National CAE Designated Institution
  • Online, Instructor-Led

This course provides an introduction to Linux administration. Topics include installation, configuration, mounting drives, user and group administration, file system administration and management, process control, and network and computer security concepts and tools. 

Learning Objectives

  • Partition, format, and install Linux in a virtual machine, including updating system
  • Perform file manipulation and file system navigation
  • Perform access control manipulation, including changing permissions, adding users and groups
  • Perform advancing searching using regular expressions
  • Perform security functions using symmetric and asymmetric encryption
  • Find and draw upon resources available in Linux for administrative tasks

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Systems Administration

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.