Linux Security & Server Hardening
What about this course?
Overall security is a common Linux skill, often overlooked during a production deployment. Specifically, the hardening of the operating system against common exploits consists of a set of best practices employed to protect any Linux Server from invasive hacks or attacks. Learn to • Mitigate the physical security risks, • Secure your environment against various physical attacks, • Encrypt file systems to protect important data. Next, you'll put into place some simple best practices to harden the operating system: • Learn the methods to obtain the key information about the new vulnerabilities and exposures. • Discover RedHat methods of evaluation for each vulnerability level in the operating system and measure the severity levels of these vulnerabilities. • Benefit from expertise in SELinux to enforce data confidentiality and integrity, as well as protecting processes from untrusted inputs. • Gain expertise in the Linux Pluggable Authentication Module Concepts and Learn how to use it to protect the system. • Finally, track System events by system logging and auditing There is no course can guarantee your servers are 100% secure, only your successful completion of the course can help you. But I have made sure that after successfully fulfilling all the assignments of this course, you will have the skills to protect your servers and make them more secure against all types of threat.

Instructor for this course
Muhamad Elkenany
HP CSA - HP-UX 11i v3 Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System Cer...
This course is composed by the following modules
Physical Protection
Secure Boot Loader
CNTRL+ALT+DEL
Interactive Startup
Disk Encryption
Text Console Settings
Security Updates
Software Updates & Kernal Security
Linux Antivirus & Linux Rootkits
Linux Permissions
Special Permissions
Access Control List
Security Enhanced Linux
Filesystem Security
Filesystem Attributes
Linux User Accounts
Password Aging
Linux Group Account
Linux PAM
PAM Examples
Sudo
Secure Network Services
Secure SSH
Linux Firewall
TCP Wrappers
Linux Logging
Linux Auditing
Audit Reporting
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