CISCO Cybersecurity Essentials: 7.1.1.6 Hardening a Linux System | Linux system exercise demonstration (English / Português)

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How to solve the Lab exercice 7.1.1.6 Hardening a Linux System

Objectives: Demonstrate the use of a security auditing tool to harden a Linux system.

Background / Scenario: Auditing a system for potential misconfigurations or unprotected services is an important aspect of system hardening. Lynis is an open source security auditing tool with an automated set of scripts developed to test a Linux system.