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SELinux System Administration, Third Edition

You're reading from SELinux System Administration, Third Edition Implement mandatory access control to secure applications, users, and information flows on Linux

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201477

Length 458 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Sven Vermeulen

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Using SELinux

2. Chapter 1: Fundamental SELinux Concepts FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding SELinux Decisions and Logging

4. Chapter 3: Managing User Logins

5. Chapter 4: Using File Contexts and Process Domains

6. Chapter 5: Controlling Network Communications

7. Chapter 6: Configuring SELinux through Infrastructure-as-Code Orchestration

8. Section 2: SELinux-Aware Platforms

9. Chapter 7: Configuring Application-Specific SELinux Controls

10. Chapter 8: SEPostgreSQL – Extending PostgreSQL with SELinux

11. Chapter 9: Secure Virtualization

12. Chapter 10: Using Xen Security Modules with FLASK

13. Chapter 11: Enhancing the Security of Containerized Workloads

14. Section 3: Policy Management

15. Chapter 12: Tuning SELinux Policies

16. Chapter 13: Analyzing Policy Behavior

17. Chapter 14: Dealing with New Applications

18. Chapter 15: Using the Reference Policy

19. Chapter 16: Developing Policies with SELinux CIL

20. Assessments

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Questions

What is the difference between an unconfined domain and a permissive domain?
How can we run applications in a very restricted domain?
How can we easily switch the domain in which a service will run?
Why do policies generated by sepolicy seemingly run without problems?

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Authors (1)

Sven Vermeulen

Sven Vermeulen

Sven Vermeulen (sjvermeu on Twitter) is a long-term contributor to various free software projects and the author of several online guides and resources, including the Gentoo Handbook. He got his first taste of free software in 1997 and never looked back. Within SELinux, Sven contributed several policies to the Reference Policy project, and actively participated in policy development and user space development projects. In his daily job, Sven is an enterprise architect in a European financial institution as well as a self-employed solution engineer and consultant. Prior to this, he graduated with an MSE in computer engineering from Ghent University and an MSc in ICT enterprise architecture from IC Institute.

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