Adding Ramparts to your Bastille: An Introduction to SELinux Hardening

DEF CON 24

Presented by: Jay Beale
Date: Friday August 05, 2016
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Location: Packet Hacking Village

Has your first action when acquiring a Red Hat system been to deactivate SELinux? In this fast-paced talk, you'll learn how to investigate and understand an SELinux-enabled system, and how to configure it. You'll learn how to build a policy for a new program and modify one for an existing. Finally, you'll learn about the boolean on-off switches built into the system that keep you from having to modify policies at all. If you want a speedy challenge, bring a CentOS 7 system with the packages listed on http://www.inguardians.com/selinux/ installed.

Jay Beale

Jay Beale (Twitter: @jaybeale) has created several security tools, including Bastille Linux/UNIX and the CIS Linux Scoring Tool, both of which have been used throughout industry and government. He has served as an invited speaker, program chair and trainer at many industry and government conferences, a columnist for Information Security Magazine, SecurityPortal and SecurityFocus, and a contributor to nine books, including those in his Open Source Security Series and the ‘Stealing the Network' series. Jay is a founder and the CTO of the information security consulting company InGuardians. He has taught Linux hardening classes since the year 2001, when he got his start at Black Hat.


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