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RHEL 8: Managing Security

Security in Linux has never been so important. This course will teach you the skills needed to implement Mandatory Access Control Lists (SELinux) and key-based authentication.

Andrew Mallett - Pluralsight course - RHEL 8: Managing Security
by Andrew Mallett

What you'll learn

Keeping your data secure and your systems protected in now a legal requirement in most nations. In this course, RHEL 8: Managing Security, you’ll learn to develop a mindset to keep your systems secure. First, you’ll explore implementing key-based authentication to disable password access via SSH. Next, you’ll discover the reasons why SELinux is required and should never be disabled. Finally, you’ll learn how to implement SELinux policies to secure your system making adjustments for custom locations. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 needed to deploy systems in a public facing environment.

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About the author

Andrew Mallett - Pluralsight course - RHEL 8: Managing Security
Andrew Mallett

Andrew is a committed evangelist of the Linux Operating System and the concept of community and freedom that it provides. He has worked as a technical trainer since 1995 and has taught throughout the world, including Australia, the US, Germany and Eastern Europe. Andrew started teaching Linux in 2004 when Novell acquired SUSE and has been a long time supporter of Novell and provides SYSOP support the the Certifed Novell Instructor community on Linux. Andrew founded theurbanpenguin and has been submitting video training material to his YouTube channel since 2009 and currently has over 8,500 subscribers and 1.6 Million views. Andrew has had two publications with Packt: Citrix Access Gateway VPX Essentials (2012) and Citrix XenApp (2013).

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