Question
Linux Security
Suppose that you were just hired by a medium size company.
You are replacing a previous system admin that really didn’t
understand what they were doing. Your supervisor would like you to
suggest ways of building and protecting their Linux server
environment based off of your interview (based off of what you
learned in this course).
They are proposing the following for a new business venture
and would like you to help. The criteria is below.
Proposed business requirements from your supervisor:
1. The Linux servers will be composed of web servers, user
servers, log servers and database servers(we didn’t talk about this
in the course, however, remember that no matter what type of server
that you are building, security still needs to be put in place.)
2. You will have teams/groups of employees of the following:
Sales, Software Development, Accounting, and Information Technology
3. For auditing purposes, the person that joins workstations
into the systems uses three different accounts: one account for the
IT department, and one account for each of the remaining
departments.
4. There are local administrators for each of the
departments, excluding the IT. These local administrators will use
the local administrator account on each department. These local
administrators will use a local account in each department for
purposes of installing applications, updating/patching software,
etc. This local account is not the root account, but a user account
that is member of the administrators group.
5. The Sales and Software Development departments have
websites. They must be able to communicate to each other, but not
be publicly. There is a main company website however.
6. The Software development team has to have a development
space on the internal network. )They use Linux servers as their
platform for development so they must have their own space, but
they expect the server to be secure.
How to submit:
You will need to submit a short narrative in the space
provided. Additionally, if you create any diagrams as part of the
assignment, these will also need to be attached.
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