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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

By : Donald A. Tevault
Book Image

Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

By: Donald A. Tevault

Overview of this book

From creating networks and servers to automating the entire working environment, Linux has been extremely popular with system administrators for the last couple of decades. However, security has always been a major concern. With limited resources available in the Linux security domain, this book will be an invaluable guide in helping you get your Linux systems properly secured. Complete with in-depth explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book begins by helping you set up a practice lab environment and takes you through the core functionalities of securing Linux. You'll practice various Linux hardening techniques and advance to setting up a locked-down Linux server. As you progress, you will also learn how to create user accounts with appropriate privilege levels, protect sensitive data by setting permissions and encryption, and configure a firewall. The book will help you set up mandatory access control, system auditing, security profiles, and kernel hardening, and finally cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques to secure your Linux environment efficiently. By the end of this Linux security book, you will be able to confidently set up a Linux server that will be much harder for malicious actors to compromise.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting up a Secure Linux System
8
Section 2: Mastering File and Directory Access Control (DAC)
11
Section 3: Advanced System Hardening Techniques

Questions

  1. When creating an ACL for a file in a shared directory, what must you first do to make the ACL effective?
    A. Remove all normal permissions from the file for everyone except for the user.
    B. Ensure that the file has the permissions value of 644 set.
    C. Ensure that everyone in the group has read/write permissions for the file.
    D. Ensure that the SUID permission is set for the file.
  2. What is the benefit of setting the SGID permission on a shared group directory?
    A. None. It's a security risk and should never be done.
    B. It prevents members of the group from deleting each others' files.
    C. It makes it so that each file that gets created within the directory will be associated with the group that's also associated with the directory.
    D. It gives anyone who accesses the directory the same privileges as the user of the directory.
  3. Which of the following commands...