and support all the suites and applications of the Red Hat. For example, Sennovate Red Hat IAM suites and applications include,

- Single Sign-On
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Access Management
- Identity Management APIs.
- Directory Integration
- Fast Deployment
- Security best-practice configurations out-of-the-box

**Summing Up**
We hope this blog helps you to understand what Red Hat is and how it will help your organization. It offers way more benefits apart from the above-mentioned ones such as it is cloud-native, i.e it helps you scale up your resources according to your needs and requirements, and much more. If you are worried about the security of your organization’s data, you should give Red Hat a try!

**FAQs**
**1. What is Red Hat?**
Red Hat is the leader of Open Source Access and Identity Management (IAM) solutions.

**2. Is Red Hat Unix or Linux?**
Red Hat Enterprise Linux or RHEL is a Linux-based operating system that is designed for the security of the organization.

**3. Is Red Hat Enterprise Linux free?**
Yes, Red Hat’s subscription is based completely on free and open source software, Red Hat makes available the complete source code to its enterprise distribution through its FTP site to anybody who wants it. But its support and services are not free.

**4. Does Red Hat support SSO?**
Yes, it supports Single Sign-On (SSO).

**5. What is special about Red Hat?**
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a performance-driven, cost-effective platform for Microsoft SQL Server that provides a scalable foundation and a consistent application experience across bare-metal, virtual machine, container, and hybrid cloud environments.

**6. Why do people use Red Hat?**
Red Hat offers a variety of open source software that benefits the businesses.

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