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SELINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION. SECOND EDITION IBD

PACKT PUBLISHING
12 / 2016
9781787126954
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Sinopsis

Ward off traditional security permissions and effectively secure your Linux systems with SELinux Key Features Leverage SELinux to improve the secure state of your Linux systemA clear approach to adopting SELinux within your organizationEssential skills and techniques to help further your system administration career Book DescriptionDo you have the crucial job of protecting your private and company systems from malicious attacks and undefined application behavior? Are you looking to secure your Linux systems with improved access controls? Look no further, intrepid administrator! This book will show you how to enhance your systemâÇÖs secure state across Linux distributions, helping you keep application vulnerabilities at bay.This book covers the core SELinux concepts and shows you how to leverage SELinux to improve the protection measures of a Linux system. You will learn the SELinux fundamentals and all of SELinuxâÇÖs configuration handles including conditional policies, constraints, policy types, and audit capabilities. These topics are paired with genuine examples of situations and issues you may come across as an administrator. In addition, you will learn how to further harden the virtualization offering of both libvirt (sVirt) and Docker through SELinux.By the end of the book you will know how SELinux works and how you can tune it to meet your needs. What you will learnAnalyze SELinux events and selectively enable or disable SELinux enforcementManage Linux users and associate them with the right role and permission setSecure network communications through SELinux access controlsTune the full service flexibility by dynamically assigning resource labelsáHandle SELinux access patterns enforced through the systemQuery the SELinux policy in depth