PAC | Mastering Linux Security And Hardening (2018 EN)

Company: Packt Publishing
Author: Donald A. Tevault
Full Title: Mastering Linux Security And Hardening
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Educational: Security
Skill Level: -
Price: €124.99
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Files: MP4
Time: 04:05:29
Video: AVC, 1920 x 1080 (1.778) at 30.000 fps, 450 kbps
Audio: AAC at 1102 Kbps, 2 channels, 48.0 KHz



A comprehensive guide to mastering the art of preventing your Linux system from getting compromised.

This course has extensive coverage of techniques that will help prevent attackers from breaching your system, by building a much more secure Linux environment. You will learn various security techniques such as SSH hardening, network service detection, setting up firewalls, encrypting file systems, protecting user accounts, authentication processes, and so on. Moving forward, you will also develop hands-on skills with advanced Linux permissions, access control, special modes, and more. Lastly, this course will also cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques to get your work done efficiently. By the end of this course, you will be confident in delivering a system that will be much harder to compromise..

Style and Approach:
An advanced-level guide filled with real-world examples that will help you secure your Linux system.


Learn:
✓ Use various techniques to prevent intruders from accessing sensitive data
✓ Prevent intruders from planting malware, and detect whether malware has been planted
✓ Prevent insiders from accessing data that they aren’t authorized to access
✓ Do quick checks to see whether a computer is running network services that it doesn’t need to run
✓ Learn security techniques that are common to all Linux distros, and some that are distro-specific

Features:
✓ Leverage this guide to confidently deliver a system that reduces the risk of being hacked
✓ Perform a number of advanced Linux security techniques such as network service detection, user authentication, controlling special permissions, encrypting file systems, and much more
✓ Master the art of securing a Linux environment with this end-to-end practical guide


Lessons:
1. Running Linux in a Virtual Environment
01. The Course Overview
02. The Threat Landscape and Keeping Up with Security News
03. Introduction to VirtualBox and Cygwin
2. Securing User Accounts
04. Setting Up sudo Privileges for Full Administrative Users
05. Setting Up sudo for Users with Only Certain Delegated Privileges
06. Advanced Tips and Tricks for Using sudo
07. Locking Down Users' Home Directories the Red Hat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu Way
08. Enforcing Strong Password Criteria
09. Setting and Enforcing Password and Account Expiration
10. Preventing Brute-Force Password Attacks
11. Locking User Accounts
3. Securing Your Server with a Firewall
12. An Overview of iptables
13. Uncomplicated Firewall for Ubuntu Systems
14. firewalld for Red Hat Systems
15. nftables – A More Universal Type of Firewall System
4. Encrypting and SSH Hardening
16. GNU Privacy Guard
17. Encrypting Partitions with Linux Unified Key Setup – LUKS
18. Encrypting Directories with eCryptfs
19. Using VeraCrypt for Cross-Platform Sharing of Encrypted Containers
20. Ensuring that SSH Protocol 1 Is Disabled
21. Creating a User’s SSH Key Set
22. Disabling Username/Password Logins
5. Mastering Discretionary Access Control
23. Changing Ownership of Files and Directories
24. Setting Permissions Values
25. Using SUID and SGID
26. Protecting Sensitive Files
6. Access Control Lists and Shared Directory Management
27. Creating an Access Control List
28. Creating an Inherited Access Control List
29. Removing a Specific Permission
30. Preventing Loss of ACLs
31. Creating a User Group and Adding Members to It
32. Setting the SGID Bit and the Sticky Bit
33. Accessing Files in the Shared Directory
7. Implementing Mandatory Access Control with SELinux and AppArmor
34. How SELinux Can Benefit a Systems Administrator?
35. Setting Security Contexts for Files and Directories
36. Troubleshooting with setroubleshoot
37. Working with SELinux Policies
38. Looking at AppArmor Profiles
39. Working with AppArmor Command-Line Utilities
8. Scanning, Auditing, and Hardening
40. Installing and Updating ClamAV and maldet
41. Scanning with ClamAV and maldet
42. SELinux Considerations
43. Scanning for Rootkits with Rootkit Hunter
44. Controlling the auditd Daemon and Creating Audit Rule
45. Using ausearch and aureport
46. Scanning and Hardening with Lynis

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