The Enterprise Linux Administrator: Journey to a New Linux Career

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K. HitchcockThe Enterprise Linux Administratorhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8801-6_13

13. Security

Kenneth Hitchcock¹  

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Hampshire, UK

 

As an enterprise Linux administrator, security is of the utmost importance. System or security breaches can spell financial doom for any organization with customer data or financial services.

In this chapter, we will look at the basic security requirements you as an enterprise Linux administrator should know. We will start by looking at the local firewall and SELinux configuration; we will explore what they are and how they should be configured.

The next vital bit of knowledge this chapter looks to impart is around system ...