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Working with the TechNow lab for the PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack course has been nothing less than a techie's idea of fun. When students come in we are immediatly configuring the Cisco 3750 switches for access ports, VLANS, and trunks. We then cable the switch to the Palo Alto Networks Firewall. Each student gets their own Palo Alto Firewall Pod of hardware and software. What we find as fun is the VLAN environment, with an array of virtual machines hosted on an ESXi server that can really exercise the abilities of the Palo Alto Firewall. The DMZ VLAN hosts virtual machines that support enterprise services and also potentialy vulnerable web services. The Trust VLAN has Windows and Linux clients. The UnTrust VLAN has Web services and a VM of Kali. The hardware Firewall is additionally connected to a Management VLAN. All those VLANs are trunked into an ESXi server where the student also has a VM-Series Palo Alto Networks Firewall for High Availability.
After configuring all the trunking, VLANs, and network interfaces we learn about the firewall and configure it for the lab environment. Using Metasploitable and Kali/Metasploit nefarious penetration attempts are executed. Using packet captures, custom APP-ID's and custom signatures are generated. Custom logging and reporting are created to similate and enterprise and assist the desired Incident Response. It is always fun in a training environment to learn all about the controls available in a product, even though specific controls may not be used in the operational environment. In the end we have a good understanding of the Palo Alto Networks Firewall.
Course Overview:
The mark of excellence for a professional certification program is the value and recognition it bestows on the individual who achieves it. The technical skills & practices the CISA promotes and evaluates are the building blocks of success in the field. Possessing the CISA designation demonstrates proficiency and is the basis for measurement in the profession. With a growing demand for professionals possessing IS audit, control and security skills, CISA has become a preferred certification program by individuals and organizations around the world. CISA certification signifies commitment to serving an organization and the IS audit, control and security industry with distinction. This course will help the student prepare to obtain this credential.
Attendees to TN-822: Certified Information Systmes Auditor (CISA) Seminar will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
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05/05/2025 - 05/09/2025 08:00 -16:00 |
TN-822: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Seminar TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
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10/06/2025 - 10/10/2025 08:00 -16:00 |
TN-822: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Seminar TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- The IS Audit Process (10%)
- Provide IS audit services in accordance with IS audit standards, guidelines, and best practices to assist the organization in ensuring that its information technology and business systems are protected & controlled.
- IT Governance (15%)
- Provide assurance that the organization has the structure, policies, accountability, mechanisms and monitoring practices in place to achieve the requirements of corporate governance of IT.
- System and Infrastructure Life Cycle Management (16%)
- Provide assurance that the management practices for the development/acquisition, testing, implementation, maintenance and disposal of systems and infrastructure will meet the organization's objectives.
- IT Service Delivery and Support (14%)
- Provide assurance that the IT service management practices will ensure the delivery of the level of services required to meet the organization's objectives.
- Protection of Information Assets (31%)
- Provide assurance that the security architecture (policies, standards, procedures and controls) ensures the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets.
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (14%)
- Provide assurance that, in the event of a disruption, the business continuity and disaster recovery processes will ensure the timely resumption of IT services, while minimizing the business impact.
Prerequisites:
A minimum of five years of professional information systems auditing, control & security work experienced is required. Experience must have been gained within the 10-year period preceding the application date for certification, or within five years from the date of initially passing the examination.
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Course Overview:
Course one of a three course series to obtain a Server 2016 MCSA certification. This five-day course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing storage and compute by using Windows Server 2016, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and storage and compute options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2016.
The course leads directly to preparing for the(MCSA):Windows Server 2016 exam “70-740: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Windows Server 2016”. It also maps to Microsoft’s course 20740A, and is part of the Server 2016 MCSA certification.
Attendees to TN-5415: Installation, Storage, and Compute with Window Server 2016 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- Prepare and install Nano Server, a Server Core installation, and plan a server upgrade and migration strategy
- Describe the various storage options, including partition table formats, basic and dynamic disks, file systems, virtual hard disks, and drive hardware, and explain how to manage disks and volumes
- Describe enterprise storage solutions, and select the appropriate solution for a given situation
- Implement and manage Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
- Install and configure, and manage Windows and Hyper-V containers
- Describe the high availability and disaster recovery technologies in Windows Server 2016
- Plan, create, and manage a failover cluster
- Implement failover clustering for Hyper-V virtual machines
- Configure a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster, and plan for an NLB implementation
- Create and manage deployment images
- Manage, monitor, and maintain virtual machine installations
Prerequisites:
- A basic understanding of networking fundamentals
- An awareness and understanding of security best practices
- An understanding of basic AD DS concepts
- Basic knowledge of server hardware
- Experience supporting and configuring Windows client operating systems such as Windows 10
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Course Overview:
Learn to protect yourself and your company against hackers, by learning their tools and techniques, and then testing your network. This course is heavily based on Kali and primarily on Metasploit. In TN-515: Implementing Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Methodologies class you will learn the step by step process that hackers use to assess your enterprise network, probe it & hack into it, utilizing a mixed-platform target environment including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Cisco. This course is 90% hacking, but defenses for demonstrated hacks will be discussed. If you want to know the ins and outs of the hacks presented in this course, then this is the course for you.
Attendees to TN-515: Implementing Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Methodologies Class Attendees will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 Days
Course Objectives:
- Introduction to Pen Testing using the PTES model
- Metasploit Basics
- MSFconsole, MSFcli, Armitage, MSFpayload, MSFencode, NasmShell
- Intelligence Gathering
- Nmap, Databases in Metasploit, Port Scanning with Metasploit
- Quick Intro to Ruby
- Writing a simple Ruby script to create a custom scanner
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Importing Nessus Results
- Scanning with Nessus from Within Metasploit
- Exploitation
- Using the Metasploit Framework and console to exploit
- Meterpreter
- Compromising a Windows System
- Attacking MS SQL, xp_cmdshell
- Dumping Usernames and Passwords, extracting and dumping hashes
- Pass the Hash and Token Impersonation
- Pivoting
- Railgun
- Using Meterpreter Scripts: Migrating a process, Killing AV, Persistence
- Avoiding Detection
- Creating Stand-Alone Binaries with MSFpayload
- Encoding with MSFencode and Packers (go Green Bay:)
- Exploitation Using Client Side Attacks
- Introduction to Immunity Debugger
- Using Immunity Debugger to Decipher NOP Shellcode
- Metasploit Auxiliary Modules
- Social Engineer Toolkit (SET)
- Spear-Phishing, Web Attack
- Creating a Multipronged Attack
- Creating Your Own Module
- Adapt an existing Module
- Add some PowerShell and Run the Exploit
- Meterpreter Scripting
- Capture The Flag Exercise
Prerequisites:
- This is an advanced Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Course which requires basic Windows & UNIX competency
- Certification or 2 years of experience in these operating systems is highly recommended
- An understanding of TCP/IP
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