December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
11h 5m
English
Whenever there is a spike in traffic, in order to make business on-going, we have to immediately make provision for new servers to serve the increased traffic. Hardening of these new servers takes time but provisioning non-hardened servers in production is also a risk.
In the earlier sections, we looked into the various hardening-based approaches, be it from PAM modules to OSSEC. One challenge in ensuring its implementation on all servers is that it takes a long time to configure a server to have all of the hardening standards.
In order to solve this challenge, we should use an image-based approach. In this approach, we create a pre-baked image, which is fully partitioned and hardened ...
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