Author: Olaf Kirch
January 25, 2018 3:15 pm
25,470 viewsMeltdown and Spectre Performance
Ever since Meltdown and Spectre were disclosed, quite a few customers have been asking us for guidance on the performance impact of the mitigating patches for these hardware vulnerabilities: Do these patches impact performance? If so, by how much?
The first question is answered easily: all these mitigations impact performance - hardly noticeable for some, […]
Categories: Server
August 8, 2012 10:13 am
33,177 viewsOur Planned Approach to Secure Boot
In this follow-on blog to UEFI Secure Boot, I will describe our plans towards UEFI Secure Boot. Note that when we say "SUSE", we really mean two very distinct distributions - SUSE Linux Enterprise on one hand, and openSUSE on the other hand. The latter, being a community project, is rather independent in their […]
Tags: Secure Boot, Security
Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
August 7, 2012 4:51 pm
43,177 viewsUEFI Secure Boot
In case you don't know what this blog is talking about: UEFI is the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface", and "Secure Boot" is one of its more recent features that is generating a bit of a stir in the Open Source world.
At SUSE, we have been looking at UEFI Secure Boot long and […]
Tags: Secure Boot, Security
Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server