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Course Overview

Your systems represent your business and your success. Without adequate attention, these precious resources place your business and customers at risk. You need to ensure that you know the security threat posed by rootkits in Linux. 

This course will help understand the different rootkits out there, and the threat they present. Monitoring your system is essential, and you will learn the tools available to you on a standard system as well as additional tools that can be added. During the course, you will learn tips that will help you secure and manage your system in the best possible way to mitigate the threat from cyber or internal attacks. 

By the end of this course, you’ll learn about rootkits and will be securing tour system preventing loss of your data and customers.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn to install rootkits.
  • Understand how to use rootkit detection tools.
  • Use aide system comparison tool.
  • Learn to secure Linux to prevent future attacks.
  • Develop a security policing and monitoring systems for compliance.

Program Curriculum

  • So, You’ve Been pwned!
  • Setting up the Lab
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Gaining Initial Access to the System
  • Installing the Rootkit
  • Covering Your Tracks
  • Testing Access and Detectability
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Relying on Detection Software can be False Security
  • Using unhide to Detect Rootkits
  • Using Rootkit Hunter to Detect Rootkits
  • Using chkrootkit to Detect Rootkits
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Using System Logs to Monitor Activity
  • Using the Linux Audit Systems to Maintain Security
  • Using ausearch to Audit Activity
  • Monitoring System Changes with AIDE
  • Using AIDE in Linux
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Identifying Weakness in Your Security Policy
  • Using Configuration Management to Enforce the Policy
  • Installing OpenSCAP
  • Installing Ansible
  • Creating the Security Playbook
  • Securing Your Estate
  • Chapter 5 Quiz
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Instructor

Donald Tevault

Donald A. Tevault—but you can call him Donnie—got involved with Linux way back in 2006 and has been working with it ever since. He holds the Linux Professional Institute Level 3—Security certification, and the GIAC Incident Handler certification. Donnie is a professional Linux trainer, and thanks to the magic of the internet, teaches Linux classes globally from the comfort of his living room. He's also a Linux security researcher for an IoT security company.

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