RHA 250 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Administration

These sessions will give you the opportunity to familiarise yourself with the lab set-up, to learn how to use the resources you will need when you attempt the tests and to engage with the lab exercises. Contact nti Leeds direct to enrol onto this course.

Course outline:

1. Introduction and User Authentication:

Computer Security,User Authentication, Account Information and Password Management and The Pluggable Authentication Modules(pam).

2 System Monitoring:

Monitoring the Network, Monitoring System Logs, Monitoring the Filesystem and Monitoring Processes.

3 Network and Service Access Controls:

Kernel Level Firewalling, Advanced Kernel Level Firewalling and TCP Wrappers

4 Securing Data:

Introduction to Encryption, Asymmetric Public Key Encryption, Public Key

4pm to 7pm Tuesdays 26th August 2008 through 18th August 2009