Red Hat Security and Server Hardening with exam

Audience and prerequisites

• Needs technical guidance on how to enhance the security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
• Responsible for implementing security policy requirements on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems consistently and in a reproducible, scalable way
• Must be able to demonstrate that systems meet security policy requirements
• Maintains continued adherence to security requirements, including management of security-critical operating system/software updates
• RHCE-level skills highly recommended

Prerequisites for this course

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) certification, or equivalent experience required
• For candidates who have not earned their RHCSA or RHCE certifications, confirmation of the required knowledge can be obtained by passing the online skills assessment

Outline for this course

• Track security updates
  • Understand how Red Hat Enterprise Linux produces updates and how to use yum to perform queries to identify what errata are available.
• Manage software updates
  • Develop a process for applying updates to systems including verifying properties of the update.
• Create file systems
  • Allocate an advanced file system layout and use file system encryption.
• Manage file systems
  • Adjust file system properties through security related options and file system attributes.
• Manage special permissions
  • Work with set user ID (SUID), set group ID (SGID), and sticky (SVTX) permissions and locate files with these permissions enabled.
• Manage additional file access controls
  • Modify default permissions applied to files and directories; work with file access control lists.
• Monitor for file system changes
  • Configure software to monitor the files on your machine for changes.
• Manage user accounts
  • Set password-aging properties for users; audit user accounts.
• Manage pluggable authentication modules (PAMs)
  • Apply changes to PAMs to enforce different types of rules on users.
• Secure console access
  • Adjust properties for various console services to enable or disable settings based on security.
• Install central authentication
  • Install and configure a Red Hat Identity Management server and client.
• Manage central authentication
  • Configure Red Hat Identity Management rules to control both user access to client systems and additional privileges granted to users on those systems.
• Configure system logging
  • Configure remote logging to use transport layer encryption and manage additional logs generated by remote systems.
• Configure system auditing
  • Enable and configure system auditing.
• Control access to network services
  • Manage firewall rules to limit connectivity to network services.