LINUX AND CYBERSECURITY: YOUR LINUX SKILLS CAN HELP PROTECT THE WORLD’ S DATA April 10, 2019 by Oliver Bailey
While Linux has long been prevalent in cybersecurity on many routers and hardware firewalls, there are new groundbreaking opportunities that have emerged, and many more that are now in their infancy will be emerging over the next several years. A Fresh Perspective on Linux and Cybersecurity Faster processors, RISC-based architectures and Linux will all factor into groundbreaking techniques to secure data and personal information. With tiny Linux systems embedded into internet of things (IoT) servers that can disappear in the palm of your hand, there is dedicated hardware at both the client and server side. To protect these devices, the networks they attach to and the data they deliver, the development of new security practices and techniques is the only way to assure the safety and security of these device-based networks. Developing AI-Based Intrusion Detection and Countermeasures Often, it’s an end user, administrator or operations professional who finds an anomaly that leads to the discovery of an intrusion. But with Linux-based device networks, the intelligence will have to be developed into the network hardware to find those anomalies through protocol and data validation or machine artificial intelligence (AI). Securing a network from prying eyes and developing the intelligence to detect and counter those attacks will be necessary to prevent breaches that may be short but could expose large amounts of vital data to compromise our everyday way of life. As we gain the ability to hand intrusion detection off to a penetration monitor, the need for protocol development of encrypted messaging and the development of AI-based systems that can recognize and adapt to new intrusion techniques will become a much bigger field. Protecting the Internet of Things IoT is one of the fastest-growing market segments for people skilled in Linux and an area where cybersecurity programs are quickly gaining a very big momentum. It covers everything from home security systems to large-scale power and pipeline control systems, with thousands of IoT systems in between.
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