TN-913: Cloud Security Fundamentals

 

Course Overview:

TechNow Cloud Security Fundamentals addresses the loss of hands-on control of system, application, and data security in the Cloud computing environment.  Security teams wrestle with the impact and liability of Cloud computing on an organization.  This course enables the security team to assist in contract language and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) when utilizing Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

Compliance and auditing are introduced with strategies for control verification and audit analysis in the CSP environment.  Software as a Service (SaaS) to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and everything in between require a compliance strategy.  Students will go in-depth into the architecture and infrastructure fundamentals for private, public, and hybrid clouds.   Topics covered include: patch and configuration management, virtualization security, application security, and change management. Policy, risk assessment, and governance within cloud environments will be covered with recommendations for both internal policies and contract provisions to consider.

TechNow has worked worldwide enterprise infrastructures for over 20 years and has developed demos and labs to exemplify the techniques required to effectively manage security in the cloud environment.

Attendees to TN-913: Cloud Security Fundamentals will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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Course Duration: 3 days

Course Objectives:

  • Cloud computing introduction
  • Security challenges in the cloud
  • Infrastructure security in the cloud
  • Policy, risk, and governance for cloud computing
  • Compliance and legal considerations
  • Audit and assessment for the cloud
  • Data security in the cloud
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) in the cloud
  • Intrusion detection and incident response

Course Prerequisites:

  • GSEC, CISSP, CASP or equivalent experience in managing enterprise infrastructures
  • Managing or administering at least one of UNIX, Windows, Databases, networking, or security

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TN-905: Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis

 

Course Overview:

TechNow has worked worldwide enterprise infrastructures for over 30 years and has developed demos and labs to exemplify the techniques required to demonstrate technologies that effectively support CTI.  This course integrates well with our courses TN-575: Open Source Network Security Monitoring and TN-865: Wireshark Network Traffic and Security Analysis .

TechNow develops Cyber Ranges and makes them available for conferences in support of annual meetings for Cyber Threat Response Teams.  Developing scenarios and reacting to them appropriately is a big part of the value in understanding the contexts required to comprehend valuable CTI.   As with many advanced TechNow security courses, there is a large hands-on ratio.  This course helps Cyber Protection Teams (CPT), Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), and Mission Defense Teams (MDT) to collect, analyze and apply targeted cyber intelligence to defensive operations in order to proactively act on and tune response to attacks by cyber adversaries.  CPT, DCO, and MDT can take preemptive action by utilizing CTI, understanding CTI tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) needed to generate and consume timely and relevant intelligence to improve resilience and prevention.

This course focuses on the collection, classification, and exploitation of knowledge about adversaries and their TTPs. .  MDT puts us close the mission and helps define the internal context to be analyzed against the CTI.  TechNow pushes the student to truly understand how to think about and use CTI to make a difference.

Attendees to TN-905: Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

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Course Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • Learn to comprehend and develop complex scenarios
  • Identify and create intelligence requirements through practices such as threat modeling
  • Utilize threat modeling to drive intelligence handling and practices 
  • Breakdown tactical, operational, and strategic-level threat intelligence
  • Generate threat intelligence to detect, respond to, and defeat focused and targeted threats
  • How to collect adversary information creating better value CTI
  • How to filter and qualify external sources, mitigating low integrity intelligence
  • Create Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) in formats such as YARA, OpenIOC, and STIX
  • Move security maturity past IOCs into understanding and countering the behavioral tradecraft of threats
  • Breaking down threats mapped against their tradecraft to tweak IOCs
  • Establish structured analytical techniques to be successful in any security role
  • Learn and apply structured principles in support of CTI and how to communicate that to any security role.

Course Prerequisites:

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    Windows Security Automation and Threat Hunting with PowerShell Seminar

    Location: 400 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53203, USA

    Date: October 10, 2018 8:00am – 4:00pm

    Duration: 8 hours

    Audience: Cyber Security professionals and Windows administrators

    Attendees Environment: Laptops not required, but suggested to have better hands-on absorption of subject matter.

    Description:
    PowerShell is both a command-line shell and scripting language. Fight fires quickly using existing or custom PowerShell commands or scripts at the shell. PowerShell is made for Security Operations (SecOps) automation on Windows. This seminar does not require prior programming skills. The seminar focuses on PowerShell programming, giving a beginner skills to be productive in windows scripting to automate tasks and also remediate problems.

    Cyber Security is the objective of this seminar, and the PowerShell examples will demonstrate PowerShell capabilities that help lock down a Windows system and also report security status.

    Objectives:

    PowerShell Overview

    • Getting started running commands
    • Security cmdlets
    • Using and updating the built-in help
    • Execution policies
    • Fun tricks with the ISE graphical editor
    • Piping .NET and COM objects, not text
    • Using properties and methods of objects
    • Helping Linux admins feel more at home
    • Aliases, cmdlets, functions, modules, etc.

