Duration
5 days
Overview
This course is designed to help you implement a security policy in an AIX environment. AIX 6.1 features are covered.
Audience
This advanced course is intended for persons who:
- Want to learn what the security mechanisms are in an AIX system
- Will plan, implement, or distribute a security policy in AIX
- The audience for this training includes:
- AIX technical support individuals
- System administrators
- System architects
Prerequisites
You should have basic AIX administration experience. The AIX prerequisite may be met by attending one of the two following classes or having equivalent AIX skills:
- AIX Basics (AN10G)
- Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals (AN14G)
To use PowerSC, a knowledge of VIO LPARs is required. This prerequisite could be met by attending the following class or having equivalent skills.
- Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization (AN30G)
Objectives
- Describe security threats to a computer system
- List the AIX commands and components that can meet both the base system and network security threats, including how to configure IPSEC and LDAP
- Configure, distribute, and monitor a security policy and check sox-cobit compliance using AIX Security Expert and LDAP with Active Directory
- Configure the role-based access control (RBAC) feature (AIX 6.1)
- Implement encrypted file systems (AIX 6.1)
- Implement the Trusted Execution feature (AIX 6.1)
- Implement trusted services using the PowerSC IBM product (AIX 6.1 TL6)
- Implement the AIX install time options of Secure by Default and Trusted AIX (AIX 6.1)
Day 1
- Welcome
- Exercise 2 - AIX base system security
- Exercise 3 - AIX network security, Part 1: TCP/IP security environment
Day 2
- Exercise 4 - Implementing and distributing a security policy with AIXPert
Day 3
- Exercise 5 - Implementing role-based access control Exercise 6 - Implementing encrypted file systems Exercise 7 - Implementing Trusted Execution
Day 4
- Exercise 8 - Introducing PowerSC
- Exercise 9 - Centralizing security with LDAP and Kerberos, Part 1: LDAP on AIX
Day 5
- Topic 2: Kerberos and Active Directory
- Exercise 9 - Centralizing security with LDAP and Kerberos, Part 2: LDAP with Active Directory
- Exercise 10 - AIX install time security options
- Lab time
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.