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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

By : Donald A. Tevault
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

By: Donald A. Tevault

Overview of this book

This book has extensive coverage of techniques that will help prevent attackers from breaching your system, by building a much more secure Linux environment. You will learn various security techniques such as SSH hardening, network service detection, setting up firewalls, encrypting file systems, protecting user accounts, authentication processes, and so on. Moving forward, you will also develop hands-on skills with advanced Linux permissions, access control, special modes, and more. Lastly, this book will also cover best practices and troubleshooting techniques to get your work done efficiently. By the end of this book, you will be confident in delivering a system that will be much harder to compromise.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface

Using SCAP Workbench


For Red Hat and CentOS machines with a desktop environment installed, we have SCAP Workbench. However, if the last time you ever worked with SCAP Workbench was on Red Hat/CentOS 7.0 or Red Hat/CentOS 7.1, you were likely quite disappointed. Indeed, the early versions of the Workbench were so bad that they weren't even usable. Thankfully, things greatly improved with the introduction of Red Hat 7.2 and CentOS 7.2. Now, the Workbench is quite the nice little tool.

To get it on your CentOS machine, just use the following code:

sudo yum install scap-workbench

Yeah, the package name is just scap-workbench instead of openscap-workbench. I don't know why, but I do know that you'll never find it if you're searching for openscap packages.

Once you get it installed, you'll see its menu item under the System Tools menu.

When you first open the program, you would think that the system would ask you for a root or sudo password. But, it doesn't. We'll see in a moment if that affects us...