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TechNow has heard many students talk about virtualized/remote training that TechNow Does Not Do. While training our most recent offering of PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack a student told his story of how he endend up in our course. His story we have heard for other technologies like Cisco, VMware, BlueCoat and other products.
A large percentage of training is moving to the virtualized/remote lab environments. Students are asked to use some variant of remote access software and remote into the training company's lab environment. Our student in our Palo Alto Networks Firewall course informed us that he went to a very costly offering of that course from the vendor and was not able to perform any labs. There were either network connectivity issues, or issues with the remote access software, or other problems. The whole training experience was very frustrating and not productive.
We keep our labs open to students if they would like after hours, or before hours access. Repeatedly going through a lab engrains that knowledge for later recall. Touching hardware is so critical in understanding the problems that arise when a cable comes loose, or a cable gets plugged in the wrong port. There are other scenarios such as just pulling the power cable, or turning off a power strip, or accidently overwriting a configuration. These disaster scenarious requires hands-on physical access to hardware. Preventing and recovering from disasters is what it's all about, and that requires hands-on, instructor led, real hardware.
Course Overview: PA-243: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Debug and Troubleshoot is a three-day course on how to troubleshoot the full line of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. Students will receive hands-on experience troubleshooting the security, networking, threat prevention, logging, and reporting features of the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® operating system. Upon completion of this class, students will have an in-depth knowledge of how to troubleshoot visibility and control over applications, users, and content. This is not a virtualized theoretical course. This is hands-on, real world instruction, directly relevant to the DoD and Commercial implementations of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.
Each student is issued a physical Palo Alto firewall and a Cisco layer 3 switch at their desk. Real hardware per student for real experience and real skill development. TechNow provides a very comprehensive client infrastructure that includes Windows, Linux, and multiple packet sniffer agents.
The instructor for this course has been a lead in Unix kernel development to implement firewall and intrusion detection technologies. Additionally, the instructor has taught several security appliance products and carries several SANS, ISC2, ISACA, Cisco, Unix, and Windows certifications.
Attendees to the PA-243: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Debug and Troubleshoot (EDU-311) Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
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Duration: 3 days
Course Objectives: Students attending this foundational-level training course will gain an in-depth knowledge of how to configure and manage their Palo Alto Networks firewall, including hands-on experience in configuring the security, networking, threat prevention, logging, and reporting features of the Palo Alto Networks Operating System (PAN-OS).
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This course is in no way associated with Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
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TechNow offers the full gamut of programming languages from ANSI C and C++ to the various Microsoft .Net languages (Visual Basic, C# and C++). If you are completely new to programming, TechNow offers courses that demonstrate the fundamentals to get you started.
If you prefer Unix/Linux, we offer Shell Programming, as well as, Perl and Python. We also offer courses in the web development languages, such as, Java Servlets, JSP, and ASP .Net.
The following is a list of our Programming training courses:
- C-215: Introduction to C Programming
- C-225: C++ Object Oriented Programming
- MS-2124: Programming with C#
- P-245: Programming with PERL
- P-315: Intermediate PERL Programming
- P-325: Python Programming
- P-415: Advanced PERL Programming
- PL-115: Fundamentals of Computer Programming
- TN-215: Shell Programming
- TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming
- TN-345: Python for Penetration Testers
- TN-430: Elasticsearch Engineer (ELK)
- TN-965 Windows Security Automation with Powershell
Course Overview:
Intrusion Analyst is a hands-on course that covers intrusion detection in-depth. This includes concepts such as the use of Snort, network traffic analysis, and IDS signatures.
A skills focus enables the student to better absorb the subject matter and perform successfully on the job. This is not death by power point. The course is aligned with information assurance operators and executing hands-on labs. Lecture and labs walk the student through the knowledge required to truly understand the mechanics of packet and intrusion analysis.
Attendees to TN-979: Intrusion Analyst will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
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Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Advanced Snort Concepts
- Analyst Toolkit
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Examining Packet Crafting
- Examining Packet Header Fields
- Fragmentation
- ICMP Theory
- IDS Interoperability
- IDS Patterns
- IDS/IPS Management & Architecture Issues
- Indications, Warnings & Traffic Correlation
- IPv6
- Microsoft Protocols
- Network Traffic Analysis
- NIDS Evasion, Instertion & Checksums
- Snort Fundamentals & Configuration
- Snort GUIs & Sensor Management
- Snort Performance, Active Response & Tagging
- Snort Rules
- Stimulus Response
- TCPdump Fundamentals
- TCP/IP Fundamentals
- Wireshark Fundamentals
- Writing TCPdump Filters
Course Prerequisites:
- GSEC or equivalent experience
- UNIX, Windows, Networking, and Security Experience
- This is a hands-on skill course requiring comfort with command line interaction and network communications
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Instructor comments: Dave was an excellent instructor. He is very informative and knowledgeable in the course and the material. I have enjoyed the class and I would take another course with him as the instructor.
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