Linux Security: The Complete Iptables Firewall Guide

Course details

Welcome to the most complete and up-to-date course for learning and using Netfilter &Iptables Linux Firewall.

Taught by a DevOps Engineer and Professional Trainer.

Just starting out with Linux Security and Iptables? Perfect. This course starts out assuming you're new to netfilter, iptables and Linux Firewalls.

Or, you've already tried to learn iptables by yourself and now you want to put all pieces together. I'm here to help you, this course has everything you need to know about netfilter and iptables.

You'll have life time access and you can return and look for a specific iptables match, target or option.

You'll have access to my GitHub repository where you'll find all course examples and many others.

The course contains many quizzes for you to take to test your knowledge.

There are many courses on Linux Security or Iptables. Why should you learn from me?

• I'm A Practitioner. Welcome to the real world! I have almost 20 years experience as a Linux Sysadmin, Security Engineer and Full Stack Developer. I use Linux on a daily basis.

• I'm a Educator and I know how to make asyllabus. For the last 10 years I've trained thousands of people on Linux, Networking, Security or Programming.

  
  

The topics covered in this course are:

• Iptables CHAINS and tables

• CHAINS and tables traversal

• Anatomy of an iptables rule

• Iptables matches (implicit &explicit)

• Filter traffic by country (GeoIP)

• Iptables targets

• NAT

• PortForwarding

• Automation using shell scripts

• How to use iptables best-practices

Every topic includes many live examples.

After taking this course, you'll be able to:

• Have in-depth understanding about netfilter/iptables architecture

• Understand iptables CHAINS and tables

• Understand how a Firewall works

• Create iptables rules that filter incoming, outgoing or routed traffic based on any possible criteria including country the packet is coming from or destined to (GeoIP)

• LOG malicious traffic

• Prevent DoS Attacks

• Optimize iptables firewalls

• Automate different firewall security tasks using shell scripts

• Configure NAT and MASQUERADE

• Configure PortForwarding