Rithik Chatterjee - With Red Hat Ansible, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Security Auditing

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This book is intended for IT professionals in the domains of network and system administration, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevOps, CISO, and similar profiles.

Security is, more often than not, a neglected aspect in the IT industry. Organizations fail to realize the significance of a secure infrastructure environment and tend to invest only in the bare essentials. Traditional infrastructure sure gets the job done but in the current day and age, it is not enough to tackle evolving cyber threats. Numerous organizations have had to pay the price for their carefree attitude toward security administration.

This book intends to cover the basic, intermediate, and a few advanced concepts related to infrastructure security and how to enhance this security using certain Red Hat solutions. Traditional infrastructure sure gets the job done, but in these times, it is not enough to tackle evolving cyber threats. Readers can consider this as an informative guide on developing and implementing secure controls and configurations in various environments, including physical data centers, virtualization, and cloud environments.

Red Hat and IT Security has been written with the sole intention of providing information to readers that are usually not highlighted enough even with the rise in modern technologies. Most of the books available are domain specific like Red Hat / Linux, IT infrastructure, Cybersecurity, or DevOps. However, this book transcends the barriers and amalgamates all these fields to provide a distinct yet comprehensible insight into the overall world of Red Hat and IT Security, hence the name.

I would like to thank my uncles: Tapas and Subarna for being my secondary guardians, and to my close friends for being a part of my journey.

I extend my gratitude toward Nishant for dragging me into this domain, Prajakta maam for being a wonderful teacher, and Priyanshu for assisting me with the graphics.

This book would not have been possible without Divya who provided me with the opportunity, and Matthew and Himanshu who imparted their valuable insights into this project; thank you.

A special thanks to Shraddha, Pratiksha, and Kiran for your incredible support and being my sounding boards.