COURSE 11100 | 4-DAY SESSION
Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration

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Course outline

Section I: System Performance and Security

• Concepts and Practices
  
• System Faults and Breaches
  
• Method of Fault Analysis
  
• Benefits of System Monitoring
  
• Managing Processes by Account
  
• Hands-on lab: System Monitoring

Section II: System Service Access Controls

• Service and Network Access Controls
  
• System Initialization and Service Management
  
• Service and Application Access Controls
  
• tcp_wrappers Configuration
  
• Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
  
• Hands-on Lab: Controlling access to certain hosts

Section III: Network Resource Access Controls

• Internet Protocol and Routing
  
• IPv6: Dynamic Interface Configuration
  
• IPv6: StaticInterface Configuration
  
• IPv6: Routing Configuration
  
• Netfilter Overview
  
• Rules: General Considerations
  
• Connection Tracking
  
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
  
• IPv6 and ip6tables
  
• Hands-on Lab: Securing Networking

Section IV: Organizing Networked Systems

• Host Name Resolution
  
• DNS-Specific Resolvers
  
• Trace a DNS Query with dig
  
• Exploring DNS with host
  
• Service Profile: DNS
  
• Getting Started with BIND
  
• bind-chroot Package
  
• caching-nameserver Package
  
• Remote Name Daemon Control (rndc)
  
• The DHCP Service
  
• DHCP Overview
  
• Configuring an IPv4 DHCP Server
  
• Hands-on Lab: Implement a Minimal DNS Server

Section V: Network File Sharing Services

• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  
• Network File Service (NFS)
  
• Port options for the Firewall
  
• Samba services
  
• Configuring Samba
  
• Hands-on Lab: Network File Sharing Services

Section VI: Web Services

• Apache Overview
  
• Apache Server Configuration
  
• Virtual Hosts
  
• Apache Access Configuration
  
• CGI
  
• Apache Encrypted Web Server
  
• Squid Web Proxy Cache
  
• Hands-on Lab: Implementing Web (HTTP) Services

Section VII: Electronic Mail Services

• Essential Email Operation
  
• Simple Mail Transport Protocol
  
• Sendmail SMTP Restrictions
  
• Sendmail Operation
  
• Using alternatives to Switch MTAs
  
• Postfix Configuration
  
• Postfix SMTP Restrictions
  
• Postfix Operation
  
• Mail Retrieval Protocols
  
• Hands-on Lab: Electronic Mail

Section VIII: Securing Data

• The Need For Encryption
  
• Symmetric Encryption
  
• Asymmetric Encryption
  
• Public Key Infrastructures
  
• Digital Certificates
  
• Hands-on Lab: Securing Data

Section IX: Account Management

• Account Management
  
• Account Information (Name Service)
  
• Name Service Switch (NSS)
  
• Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
  
• PAM Operation
  
• Utilities and Authentication
  
• Hands-on Lab: Account Management Methods