Description

Do you have the crucial job of protecting your private and company systems from malicious attacks and undefined application behavior? Are you looking to secure your Linux systems with improved access controls? If yes, this Learning Path is for you.

Packt’s Video Learning Path is a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

●       Analyze SELinux events and selectively enable or disable SELinux enforcement

●      Secure network communications through SELinux access controls

●      Analyze SELinux policies in depth

Let’s take a quick look at your learning journey. This Learning Path will show you how to enhance your system’s secure state across Linux distributions, helping you keep application vulnerabilities at bay. It covers the core and advanced SELinux concepts and shows you how to leverage SELinux to improve the protection measures of a Linux system. You will learn the SELinux fundamentals and all of SELinux’s configuration handles including conditional policies, constraints, policy types, and audit capabilities with examples of situations and issues you will probably come across as an administrator.

By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll learn essential skills and techniques to ward off traditional security permissions and effectively secure your Linux systems with SELinux.

Meet Your Expert:

We have the best works of the following esteemed author to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

Sven Vermeulen is a long-term contributor to various free software projects and the author of various online guides and resources. He got his first taste of free software in 1997 and never looked back. In 2003, he joined the ranks of the Gentoo Linux project as a documentation developer and has since worked in several roles, including Gentoo Foundation trustee, council member, project lead for various documentation initiatives, and (his current role) project lead for Gentoo Hardened SELinux integration and the system integrity project. During this time, Sven gained expertise in several technologies, ranging from OS-level knowledge to application servers. He used his interest in security to guide his projects further in the areas of security guides using SCAP languages, Mandatory Access Controls through SELinux, authentication with PAM, (application) firewalling, and more. Within SELinux, Sven contributed several policies to the Reference Policy project, and he is an active participant in policy development and user space development projects.
Who this course is for:

   This Learning Path is for Linux administrators who want to control the secure state of their systems.

Requirements

   No prior knowledge of SELinux is needed.

Last Updated 11/2017