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SELinux System Administration

By : Sven Vermeulen
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SELinux System Administration

By: Sven Vermeulen

Overview of this book

NSA Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a set of patches and added utilities to the Linux kernel to incorporate a strong, flexible, mandatory access control architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. With its fine-grained yet flexible approach, it is no wonder Linux distributions are firing up SELinux as a default security measure. SELinux System Administration covers the majority of SELinux features through a mix of real-life scenarios, descriptions, and examples. Everything an administrator needs to further tune SELinux to suit their needs are present in this book. This book touches on various SELinux topics, guiding you through the configuration of SELinux contexts, definitions, and the assignment of SELinux roles, and finishes up with policy enhancements. All of SELinux's configuration handles, be they conditional policies, constraints, policy types, or audit capabilities, are covered in this book with genuine examples that administrators might come across. By the end, SELinux System Administration will have taught you how to configure your Linux system to be more secure, powered by a formidable mandatory access control.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Thomas Fischer is a Computer and IT security specialist since the last 15 years. He is experienced in most fields of IT security and is a master in different programming languages. He was the CEO of a German web and IT company over eight years, and also was also the system architect and administrator for various companies in the professional bike sport scene, Germany. He studied computer networking and security and safety engineering in Furtwangen in the Black Forest. A specialist had made talks at different conferences on the topics of web security and the Linux workstation. Thomas Fischer took part in different international IT security war games and the ICTF 2012. When he is not busy with his machine, he enjoys long distance cycling or extreme mountain bike races.

Dominick Grift has been an SELinux contributor and enthusiast. He has almost 10 years of experience in providing SELinux support to the community. He has been a reference policy contributor and co-maintainer, and Fedora SELinux policy co-maintainer.