Red Hat Linux Networking & Security Administration

Unit 1: System Performance and Security

  • Concepts and Practices
  • System Faults and Breaches
  • Method of Fault Analysis
  • Benefits of System Monitoring
  • Managing Processes by Account
  • Hands-on lab: System Monitoring

Unit 2: System Service Access Controls

  • Service and Network Access Controls
  • System Initialization and Service Management
  • Service and Application Access Controls
  • tcp_wrappers Configuration
  • Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
  • Hands-on Lab: Controlling access to certain hosts

Unit 3: Network Resource Access Controls

  • Internet Protocol and Routing
  • IPv6: Dynamic Interface Configuration
  • IPv6: StaticInterface Configuration
  • IPv6: Routing Configuration
  • Netfilter Overview
  • Rules: General Considerations
  • Connection Tracking
  • Network Address Translation (NAT)
  • IPv6 and ip6tables
  • Hands-on Lab: Securing Networking

Unit 4: Organizing Networked Systems

  • Host Name Resolution
  • DNS-Specific Resolvers
  • Trace a DNS Query with dig
  • Exploring DNS with host
  • Service Profile: DNS
  • Getting Started with BIND
  • bind-chroot Package
  • caching-nameserver Package
  • Remote Name Daemon Control (rndc)
  • The DHCP Service
  • DHCP Overview
  • Configuring an IPv4 DHCP Server
  • Hands-on Lab: Implement a Minimal DNS Server

Unit 5: Network File Sharing Services

  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Network File Service (NFS)
  • Port options for the Firewall
  • Samba services
  • Configuring Samba
  • Hands-on Lab: Network File Sharing Services

Unit 6: Web Services

  • Apache Overview
  • Apache Server Configuration
  • Virtual Hosts
  • Apache Access Configuration
  • CGI
  • Apache Encrypted Web Server
  • Squid Web Proxy Cache
  • Hands-on Lab: Implementing Web (HTTP) Services

Unit 7: Electronic Mail Services

  • Essential Email Operation
  • Simple Mail Transport Protocol
  • Sendmail SMTP Restrictions
  • Sendmail Operation
  • Using alternatives to Switch MTAs
  • Postfix Configuration
  • Postfix SMTP Restrictions
  • Postfix Operation
  • Mail Retrieval Protocols
  • Hands-on Lab: Electronic Mail

Unit 8: Securing Data

  • The Need For Encryption
  • Symmetric Encryption
  • Asymmetric Encryption
  • Public Key Infrastructures
  • Digital Certificates
  • Hands-on Lab: Securing Data

Unit 9: Account Management

  • Account Management
  • Account Information (Name Service)
  • Name Service Switch (NSS)
  • Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
  • PAM Operation
  • Utilities and Authentication
  • Hands-on Lab: Account Management Methods

DURATION

  • Full Time - 4 Days - 32 Hours
  • Part Time - 2 hrs / day - 32 Hours, Monday - Friday