Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

Linux runs the majority of infrastructure today, and Red Hat is one of the most popular distributions. With the daily news of attacks, breaches and vulnerabilities, securing Red Hat infrastructure is a vital task essential to know for every system administrator. 

As you transition through the course, you will learn technologies that are key to securing any infrastructure. These technologies include but are not limited to intrusion detection, encryption of storage, security policies and auditing. You will learn to think of security as a requirement that should come by nature and not an afterthought. Even though the course utilizes Red Hat, the concept's scale to all other Linux distributions. 

This course takes a hands-on approach to give the best and most modern practices to protect your machines regardless of where they are running. At the end of this course, the security professional will be able to confidently secure, audit and automate Linux systems to avoid security flaws that can cost companies a lot.

What You Will Learn

  • Secure Linux based infrastructure and avoiding any pitfalls that may lead to breaches
  • Use the most modern tools to automate security instead of the outdated manual approach
  • Proactively thinking about security as a requirement and not an afterthought

Program Curriculum

  • Setup
  • Checking NTP
  • Reset Root Password
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • What Is Aide and Why Is It Used?
  • Installing and Configuring AIDE
  • More AIDE Examples
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Introduction to LUKS
  • Encrypting, Decrypting and Mounting a LUKS Device
  • LUKS Best Practices
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Importance Of Blocking USB Access
  • How To Block USB Access Using Modprobe
  • How To Use Modprobe for Other Security Measures
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • What Is PAM and Why Is It Important?
  • How To Create a Password Policy in Pam ?
  • PAM Extra Options
  • How To Resolve Misconfiguration in PAM Files ?
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • What Is Auditing and Why Is It Used?
  • How To Configure Audit Daemon (Auditd)?
  • How To Read and Navigate the Audit Logs ?
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • What Is SELinux?
  • More on SELinux
  • SELinux Installation
  • How To Troubleshoot and Resolve SELinux ?
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • OpenSCAP and Its Advantages.
  • Installing and Configuring OpenSCAP
  • Example Runs of OpenSCAP
  • Chapter 8 Quiz
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Instructor

Bilal Dayeh

Bilal Dayeh is a technology professional working for a major US corporation. Throughout his career, he led sys-admin teams in deploying and securing environments to pass audits and penetration tests. He is a level 4 Red Hat Certified Architect; one of the highest honors given for Linux professionals in the world. He is also certified from other vendors such as IBM, Cisco, and AWS. He works with Linux security tools on a daily basis for some of the world’s largest companies. Bilal has deployed and secured state-of-the-art telecommunication systems on Linux platforms throughout all continents in the world. His experience is not restricted to theory; as it is a real-world exposure that he enjoys sharing with his students and expanding on. In his free time, he mentors new engineers on modern technologies in cloud, linux and security.

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