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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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Installing and updating ClamAV and maldet

Although we don't have to worry much about viruses infecting our Linux machines, we do need to worry about sharing infected files with Windows users. ClamAV is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) antivirus solution that can either run as a standalone program or can be integrated with a mail server daemon, such as Postfix. It's a traditional antivirus scanner that works pretty much the same as the antivirus program on your typical Windows workstation. The included freshclam utility allows you to update virus signatures.

Linux Malware Detect, which you'll often see abbreviated as either LMD or maldet, is another FOSS antivirus program that can work alongside ClamAV. (To save typing, I'll just refer to it as LMD from now on.) As far as I know, it's not available in the repositories of any Linux distro, but it&apos...

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