RH413: Red Hat Server Hardening Training @ Kochi India
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When:
March 14, 2016 – March 17, 2016 all-day
2016-03-14T00:00:00+05:30
2016-03-18T00:00:00+05:30
Where:
Sappio Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd.
Kochi
Kerala
India
Kochi
Kerala
India
Contact:
Red Hat Red Hat COE
RH413: Red Hat Server Hardening
Secure a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system to comply with security policy requirements
Red Hat® Server Hardening (RH413) builds on a student’s Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) certification or equivalent experience to provide an understanding of how to secure a Red Hat Enterprise Linux® system to comply with security policy requirements.
Course overview
Course content summary
- Review errata and apply them to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Use special permissions and file system access control lists
- Manage users and password-aging policy requirements
- Install and configure Red Hat Identity Management tools
- Understand system auditing
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.
Recommended next exam or course
- Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening exam (EX413)
- Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning (RH442)
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