LFCS Additional Networking Topics
by Andrew Mallett
Securing your Linux server on the network and understanding network routing is a great skill to have. This course will teach you how to secure your system with a firewall and configure networking and network address translation (NAT).
What you'll learn
Protecting your servers from the internet and obscuring your client systems from the internet are huge cyber security mitigations. In this course, LFCS Additional Networking Topics, you’ll learn to implement network security mitigations. First, you’ll explore raw packet filtering techniques. Next, you’ll discover how scripted applications like firewalld and UFW can simplify the firewall management. Finally, you’ll learn how to combine raw packet filtering into your simplified management to ensure all aspects are available. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Linux networking needed to secure network access.
About the author
Andrew is an all around Linux professional with in depth knowledge of the OS and this is supported with scripting in bash, perl, python and ruby and application development in C, C++ and Java.
Having worked for many years in training, Andrew has developed automated course build systems after endless time wasted on Friday nights. The first build system he built was aptly named
"Friday nights." This has inspired his interest in all things deployment related. He has authored training courses on M... moreicrosoft Deployment Toolkit as well as countless bespoke PXE solutions
to training organizations.
His commitment to the community shows in the amount of content that he has uploaded to his YouTube channel since theurbanpenguin was founded in 2009, as well as more recently helping with the
Google / Raspberry Pi CoderDojo project. He also teaches Linux in schools.
Over the years Andrew has taught Novell, Microsoft, Lotus Notes, Citrix, Solaris as well as Linux. It is Linux, though, where his love is. Andrew is able to help you understand how the product will fit into your organization and understand the heterogeneous environment we all work in.