The LPIC-2 Linux Engineer (202-450) course is designed for IT Professionals who are seeking the LPIC-2 certification. This series of courses from ITProTV covers the skills required of any intermediate to advanced systems administrator who is tasked with supporting Linux in a production environment. This course, sixth in the series, focuses on system security. Learn how to build a router and configure port forwarding, with iptables, and review how to use iptables as a firewall. Explore building a FTP server with vsftpd and Pure-FTPd. Find out how to restrict access to SSH and enable certificate authentication in SSH. Go over how to use Fail2ban to block brute force attacks and scan for open ports with Nmap. Plus, dive into building a VPN server with OpenVPN and configuring an OpenVPN client.