Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

In this current connected world, security solutions are vital to keeping the business afloat, but most Security solutions are expensive, invasive, and awkward. An important aspect of a security solution for small-medium companies is price and operability, you as a Sysadmin should be able to provide an affordable solution with high-security specs to prevent hacker incursions. 

This course will embark you on the journey through one of the most underrated, powerful, and inexpensive Server OS, be it for internal systems, Internet-facing or as a security server, OpenBSD includes the most hardening solutions and settings that normally would take you weeks to adjust and check. It is secure, open-source, and free which makes it the perfect solution for a production server 

If you are a beginner in the sysadmin arts this course will be perfect to guide you on how to install, maintain and set up the most common applications for your company as well as how to protect your servers using native commands included on the OpenBSD build. 

What You Will Learn

  • Understand the differences between OpenBSD and other *nix builds.
  • Explore OpenBSD’s security features.
  • Learn to create different server builds to show how to set OpenBSD as a Web, NFS, Proxy server and even as a Firewall, with instructions and source material.
  • Perform tests and show the differences between its commands and the similitudes in their control files.

Program Curriculum

  • What is OpenBSD?
  • What’s New on Version 7.0
  • OS Installation Step-by-Step
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Configuration Files and Important Folders
  • Main and Most Used Commands
  • Application Installation - X11 Environment - Introduction to X
  • User Permissions, Authentication, and Authorization
  • Memory Protection, Cryptography, and Randomization
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Create a Web Server with Apache
  • Installing Databases
  • Set up Authentication with Windows using OpenLDAP
  • Set up a File Server NFS
  • Create a DNS Server with BIND
  • Setting up Firewall Applications
  • Enabling and Configuring OpenNTPD
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

Instructor

Raul Morales

Raul Morales is an Information Security Consultor with more than 20 years in the IT industry, he has a master's degree in Information Security and has multiple technical certifications including Security+, CEH, and CISSP. Raul has been a Sysadmin for 14 years in multiple OS including HPUX, CentOS, RedHat, and of course OpenBSD, during this time being the client-facing consultor determining customer needs and designing the multiple solutions custom-made for their needs. Also, Raul has been a trainer for his multiple customers, mostly onboarding new hires into the process, with the mission to create excellent professionals and leaders in their field. Raul has authored multiple articles about general security topics for Mercadeo.com, peerlyst.com, and his personal blog, all of them in plain language with the goal of sharing the importance of security and seeding curiosity from the general public.

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