How to Set Up a Certificate Authority with OpenSSL on RHEL 7 A Private Certificate Authority (CA) is essential infrastructure for any organization that needs to issue and manage TLS certificates for internal services, VPNs, mutual TLS authentication, or code signing — without relying on commercial CAs or exposing internal hostnames to the public internet. […]
How to Configure Mandatory Access Control with SELinux Policies on RHEL 7 SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is a mandatory access control (MAC) framework built into the Linux kernel and deeply integrated into RHEL 7. Unlike discretionary access control (DAC), which is based on user and group ownership, SELinux enforces fine-grained access rules based on security contexts […]
How to Install HashiCorp Vault for Secrets Management on RHEL 7 HashiCorp Vault is an open-source tool for securely storing and tightly controlling access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets throughout the software lifecycle. Unlike storing secrets in configuration files or environment variables, Vault provides a central, audited, and access-controlled secrets store […]
How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 7 Suricata is a high-performance, open-source network threat detection engine maintained by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). It can operate as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), passively monitoring traffic and alerting on suspicious patterns, or as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), actively blocking malicious connections using the […]
How to Set Up Port Knocking for SSH on RHEL 7 Port knocking is a stealthy technique for controlling access to network services by requiring a client to send connection attempts to a predefined sequence of closed ports before a firewall rule opens the target port. When applied to SSH, it effectively hides port 22 […]
How to Harden the Linux Kernel with sysctl on RHEL 7 The Linux kernel exposes hundreds of tunable parameters through the /proc/sys/ virtual filesystem, and the sysctl utility provides a clean interface for reading and setting those values at runtime and persistently across reboots. Many of these parameters have direct security implications: they control whether […]
How to Configure PAM on RHEL 7 Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) is the authentication framework that underlies almost every login mechanism on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. When a user runs su, logs in over SSH, unlocks a screensaver, or authenticates to any PAM-aware application, the PAM stack determines whether that authentication succeeds, what restrictions […]
How to Install and Configure AIDE on RHEL 7 AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that works by taking a cryptographic snapshot of your filesystem at a known-good point in time and then comparing the current state of the filesystem against that baseline to identify any files that have […]
How to Set Up Automatic SSH Login Banners on RHEL 7 Displaying a clear, legally appropriate banner when users connect to a Linux server over SSH is both a security best practice and a compliance requirement in many regulated environments such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and government frameworks. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, there are […]
How to Use OpenSSL to Generate, Sign and Manage SSL Certificates on RHEL 7 OpenSSL is the standard open-source toolkit for implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols, and it is used on almost every Linux server in production. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, OpenSSL is installed by default […]
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