Duration: 30 Hrs

Outcome: It shows to your future employers that you’ve quite a grip in Server Hardening and Security. System Hardening takes security and diligence to another level.

That means it:

• Able to applying more restrictive Security/User Security.
• Restrict access to each computer and device.
• Disable the guest account and features.
• Limit idle time and sleep settings.
• Establish data encryption for all incoming and outgoing communications.
• Remove unnecessary software on the server.
• Perform regular security audits and patches.
• Remove undesirable binaries.
• Establish a comprehensive backup and recovery system.
• Install anti-virus software and updates, and firewalls.
• Remove unnecessary file shares.
• Rename system administrator to something not easily detected by a criminal.
• Restrict permissions to files, services, registry entries and end-points.
• Seek help from an IT professional.

Audience: Those who are looking for the future in the field of System Security.

Prerequisite:  Should be certified with RHCSA,RHCE.

Contents:

RH413(Server Hardening)

1. Tracking security updates- CVE and Redhat Errata
2. Managing software updates
3. Creating file systems
4. Implementing Filesystem Encryption
5. Managing Special Permissions
6. Managing additional File Access Cotrols
7. Monitoring for file system changes
8. Managing user accounts
9. Managing Pluggable Authentication Modues (PAM)
10. Securing GRUB Bootloader
11. Controlling Identity Management-IDM
12. Securing Console Access
13. Installing central Authentication
14. Managing central Authentication
15. Configuring rsyslog log file management
16. Configuring Access to Network Service
17. Configuring System Auditing
18. iptables Basics