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Getting started with SELinux System Administration [Video]

By : Sven Vermeulen
Book Image

Getting started with SELinux System Administration [Video]

By: Sven Vermeulen

Overview of this book

Do you have the crucial job of protecting your private and company systems from malicious attacks and undefined application behavior? Are you looking to secure your Linux systems with improved access controls? Look no further, intrepid administrator! This course will show you how to enhance your system's secure state across Linux distributions, helping you keep application vulnerabilities at bay. This video course covers the core SELinux concepts and shows you how to leverage SELinux to improve the protection measures of a Linux system. You will learn the SELinux fundamentals and all of SELinux's configuration handles including conditional policies, constraints, policy types, and audit capabilities. These topics are paired with genuine examples of situations and issues you will probably come across as an administrator.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 1
Fundamental SELinux Concepts
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Section 2
Providing More Security to Linux
A Linux user with access to sensitive information could easily leak that out to the public, manipulate the behavior of the applications he or she launches, and do many other things that affect the security of the system. This video will show you how you could deal with this risk and provide more security to your system. - Use Linux security modules - Extend regular DAC with SELInux - Restrict root privileges - Enable SELinux support