Mastering Linux Security and Hardening: Secure your Linux server and protect it from intruders, malware attacks, and other external threats

This book has extensive coverage of techniques that will help prevent attackers from breaching your system, by building a much more secure Linux environment. You will learn various security techniques such as SSH hardening, network service detection, setting up firewalls, encrypting file systems, protecting user accounts, authentication processes, and so on. Moving forward, you will also develop hands-on skills with advanced Linux permissions, access control, special modes, and more. Lastly, this book will also cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques to get your work done efficiently.

By the end of this book, you will be confident in delivering a system that will be much harder to compromise.

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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening: Secure your Linux server and protect it from intruders, malware attacks, and other external threats

This book has extensive coverage of techniques that will help prevent attackers from breaching your system, by building a much more secure Linux environment. You will learn various security techniques such as SSH hardening, network service detection, setting up firewalls, encrypting file systems, protecting user accounts, authentication processes, and so on. Moving forward, you will also develop hands-on skills with advanced Linux permissions, access control, special modes, and more. Lastly, this book will also cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques to get your work done efficiently.

By the end of this book, you will be confident in delivering a system that will be much harder to compromise.

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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening: Secure your Linux server and protect it from intruders, malware attacks, and other external threats

Mastering Linux Security and Hardening: Secure your Linux server and protect it from intruders, malware attacks, and other external threats

by Donald A. Tevault
Mastering Linux Security and Hardening: Secure your Linux server and protect it from intruders, malware attacks, and other external threats
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening: Secure your Linux server and protect it from intruders, malware attacks, and other external threats

Mastering Linux Security and Hardening: Secure your Linux server and protect it from intruders, malware attacks, and other external threats

by Donald A. Tevault

Overview

This book has extensive coverage of techniques that will help prevent attackers from breaching your system, by building a much more secure Linux environment. You will learn various security techniques such as SSH hardening, network service detection, setting up firewalls, encrypting file systems, protecting user accounts, authentication processes, and so on. Moving forward, you will also develop hands-on skills with advanced Linux permissions, access control, special modes, and more. Lastly, this book will also cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques to get your work done efficiently.

By the end of this book, you will be confident in delivering a system that will be much harder to compromise.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781788625067
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 01/11/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 376
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

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 literally the world over from the comfort of his living room. He's also a Linux security researcher for an IoT security company.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
  1. Running Linux in a virtual environment
  2. Securing user accounts
  3. Securing your server with a Firewall
  4. Encrypting and SSH Hardening
  5. Mastering Discretionary Access Control
  6. Access Control Lists and Shared Directory Management
  7. Implementing Mandatory Access Control with SELinux and AppArmor
  8. Scanning, Auditing and Hardening
  9. Vulnerability Scanning and Intrusion Detection
  10. Security Tips & Tricks for the Busy Bee
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