A SysAdmin’s Essential Guide to Linux Workstation Security

A SysAdmin’s Essential Guide to Linux Workstation Security
How to work from anywhere and keep your data, identity, and sanity
By Konstantin Ryabitsev
Director of IT Infrastructure Security
at The Linux Foundation
This document is aimed at teams of systems administrators who use
Linux workstations to access and manage your project’s IT infrastructure.
If your systems administrators are remote workers, you may use this set
of guidelines to help ensure that their workstations pass core security
requirements in order to reduce the risk that they become attack vectors
against the rest of your IT infrastructure.
Even if your systems administrators are not remote workers, chances
are that they perform a lot of their work either from a portable laptop in
a work environment, or set up their home systems to access the work
infrastructure for after-hours/emergency support. In either case, you can
adapt this set of recommendations to suit your environment.