Red Hat Server Hardening
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Course Description
Course content summary
- Review errata and apply them to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Use special permissions and file system access control lists
- Manage users and password-aging policy requirements
- Install and configure Red Hat Identity Management tools
- Understand system auditing
Prerequisites
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) certification, or equivalent experience required
- For candidates who have not earned their RHCSA or RHCE certifications, confirmation of the required knowledge can be obtained by passing the online skills assessment
Audience
- Needs technical guidance on how to enhance the security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
- Responsible for implementing security policy requirements on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems consistently and in a reproducible, scalable way
- Must be able to demonstrate that systems meet security policy requirements
- Maintains continued adherence to security requirements, including management of security-critical operating system/software updates
- RHCE-level skills highly recommended
Course Content
- Track security updates Understand how Red Hat Enterprise Linux produces updates and how to use yum to perform queries to identify what errata are available.
- Manage software updates Develop a process for applying updates to systems including verifying properties of the update. Create file systems Allocate an advanced file system layout and use file system encryption.
- Manage file systems Adjust file system properties through security related options and file system attributes.
- Manage special permissions Work with set user ID (SUID), set group ID (SGID), and sticky (SVTX) permissions and locate files with these permissions enabled.
- Manage additional file access controls Modify default permissions applied to files and directories; work with file access control lists.
- Monitor for file system changes Configure software to monitor the files on your machine for changes.
- Manage user accounts Set password-aging properties for users; audit user accounts. Manage pluggable authentication modules (PAMs) Apply changes to PAMs to enforce different types of rules on users.
- Secure console access Adjust properties for various console services to enable or disable settings based on security.
- Install central authentication Install and configure a Red Hat Identity Management server and client.
- Manage central authentication Configure Red Hat Identity Management rules to control both user access to client systems and additional privileges granted to users on those systems.
- Configure system logging Configure remote logging to use transport layer encryption and manage additional logs generated by remote systems.
- Configure system auditing Enable and configure system auditing.
- Control access to network services Manage firewall rules to limit connectivity to network services.
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Course Details
Duration - 4 days
Price - $3500.00 USD
(Discounts may apply. Call for more information.)
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