RHS333 Red Hat Enterprise Security: Network Services

    

Summary:
This course trains students with RHCE-level competency to understand, prevent, detect, and properly respond to sophisticated security threats aimed at enterprise systems. The course equips system administrators and security professionals with the skills and knowledge to harden computers against both internal and external attacks, providing in-depth analysis of the ever-changing threat models as they pertain to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The course builds on the security skills developed in other Red Hat training courses so that administrators can design and implement an adequate security profile for critical enterprise systems.

Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for system administrators, consultants, and other IT professionals responsible for the planning, implementation, and maintenance of network servers. While the emphasis is on running these services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the content and labs will assume its use, system administrators and others using proprietary forms of UNIX may also find many elements of this course relevant.

Topics:

• The Threat Model and Protection Methods
• Basic Service Security
• Cryptography
• Logging and NTP
• BIND and DNS Security
• Network Authentication RPC, NIS, and Kerberos
• Network File System
• OpenSSH
• Electronic Mail with Send mail
• Postfix
• FTP
• Apache security
• Intrusion Detection and Recovery
• Hypervisor Details
• Virtualization Advanced Techniques

Prerequisites:
Students should have RH253, RH300, or RHCE certification or equivalent work experience. Students should also already know the essential elements of how to configure the services covered, as this course will be focusing on more advanced topics from the outset.

Last Update: May 23, 2012