Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud

Audience for this course

System administrators, IT security administrators, IT security engineers, and other professionals responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and managing the security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and ensuring their compliance with the organization’s security policies.

Prerequisites for this course

• Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE^®), or demonstrate equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience

Course outline

• Manage security and risk
  • Define strategies to manage security on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
• Automate configuration and remediation with Ansible
  • Remediate configuration and security issues with Ansible Playbooks.
• Protect data with LUKS and NBDE
  • Encrypt data on storage devices with LUKS and use NBDE to manage automatic decryption when servers are booted.
• Restrict USB device access
  • Protect system from rogue USB device access with USBGuard.
• Control authentication with PAM
  • Manage authentication, authorization, session settings, and password controls by configuring pluggable authentication modules (PAMs).
• Record system events with audit
  • Record and inspect system events relevant to security, using the Linux kernel’s audit subsystem and supporting tools.
• Monitor file system changes
  • Detect and analyze changes to a server’s file systems and their contents using AIDE.
• Mitigate risk with SELinux
  • Improve security and confinement between processes by using SELinux and advanced SELinux techniques and analyses.
• Manage compliance with OpenSCAP
  • Evaluate and remediate a server’s compliance with security policies by using OpenSCAP.
• Automate compliance with Red Hat Satellite
  • Automate and scale your ability to perform OpenSCAP checks and remediate compliance issues using Red Hat Satellite.
• Analyze and remediate issues with Red Hat Insights
  • Identify, detect, and correct common issues and security vulnerabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems by using Red Hat Insights.
• Perform a comprehensive review
  • Review the content covered in this course by completing hands-on review exercises.