Red Hat Technical Account Management services for product security

Safeguard your environment with expert guidance

Maintaining an effective security posture in a complex IT environment is a continuous challenge. Organizations must navigate evolving threats, strict compliance requirements, and the need for resilient infrastructure. 

Red Hat® Technical Account Management (TAM) services for product security, or Red Hat Security TAM, provides technical security experts who partner with your organization to strengthen and refine your security posture while helping you get the most out of your Red Hat implementation. Your Red Hat Security TAM serves as a committed liaison, fostering a transparent perspective on your organization's compliance status and helping you achieve your business goals with Red Hat technologies. 

Objectives and services 

Objectives

What your Red Hat Security TAM provides

Technical expertise

Develops in-depth knowledge of your technical environment and business priorities—with an emphasis on security. Your Security TAM has the necessary credentials and experience in key industries like financial services, healthcare, or the public sector to proactively share specialized security knowledge with your team, both remotely and via on-site visits.

Ongoing relationship and knowledge sharing

Acts as a direct, single point of contact for personalized notifications, insights into current and future Red Hat products, and resolutions for critical security issues, all with a focus on security.

Proactive security planning

Collaborates on strategic and operational planning sessions to help meet long-term security goals across your Red Hat software portfolio. Offers industry guidance to improve security posture, reduce risk, and develop strategies for compliance with security policies and frameworks.

Risk management and mitigation

Proactively notifies you of significant security vulnerabilities, errata releases, software advisories, and new versions. Helps identify, mitigate, and manage security risks.

Insight and influence

Provides insights into new technologies to influence your security roadmap. Gives you a direct line to Red Hat engineering so you can make informed decisions on future product security features and updates. Offers early beta access and support through testing and validation processes.

Incident management

Coordinates among teams, engages specialized security expertise, guides technical direction, and advocates for your needs during critical security situations. Helps speed up root-cause analysis for security incidents.

Continuing security education

Shares access to invitation-only events to meet product security experts and network with peers. Offers education on Red Hat products with a security lens through in-person presentations, TAM newsletters, and webinars.

Security hardening and compliance guidance

Provides guidance on hardening Red Hat products to meet audit requirements, including security vulnerabilities, compliance tools, configuration and use of Red Hat security tools, security profiles, and compliance policies. Assists with security assessments and offers high-level workshops or informal mentoring.

Partnership with the Red Hat security ecosystem

Acts as a liaison with Red Hat's product security departments. Offers guidance on Red Hat-certified security scanners, interpreting results, and identifying false positives versus legitimate findings.

Multivendor security collaboration

Collaborates with your other vendors, particularly security vendors, to resolve support cases using existing collaborative support agreements or on an ad hoc basis.


Investing in a Red Hat Security TAM means you gain a long-term partner dedicated to helping you achieve your security goals. By providing proactive planning and expert guidance on security hardening, compliance, and risk mitigation, a Red Hat Security TAM helps you confidently manage and safeguard your Red Hat environment.

Key benefits

  • Long-term partner: Gain a dedicated expert to help you achieve your security goals.
  • Proactive guidance: Get expert advice to help you manage vulnerabilities and risks before they become a problem.
  • Single point of contact: Simplify  issue resolution with a specialist who understands your unique environment.
  • Expert knowledge transfer: Empower your teams with specialized security knowledge through mentorship and education.
  • Direct line to engineering: Influence future product security features and get early access to new releases.

Additional resources to complement your IT investment

In addition to Red Hat Technical Account Management, Red Hat Consulting and Red Hat Training and Certification provide customers with comprehensive support and guidance as they implement their security strategy. 

Red Hat Consulting

Red Hat Consulting offers hands-on mentorship to help implement and manage Red Hat security solutions. Red Hat Security TAMs serve as your day-to-day point of contact, resolving potential problems—especially security issues—before they occur. Together with Red Hat TAM, Red Hat Consulting provides the expertise needed to smoothly adopt and maintain an effective security posture. 

Red Hat Training and Certification

Red Hat Training and Certification can help you build the skills your organization needs to use security technologies effectively. Relevant courses and certifications can empower your teams to manage and safeguard your Red Hat environment. 

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