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[LINUX] - SECURING LINUX SYSTEMS

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TOPIC A: IMPLEMENT CYBERSECURITY BEST PRACTICES A chroot jail is a technique of controlling what a process a user can access on a file system by changing the root directory of that process's environment: Encryption is a cryptographic technique that converts data from plaintext into coded, or ciphertext, form. Decryption is the companion technique that converts ciphertext back to plaintext: LUKS: Linux Unified Key Setup is a platform-independent FDE solution that is commonly that is commonly used to encrypt storage devices in a Linux environment. The cryptsetup command is used as a front-end to LUKS and dm-crypt SYNTAX The syntax of the cryptsetup command is cryptsetup [options] {actions} [action arguments]  Hashing is a process or function that transforms plaintext input into an indecipherable fixed-length output and ensures this process cannot be feasibly reversed. The resulting output of the hashing process is called a hash, hash value, or message digest. TOPIC B: IMPLEMENT IAM M...