Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud (RH415)

As a result of attending this course, students should be able to use security technologies included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux to manage security risk and help meet compliance requirements.

• Analyze and remediate system compliance by using OpenSCAP and SCAP Workbench, and using and customizing baseline policy content that is provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Monitor security-relevant activity on your systems with the kernel's Audit infrastructure.
• Explain and implement advanced SELinux techniques to restrict access by users, processes, and virtual machines.
• Confirm the integrity of files and their permissions with AIDE.
• Prevent unauthorized USB devices from being used with USBGuard.
• Protect data at rest but provide secure automatic decryption at boot by using Network-Bound Device Encryption (NBDE).
• Proactively identify risks and misconfigurations of systems and remediate them with Red Hat Insights.
• Analyze and remediate compliance at scale with OpenSCAP, Red Hat Insights, Red Hat Satellite, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Course summary

• Manage compliance with OpenSCAP.
• Enable SELinux on a server from a disabled state, perform basic analysis of the system policy, and mitigate risk with advanced SELinux techniques.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues with Red Hat Insights.
• Monitor activity and changes on a server with Linux Audit and AIDE.
• Protect data from compromise with USBGuard and storage encryption.
• Manage authentication controls with PAM.
• Manually apply provided Ansible Playbooks to automate mitigation of security and compliance issues.
• Scale OpenSCAP and Red Hat Insights management with Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

System Administrator - responsible for supporting the company’s physical and virtual infrastructure, systems, and servers IT Security Practitioner / Compliance & Auditor - responsible for ensuring the technology environment is protected from attacks and is in compliance with security/privacy rules and regulations. Automation Architect - Engineer or architect responsible for the company’s automation development and optimizing cloud tools and infrastructure to achieve automation goals.
 

• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (EX294 / RHCE) certification or equivalent Red Hat Enterprise Linux knowledge and experience.
Technology considerations
• If the instructor intends to demonstrate Red Hat Insights, internet access and appropriate entitlements are required.

1. Managing Security and Risk Define and implement strategies to manage security on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. 2. Automating Configuration and Remediation with Ansible Remediate configuration and security issues automatically with Ansible Playbooks. 3. Protecting Data with LUKS and NBDE Encrypt data on storage devices with LUKS, and use NBDE to manage automatic decryption when servers are booted. 4. Restricting USB Device Access Protect systems from rogue USB device access with USBGuard. 5. Controlling Authentication with PAM Manage authentication, authorization, session settings, and password controls by configuring Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). 6. Recording System Events with Audit Record and inspect system events relevant to security by using the Linux kernel's Audit system and supporting tools. 7. Monitoring File System Changes Detect and analyze changes to a server's file systems and their contents by using AIDE. 8. Mitigating Risk with SELinux Improve security and confinement between processes by using SELinux and advanced SELinux techniques and analysis. 9. Managing Compliance with OpenSCAP Evaluate and remediate a server's compliance with security policies by using OpenSCAP. 10. Analyzing and Remediating Issues with Red Hat Insights Identify, detect, and correct common issues and security vulnerabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems by using Red Hat Insights. 11. Automating Compliance with Red Hat Satellite Automate and scale OpenSCAP compliance checks by using Red Hat Satellite. 12. Comprehensive Review Review tasks from Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud.