Module 17 Overview: Linux Security Best Practices
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>> Hey, Cybrarians.
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>> Welcome back to the Linux+ course here at Cybrary.
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>> I'm your instructor, Rob Goelz.
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In today's lesson,
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>> we're going to be moving into Module 17,
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>> where we're going to cover security best practices.
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Upon completion of today's lesson,
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you are going to be able to plan
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>> for the security best-practice objectives
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>> that are going to be on the Linux+ exam,
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and then we're going to talk about
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>> the content plan for Module 17
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>> and how it relates to the exam objectives.
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>> What will you take away from this module?
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Well, we're going to talk about
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security best practices in Linux,
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and we're going to talk about
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>> why these practices are implemented.
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>> We're going to use that information in this module
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>> when we go forward to protect your systems,
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>> and also we're going to modify Linux
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as directed to secure the systems.
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Overall, this is going to help us
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>> to defend our systems from compromise.
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>> In this module, we're going to
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protect our boot up with boot security.
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We're also going to talk about
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>> how we can validate logins
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>> using multi-factor authentication.
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>> We're going to discuss remote authentication
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and securing LDAP.
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Then we're going to talk about how we secure Kerberos
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>> and disable SSH root login.
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>> We're going to talk about enforcing PKI
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>> and password-less logins,
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>> and then putting apps in jail with chroot.
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>> We're going to talk about
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>> enforcing no share IDs and denying hosts.
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>> We're going to talk about disk partitioning
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and changing default ports.
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We're going to disable
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>> or uninstall non-secure services,
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>> enable SSL and TLS,
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>> and turn on auditing with auditd,
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>> and also monitor CVEs.
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>> Finally, we're going to talk about
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discouraging and disabling USB devices,
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how we encrypt disks using LUKS.
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We're going to talk about restricting job scheduling,
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disabling Control Alt Delete,
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>> and adding banner messages.
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>> In this lesson,
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>> we covered the security best practices
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>> that are covered on the Linux+ exam,
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>> and then we talked about how the content in Module 17
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>> maps to those objectives.
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>> Thanks so much for being here,
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>> and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson.
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