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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Computer Science |
| Máster Universitario en Ciberseguridade |
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| Operating Systems Hardening |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Operating Systems Hardening | Code | 614530007 | |||||||||||
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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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