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Course Overview

This learning path will propel your budding security career to a whole new level. You'll start right from the basics, and then gradually achieve mastery in Linux security by learning measures such as system hardening, revere engineering, Binary analysis, mitigating rootkits and even performing forensic analysis on Linux systems. By the end of this learning path, you'll have all the Linux expertise you need to push your security career forward.

What You Will Learn

  • Trace Linux process's and learn how an ELF file gets loaded and executed
  • Learn about malware protection techniques and how to defeat them
  • Secure Linux based infrastructure and avoiding any pitfalls that may lead to breaches
  • Learn to develop a web application using Meteor.js
  • Understand how to use rootkit detection tools
  • Perform vulnerability assessments and how to set up and configure a SIEM
  • Administer and support Linux in your environment
  • Learning of how assembly language works and interacts with hardware

Program Curriculum

Content
  • Chapter 1: Linux Installation
  • Chapter 2: Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) Essentials
  • Chapter 3: Advanced CLI Usage
  • Chapter 4: Linux Development Tools
  • Chapter 5: Web Development Project
  • Chapter 6: Web Server Setup, Host Configuration, and App Deployment
  • Chapter 7: Linux User Management
  • Chapter 8: Linux Network Administration

Content
  • Chapter 1: Operating Systems and Rootkits
  • Chapter 2: Compromising Linux with a Rootkit
  • Chapter 3: Detecting Rookits
  • Chapter 4: Monitoring Using Standard Tools
  • Chapter 5: Securing Linux

Content
  • Chapter 1: Hardening Concepts
  • Chapter 2: Filesystem Configuration
  • Chapter 3: Services
  • Chapter 4: Network Configuration
  • Chapter 5: Logging and Auditing
  • Chapter 6: Access, Authentication, and Authorization
  • Chapter 7: System Maintenance
  • Chapter 8: Malware Detection and SIEM

Content
  • Chapter 1: Linux as an Architecture
  • Chapter 2: Forensically Reviewing Linux

Content
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to Reverse Engineering
  • Chapter 2: Setting up the Lab Environment
  • Chapter 3: Shell Code Fundamentals
  • Chapter 4: Format String Flaws
  • Chapter 5: Stack Buffer Overflows
  • Chapter 6: Identifying and Exploiting Kernel Flaws
  • Chapter 7: Heap Overflows
  • Chapter 8: Wrapping up and Final Remarks

Content
  • Chapter 1: Understanding ELF Binary Format
  • Chapter 2: Basic Binary Analysis
  • Chapter 3: Process Tracing

Content
  • Chapter 1: Software Protection Methods
  • Chapter 2: Fundamental Malware Analysis
  • Chapter 3: Linux Kernel Module and Rootkit Analysis

Content
  • Chapter 1 : Introduction and Environment Preparation
  • Chapter 2: Configure Intrusion Detection
  • Chapter 3: Configure Encrypted Storage
  • Chapter 4: Restrict USB Devices
  • Chapter 5: Manage PAM Authentication
  • Chapter 6: Configure System Auditing
  • Chapter 7: Configure SELinux
  • Chapter 8: Use OpenSCAP and Other Tools to Audit Security Compliance
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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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