Table of Contents
Professional utility of information security knowledge
Definition of information security
Example case – Wikileaks, Cablegate, and free reign over classified networks
Hands-on activity – Software Inspector, Steganography
Critical thinking exercise: identifying CIA area(s) affected by sample real-life hacking incidents
Chapter 2 — System Administration (Part 1)
What is system administration?
System administration and information security
Common system administration tasks
System administration utilities
Hands-on Activity – Linux system installation
Critical thinking exercise – Google executives sentenced to prison over video
Chapter 3 — System Administration (Part 2)
Moving around the filesystem – pwd, cd
Access control and user management
Software installation and updates
Command-line user administration
Example case – Northwest Florida State College
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