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Scheduled Tasks using Bash

In this lab, you’ll practice running several tasks related to security analysis and automating these tasks to run on a schedule. When you’re finished, you’ll have automated a security scanning and log centralization and analysis process..

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(31 reviews)
Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 1h 30m
Published
Clock icon Apr 24, 2023

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Run the Security Scanning Service

    In this lab, you will be using the security tool, Lynis, to scan various hosts for misconfigurations.

  3. Challenge

    Consolidate and Centralize All Logs

    In this challenge, you are going to pull logs from remote servers onto the bastion.

  4. Challenge

    Analyze the Log Data for Specific Pieces of Information

    In this challenge, you are going to search and filter for specific information in the logs.

  5. Challenge

    Create a Scheduled Job to Automate the Process

    In this challenge, you are going to automate and schedule the tasks you completed in the previous challenges.

  6. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

Miguel Saavedra is an author, solutions architect, and Instructor specializing in AWS, big data, automation, and security. He has worked in several companies in the finance/fintech, education, and medical industries as well as some government projects. He has published and conducted research on both cloud and on-premise solutions for big data focusing on network analytics, and machine learning. He also designs highly available and automated CICD toolchains for high throughput microservices on AWS.

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