Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud

• System Administrator- responsible for supporting the company’s physical and virtual infrastructure, systems, and servers
• IT Security Practitioner / Compliance & Auditor- responsible for ensuring the technology environment is protected from attacks and is in compliance with security/privacy rules and regulations.
• Automation Architect- Engineer or architect responsible for the company’s automation development and optimizing cloud tools and infrastructure to achieve automation goals.

After this course participants should be able to:

• Manage compliance with OpenSCAP.
• Enable SELinux on a server from a disabled state, perform basic analysis of the system policy, and mitigate risk with advanced SELinux techniques.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues with Red Hat Insights.
• Monitor activity and changes on a server with Linux Audit and AIDE.
• Protect data from compromise with USBGuard and storage encryption.
• Manage authentication controls with PAM.
• Manually apply provided Ansible Playbooks to automate mitigation of security and compliance issues.
• Scale OpenSCAP and Red Hat Insights management with Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

1. Managing Security and Risk
   Define and implement strategies to manage security on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
2. Automating Configuration and Remediation with Ansible
   Remediate configuration and security issues automatically with Ansible Playbooks.
3. Protecting Data with LUKS and NBDE
   Encrypt data on storage devices with LUKS, and use NBDE to manage automatic decryption when servers are booted.
4. Restricting USB Device Access
   Protect systems from rogue USB device access with USBGuard.
5. Controlling Authentication with PAM
   Manage authentication, authorization, session settings, and password controls by configuring Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM).
6. Recording System Events with Audit
   Record and inspect system events relevant to security by using the Linux kernel's Audit system and supporting tools.
7. Monitoring File System Changes
   Detect and analyze changes to a server's file systems and their contents by using AIDE.
8. Mitigating Risk with SELinux
   Improve security and confinement between processes by using SELinux and advanced SELinux techniques and analysis.
9. Managing Compliance with OpenSCAP
   Evaluate and remediate a server's compliance with security policies by using OpenSCAP.
10. Analyzing and Remediating Issues with Red Hat Insights
    Identify, detect, and correct common issues and security vulnerabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems by using Red Hat Insights.
11. Automating Compliance with Red Hat Satellite
    Automate and scale OpenSCAP compliance checks by using Red Hat Satellite.
12. Comprehensive Review
    Review tasks from Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud.

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294 / RHCE) certification or equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience.

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• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Security: Linux exam (EX415)

• Official course book provided to participants