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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

By : Donald A. Tevault
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

3.9 (7)
By: Donald A. Tevault

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Summary

So, we've made a good start to our journey into Linux security and hardening. In this chapter, we looked at why it's just as important to know about securing and hardening Linux systems as it is to know how to secure and harden Windows systems. We provided a few examples of how a poorly-configured Linux system can be compromised, and we mentioned that learning about Linux security could be good for your career. After that, we looked at how to set up a virtualized lab environment using VirtualBox and Cygwin.

In the next chapter, we'll look at locking down user accounts, and ensuring that the wrong people never get administrative privileges. I'll see you there.

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