Course Overview
This two-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in using VMware vRealize® Automation SaltStack® SecOps. SaltStack SecOps allows you to scan your system for compliance against security benchmarks, detect system vulnerabilities, and remediate your results. This course enables you to create the SaltStack SecOps custom compliance libraries and use SaltStack SecOps. In addition, this course provides you with the fundamentals of how to use VMware vRealize® Automation SaltStack® Config to install software and manage system configurations.
Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Security administrators who are responsible for using SaltStack SecOps to manage the security operations in their enterprise.
Prerequisites
You should have the following understanding or knowledge:
- Basic Linux administration skills
- Basic Windows administration skills
- Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere® environments
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Describe the architecture of SaltStack Config and SaltStack SecOps
- Integrate SaltStack Config with directory services.
- Configure roles and permissions for users and groups to manage and use SaltStack SecOps
- Use targeting to ensure that the jobs run on the correct minion systems
- Use remote execution modules to install the packages, transfer files, manage services, and manage users on minion systems
- Manage configuration control on the minion systems with states
- Use Jinja and YAML code to manage the minion systems with the state files
- Use SaltStack SecOps to update the compliance and vulnerability content libraries
- Use SaltStack SecOps to enforce compliance and remediation on the infrastructure with industry standard benchmarks
- Use SaltStack SecOps to provide automated vulnerability scanning and remediation on your infrastructure