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Red Hat and IT Security

With Red Hat Ansible, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Security Auditing

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  • Explains hybrid cloud infrastructure and automating the security process with Red Hat cloud suite

  • Covers Red Hat security auditing best practices

  • Explains Red Hat security tools with real-life examples and implementation

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction to IT Security

    • Rithik Chatterjee
    Pages 1-21
  3. Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

    • Rithik Chatterjee
    Pages 23-64
  4. Security in DevOps and Automation

    • Rithik Chatterjee
    Pages 65-104
  5. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure

    • Rithik Chatterjee
    Pages 105-148
  6. Red Hat Smart Management and Red Hat Insights

    • Rithik Chatterjee
    Pages 149-175
  7. Red Hat Security Auditing

    • Rithik Chatterjee
    Pages 177-197
  8. Case Studies

    • Rithik Chatterjee
    Pages 199-221
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 223-233

About this book

Use Red Hat’s security tools to establish a set of security strategies that work together to help protect your digital data. You will begin with the basic concepts of IT security and DevOps with topics such as CIA triage, security standards, network and system security controls and configuration, hybrid cloud infrastructure security, and the CI/CD process. Next, you will integrate and automate security into the DevOps cycle, infrastructure, and security as code. You will also learn how to automate with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and about hybrid cloud infrastructure.

The later chapters will cover hyper-converged infrastructure and its security, Red Hat Smart Management, predictive analytics with Red Hat Insights, and Red Hat security auditing to ensure best security practices. Lastly, you will see the different types of case studies with real-world examples.

Red Hat and IT Security will help you get a better understanding of IT security concepts from a network and system administration perspective. It will help you to understand how the IT infrastructure landscape can change by implementing specific security best practices and integrating Red Hat products and solutions to counter against modern cybersecurity threats.

What You Will Learn

●        Understand IT infrastructure security and its best practices

●        Implement hybrid cloud infrastructure

●        Realign DevOps process into DevSecOps, emphasizing security

●        Implement automation in IT infrastructure services using Red Hat Ansible

●        Explore Red Hat Smart Management, predictive analytics, and auditing

Who This Book Is For

IT professionals handling network/system administration or the IT infrastructure of an organization. DevOps professionals and cybersecurity analysts would find the book useful.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Pune, India

    Rithik Chatterjee

About the author

Rithik Chatterjee graduated as an electronics and telecommunications engineer. As he was interested in the networking domain, he completed his course in IT infrastructure management. Later on, he was accredited as a Red Hat Certified System Administrator and Red Hat Certified Engineer. Working for a startup, his responsibilities included network/system administration, IT security, information security, and DevOps. Having gained a better understanding of the IT landscape, his interest and goals leaned towards cybersecurity leading to his training and certification as an EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker.

His hobbies include landscape and wildlife photography, blogging, reading, and watching anime. To pursue his hobby of writing he developed his own blogging website (Inspirio Scripts), also encouraging budding authors like him to pen their thoughts.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Red Hat and IT Security

  • Book Subtitle: With Red Hat Ansible, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Security Auditing

  • Authors: Rithik Chatterjee

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6434-8

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: Rithik Chatterjee 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6433-1Published: 21 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6434-8Published: 20 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 233

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Systems and Data Security, Open Source

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 34.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 44.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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