LinuxHardening

Lab Assignment

There are two parts to this Netlab assignment. Complete all of the steps in each part. Although you are not required to provide screenshots, you should still complete all of the steps for practice.

Lab Write-Up

Prepare two security hardening procedures:

a. Fedora workstation hardening procedures

b. CentOS server hardening procedures

Do:

· When preparing your procedures, refer to Chapter 5 of the textbook for the purpose, content, and format of a procedure. You will be graded for this.

· Extract as many hardening steps as you can from each of the two Netlab Manuals:

· Netlab 2a Manual

· Netlab 2b Manual

Don’t:

· Don’t mix hardening steps of Fedora and CentOS.

· Don’t write a step that is not related to security of the Linux operating system.