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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

You're reading from   Mastering Linux Security and Hardening Secure your Linux server and protect it from intruders, malware attacks, and other external threats

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788620307
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Donald A. Tevault Donald A. Tevault
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Running Linux in a Virtual Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Securing User Accounts 3. Securing Your Server with a Firewall 4. Encrypting and SSH Hardening 5. Mastering Discretionary Access Control 6. Access Control Lists and Shared Directory Management 7. Implementing Mandatory Access Control with SELinux and AppArmor 8. Scanning, Auditing, and Hardening 9. Vulnerability Scanning and Intrusion Detection 10. Security Tips and Tricks for the Busy Bee 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using SCAP Workbench


For Red Hat and CentOS machines with a desktop environment installed, we have SCAP Workbench. However, if the last time you ever worked with SCAP Workbench was on Red Hat/CentOS 7.0 or Red Hat/CentOS 7.1, you were likely quite disappointed. Indeed, the early versions of the Workbench were so bad that they weren't even usable. Thankfully, things greatly improved with the introduction of Red Hat 7.2 and CentOS 7.2. Now, the Workbench is quite the nice little tool.

To get it on your CentOS machine, just use the following code:

sudo yum install scap-workbench

Yeah, the package name is just scap-workbench instead of openscap-workbench. I don't know why, but I do know that you'll never find it if you're searching for openscap packages.

Once you get it installed, you'll see its menu item under the System Tools menu.

When you first open the program, you would think that the system would ask you for a root or sudo password. But, it doesn't. We'll see in a moment if that affects us...

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