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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

Appendix 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in these other books by Packt:

Linux Device Drivers Development John Madieu

ISBN: 978-1-78528-000-9

  • Use kernel facilities to develop powerful drivers
  • Develop drivers for widely used I2C and SPI devices and use the regmap API
  • Write and support devicetree from within your drivers
  • Program advanced drivers for network and frame buffer devices
  • Delve into the Linux irqdomain API and write interrupt controller drivers
  • Enhance your skills with regulator and PWM frameworks
  • Develop measurement system drivers with IIO framework
  • Get the best from memory management and the DMA subsystem
  • Access and manage GPIO subsystems and develop GPIO controller drivers

Mastering Linux Kernel Development Raghu Bharadwaj

ISBN: 978-1-78588-305-7

  • Comprehend processes and files—the core abstraction mechanisms of the Linux kernel that promote effective simplification and dynamism
  • Decipher process scheduling and understand effective capacity utilization under general and real-time dispositions
  • Simplify and learn more about process communication techniques through signals and IPC mechanisms
  • Capture the rudiments of memory by grasping the key concepts and principles of physical and virtual memory management
  • Take a sharp and precise look at all the key aspects of interrupt management and the clock subsystem
  • Understand concurrent execution on SMP platforms through kernel synchronization and locking techniques