Course Description
In this course, automating repetitive tasks with cron will be covered. You'll also learn how to harden Unix hosts from common Unix attacks.
Learning Objectives
Task Scheduling
- start the course
- recognize how cron schedules tasks on a Unix system
- configure a repeating system cron job
Securing Unix
- identify how hardening can secure a host
- describe how the PKI hierarchy enhances security
- identify attack methods in order to mitigate them
- view network packets using the tcpdump command
Practice: Automating and Hardening Unix
- configure repeating cron jobs and harden Unix