About Canonical
EXECUTIVE INSIGHT
About Canonical
Canonical is a UK-based privately held computer software company founded and funded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects .
It works to make open-source secure , reliable and easy to use , providing support for Linux distributions like Ubuntu , in addition to a wide portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies .
The company also employs staff in more than 70 countries , with offices in locations including London , Austin , Boston , Shanghai , Beijing , Taipei , Tokyo and the Isle of Man .
consider telecoms networks as critical national infrastructure .
In turn , this has led to increasingly tough rules and regulations for operators and service providers , with the UK bringing in the Electronic Communications ( Security Measures ) Regulations and Telecommunications Security Code of Practice in September 2022 . The regulations being adopted in different nations include stringent data protection laws to protect consumer identity and data , and requirements to secure both infrastructure and software – sparking a wave of investment in security solutions across the sector .
A wave of recent data breaches at US telecoms organisations has seen more than 74 million private records of customers at organisations including Verizon , AT & T , T-Mobile and US cellular leak onto the dark web .
The scale of these attacks highlights the size of the risks facing the sector and the responsibility companies in the telco
18 March 2024