Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Computer Science |
Máster Universitario en Ciberseguridade |
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Identifying Data | 2024/25 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Operating Systems Hardening | Code | 614530108 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 5 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
Introduction to H.O.S. | The concept of hardening an operating system. Vulnerabilities. Hardening during installation, post installation and maintenance. |
Boot procedure hardening | Physycal system security. Hardening the Firmware (BIOS, UEFI). Hardening the Boot Loader |
Hardening user acounts | Identifying and eliminating non used accounts. Limiting user privileges. Group Policies. Hardening authentification. Forcing Password policies |
Hardening File Systems | File system permissions and protections. Quotas. Locking system directories. Encryption. Limiting access to devices |
Hardening applications | Identifying and eliminating non used applications. Identifying connections and eliminating apps/packeges providing unwanted connections. Limiting applications provileges. Excuting in secure enviroments: container based execution, SELinux... |
Hardening network | Identify and eliminate unwanted connections/services. Packet filetring |
Monitoring and maintenance | System monitoring. Logs. Securing logs. Identifying possible threats. Security patches. |
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