Securing UNIX Systems

Course details

To describe how to implement and maintain UNIX networking

• UNIX file attributes
• describe how UNIX file attributes relate to file ownership and access rights.
• UNIX filesystem security
• recognize how to protect the security of entire UNIX filesystems.
• UNIX system security measures
• set security parameters in UNIX kernels and prevent cron and unwanted shutdown security issues.
• Configuring UNIX for security
• change file permissions and implement permission-based system security in UNIX.
• Benchmarking UNIX operating systems
• recognize how to benchmark operating systems, including UNIX, and evaluate the security of their configurations.
• The UNIX password system
• describe the UNIX password system.
• Boot-level and root access control in UNIX
• recognize how to restrict boot-level and root access to UNIX systems.
• Kerberos authentication on UNIX
• recognize how to integrate Kerberos authentication on UNIX systems.
• Implementing access control in UNIX
• design and implement access control policies.
• UNIX Pluggable Authentication Modules
• use Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to control access to system resources in a given scenario.