Managing Software, System Services and Auditing

Overview/Description
To introduce utilities and processes for managing software and auditing systems

Target Audience
Any individual with technical security responsibilities, including system/network administrators and security officers/administrators; managers or technical staff who wish to demonstrate a technical understanding of a broad range of security-related issues and technologies

Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of networking internetworking concepts and associated hardware

Expected Duration
230 Minutes

Objectives:

Managing Software, System Services and Auditing

  • detail different security log types and analyze their contents.
  • describe how to filter, store, and manage log files.
  • discuss audit assessment reports and compliance.
  • enable and utilize a security log file.
  • describe some useful auditing tools and utilities that are used to simplify auditing.
  • apply upgrade patches and software upgrades to UNIX systems.
  • install software using the Debian package management tool and RPM, and discover information about packages using RPM.
  • describe boot services in UNIX.
  • describe the boot process in UNIX.
  • describe how to limit services launched by inetd and xinetd.
  • decide which services to disable or remove in a UNIX system.


    • Course Number: 111826_eng