Implementing AIX Security Features

Course details

This course is designed to help you implement a security policy in an AIX environment. AIX 6.1 features are covered.

Target Audience:

This course is intended for persons who: Want to learn what the security mechanisms are in an AIX system. Will plan, implement, or distribute a security policy in AIX.

The audience for this training includes: AIX technical support individuals System administrators System architects

Objectives:

• Describe security threats to a computer system
• List the AIX commands and components that can meet both the base system and network security threats, including how to configure IPSEC and LDAP
• Configure, distribute, and monitor a security policy and check sox-cobit compliance using AIX Security Expert and LDAP with Active Directory
• Configure the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) feature (AIX 6.1)
• Implement encrypted file systems (AIX 6.1)
• Implement the Trusted Execution feature (AIX 6.1)
• Implement trusted services using the PowerSC IBM product (AIX 6.1 TL6)
• Implement the AIX install time options of Secure by Default and Trusted AIX (AIX 6.1)

Prerequisites:

You should have basic AIX administration experience.

• The AIX prerequisite can be met by attending one of the two following classes or having equivalent AIX skills:
• AIX Version 5L System Administration I: Implementation (AU15) / (Q1314)
• AIX 5L Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals (AW18) / (Q1818)

Content:

• Unit 1 - Introduction to AIX security features
• Unit 2 - AIX base system security
• Unit 3 - AIX network security, topic 1 Securing remote commands
• Exercise 1 - Security in an IT environment
• Exercise 2 - AIX base system security
• Exercise 3 - AIX network security, topic 1 Securing remote commands
• Unit 4 - Implementing and distributing a security policy with AIXpert
• Exercise 3 - AIX network security, topic 2 IPSec
• Exercise 4 - Implementing and distributing a security policy with AIXpert
• Unit 6 - Implementing encrypted file systems
• Unit 7 - Implementing Trusted Execution
• Exercise 5 - Implementing Role Based Access Control
• Exercise 6 - Implementing encrypted file systems
• Exercise 7 - Implementing Trusted Execution
• Unit 9 - Implementing PowerSC, topic 1 Overview and compliance
• Unit 9 - Implementing PowerSC, topic 2 Trusted logs
• Exercise 8 - Implementing LDAP
• Exercise 9 - Implementing trusted logs