Amazon Web Services: Install an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) on an EC2 Instance
Intall fail2ban on first instance
SSH into first instance as cloud_user
Linux Security: Managing File Attributes and Permissions
Reset Permissions on /opt/myapp directory
To be able to allow access
Google Cloud: Handling Encryption Keys with Cloud KMS
In this tutorial you will learn the process of encrypting and decrypting
Amazon Web Services: Blocking Web Traffic with WAF
For this tutorial I will be configuring WAF to block web traffic
Amazon Web Services: Performing a Source Code Security Scan Using git-secrets in AWS
EC2 environment. In this tutorial you will install Git, clone a repository,
Linux Security: Create a Custom Scan Policy with OpenSCAP
Create a Customer OpenSCAP Policy
1. Use VNC to connect to the
Linux Security: Working with the Audit Log
Create audit rules to watch `/etc/passwd` for reads, `/etc/sudoers/` for
Linux Security: Performing a Compliance Scan and Active Remediation Using OSCAP
Install the Necessary Packages
1. Become root
* sudo su
2. Install the
Linux Security: Run an OpenSCAP Compliance Scan on a Host
You will learn how to install OpenSCAP and how to scan a
Linux Security: Working with OpenSSL and httpd
Install ‘mod_ssl’ on the host ‘webserver’
sudo yum install mod_ssl
Linux Security: Disk Encryption with eCryptfs
Install eCryptfs on the Provided System
sudo apt-get install ecryptfs-utils
Configure ‘/opt/
Google Cloud Security: Creating Firewall Rules on a VPC Network
I will configure two different firewall rules: (1) to allow SSH access
