Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud (RH415)

The "Red Hat Security: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud" (RH415) course is designed for security and system administration personnel who manage the secure operation of computer systems running...

- Manage compliance with OpenSCAP.
- Enable SELinux on a server from a disabled state, perform basic analysis of the system policy, and mitigate risk with advanced SELinux techniques.
- Proactively identify and resolve issues with Red Hat Insights.
- Monitor activity and changes on a server with Linux Audit and AIDE.
- Protect data from compromise with USBGuard and storage encryption.
- Manage authentication controls with PAM.
- Manually apply provided Ansible Playbooks to automate mitigation of security and compliance issues.
- Scale OpenSCAP and Red Hat Insights management with Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills that are needed to reduce security risk and to implement, manage, and remediate compliance and security issues in an efficient way at scale. The tools and techniques can help to ensure that systems are configured and deployed in a way that meets security and compliance needs, that they continue to meet those requirements, and that as those requirements are revised, all existing systems can be audited, and remediations a...

- System Administrator - responsible for supporting the company’s physical and virtual infrastructure, systems, and servers
- IT Security Practitioner / Compliance & Auditor - responsible for ensuring the technology environment is protected from attacks and is in compliance with security/privacy rules and regulations.
- Automation Architect - Engineer or architect responsible for the company’s automation development and optimizing cloud tools and infrastructure to achieve automation goals.

Managing Security and Risk


Define and implement strategies to manage security on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

Automating Configuration and Remediation with Ansible


Remediate configuration and security issues automatically with Ansible Playbooks.

Protecting Data with LUKS and NBDE


Encrypt data on storage devices with LUKS, and use NBDE to manage automatic decryption when servers are booted.

Restricting USB Device Access


Protect systems from rogue USB device access with USBGuard...