Linux System for Cybersecurity
This course introduced students to Linux concepts and strategies. The course primarily focused on basic operating procedures of Linux. The main focus of this course was on the graphical interface and command-line interface. This course provided the essentials for understanding basic installation and configuration, file systems management, shell scripts, and user authentication in Linux systems. The objectives of this course were to:
- introduce basic concepts about all of the various Linux operations, and this included Kali Linux as well
- learn to perform basic but essential administrative actions
- this included network configuration, process administration, and software management
- execute security tasks,
- things such as foot-printing and tools in relation to intrusion detection
Course Material
In this course I learned how to execute crucial administrative functions in the Linux system, write scripts to automatically perform tasks in, and performed security tasks to help ensure the security of my Linux system.
Examples
Here is a list of some assignments I completed during this course:
This assignment is where I learned to install the Linux system on to my computer and practiced commands.
This assignment is where I started working on group and user management.
This assignment is where I learned about password cracking and started working with that.