    PowerShell Utilities and Tips

    • Customizing your profile script
    • PowerShell remote command execution
    • Security setting across the network
    • File copy via PowerShell remoting
    • Capturing the output of commands
    • Parsing text files and logs with regex patterns
    • Parsing Security Logs
    • Searching remote event logs
    • Mounting the registry as a drive
    • Security settings in the Registry
    • Exporting data to CSV, HTML and JSON files
    • Running scripts as scheduled jobs
    • Continued Security Compliance
    • Pushing out scripts through Group Policy
    • Importing modules and dot-sourcing functions
    • http://www.PowerShellGallery.com

    PowerShell Scripting

    • PowerShell Scripting to implement Security Practices
    • Writing your own functions to automate security status and settings
    • Passing arguments into your scripts
    • Function parameters and returning output
    • Flow control: if-then, foreach, that make security decisions
    • How to pipe data in/out of your scripts for security compliance and reporting

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    TN-515: Implementing Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Methodologies

      

    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:

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    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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    TN-575: Open Source Network Security Monitoring

     

    Course Overview:

    TN-575: Open Source Network Security Monitoring teaches students how to deploy, build, and run an NSM operation using open source software and vendor-neutral tools. No network is bullet proof and when attackers access your network, this course will show you how to build a security net to detect, contain, and control the attacker. Sensitive data can be monitored and deep packet and deep attachment analysis can be achieved. As organizations stand up a Security Operations Center (SOC) the enterprise NSM is the key ingredient to that SOC. This course not only teaches how to implement an NSM technologically, but how to effectively monitor an enterprise operationally. You will learn how to architect an NSM solution: where to deploy your NSM platforms and how to size them, stand-alone or distributed, and integration into packet analysis, interpret evidence, and integrate threat intelligence from external sources to identify sophisticated attackers. A properly implemented NSM is integral to incident response and provides the responders timely information to react to the incident. TN-575: Open Source Network Security Monitoring is a lab intensive environment with a cyber range that gives each student in-depth knowledge and practical experience monitoring live systems to include: Cisco, Windows, Linux, IoT, and Firewalls.

    Attendees to TN-575: Open Source Network Security Monitoring class will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    This Course is taught utilizing Security Onion or RockNSM as specified by the customer.

    Dates/Locations:

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    Duration: 5 Days

    Course Objective:

    The focus of this course is to present a suite of Open Source security products integrated into a highly functional and scalable Network Security Monitoring solution.

    Prerequisites:

    Students should have a basic understanding of networks, TCP/IP and standard protocols such as DNS, HTTP, etc. Some Linux knowledge/experience is recommended, but not required

    Course Outline:

    • Network Security Monitoring (NSM) Methodology
    • High Bandwidth Packet Capture Challenges
    • Installation of Security Onion
      • Use Cases (analysis, lab, stand-alone, distributed)
      • Resource Requirements
    • Configuration
      • Setup Phase I – Network Configuration
      • Setup Phase 2 – Service Configuration
      • Evaluation Mode vs. Configuration Mode
      • Verifying Services
    • Security Onion Architecture
      • Configuration Files and Folders
      • Network Interfaces
      • Docker Environment
      • Security Onion Containers
    • Overview of Security Onion Analyst Tools
      • Kibana
      • CapME
      • CyberChef
      • Squert
      • Sguil
      • NetworkMiner
    • Quick Review of Wireshark and Packet Analysis
      • Display and Capture Filters
      • Analyze and Statistics Menu Options
      • Analysis for Signatures
    • Analyzing Alerts
      • Replaying Traffic
      • 3 Primary Interfaces:
        • Squert
        • Sguil
        • Kibana
      • Pivoting Between Interfaces
      • Pivoting to Full Packet Capture
    • Snort and Surricata
      • Rule Syntax and Construction
      • Implementing Custom Rules
      • Implementing Whitelists and Blacklists
    • Hunting
      • Using Kibana to Slice and Dice Logs
      • Hunting Workflow with Kibana
    • Bro
      • Introduction and Overview
        • Architecture, Commands
      • Understanding and Examining Bro Logs
        • Using AWK, sort, uniq, and bro-cut
      • Working with traces/PCAPs
      • Bro Scripts Overview
        • Loading and Using Scripts
      • Bro Frameworks Overview
        • Bro File Analysis Framework FAF
      • Using Bro scripts to carve out more than files
    • RockNSM ( * If Applicable)
      •  Kafka
        • Installation and Configuration
        • Kafka Messaging
        • Brokers
        • Integration with Bro and FSF
      • File Scanning Framework FSF
        • Custom YARA Signatures
        • JSON Trees
        • Sub-Object Recursion
        • Bro and Suricata Integration
    • Elastic Stack
      • Adding new data sources in Logstash
      • Enriching data with Logstash
      • Automating with Elastalert
      • Building new Kibana dashboards
    • Production Deployment
      • Advanced Setup
      • Master vs Sensor
      • Node Types – Master, Forward, Heavy, Storage
      • Command Line Setup with sosetup.conf
      • Architectural Recommendations
      • Sensor Placement
      • Hardening
      • Administration
      • Maintenance
    • Tuning
      • Using PulledPork to Disable Rules
      • BPF’s to Filter Traffic
      • Spinning up Additional Snort / Suricata / Bro Workers to Handle Higher Traffic Loads

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