Welcome to TechNow! The Leader in Information Security Training & Computer Training.

The world of information security and computer training is ever changing.  The techniques and systems continue to evolve and we must stay current and diligent.  To do this, you can count on TechNow®…the leader in cybersecurity training and computer system training.

TechNow® has been training the leaders in the computer community for many years.  We provide training for students in a number of areas.  Our cybersecurity trainings include popular courses like D0D 8140, Security , CISM, CISSP, CEH,CCNA, and more.  With over 34 years of experience, we’re able to provide you with unmatched training and certification programs.

TechNow also provides a variety of other popular trainings for the computer professional including Cisco, EC-Council, CompTIA, Unix/Linux and more.

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Upcoming Events

  • IT-113: IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v4 – Foundations Course
    • 08/04/2025 – 08/08/2025
    • San Antonio
  • PM-325: Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Preparation
    • 08/04/2025 – 08/08/2025
    • San Antonio
  • N-305: CCNA Bootcamp
    • 08/11/2025 – 08/15/2025
    • San Antonio
  • PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Prep Course
    • 08/11/2025 – 08/13/2025
    • San Antonio
  • TN-555: Certified Ethical Hacker v13 (CEH)
    • 08/11/2025 – 08/15/2025
    • San Antonio
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    Course Overview:

    This course engages students by providing in-depth knowledge of the most prominent and powerful attack vectors and an environment to perform these attacks in numerous hands-on scenarios. This course goes far beyond simple scanning for low-hanging fruit, and shows penetration testers how to model the abilities of an advanced attacker to find significant flaws in a target environment and demonstrate the business risk associated with these flaws.

    Attendees to TN-919:Penetration Tester course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Date/Locations:

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    Course Duration: 5 days

    Course Objectives:

    • Advanced Hash Manipulation
    • Command Shell vs. Terminal Access
    • Enumerating Users
    • Exploitation Fundamentals
    • Injection Attacks
    • Legal Issues
    • Metasploit
    • Moving Files with Exploits
    • Obtaining and Passing Password Representations
    • Overview of Passwords
    • Penetration Testing Foundations
    • Penetration Testing Process
    • Penetration Testing via the Command Line
    • Profiling the Target
    • Reconnaissance
    • Scanning for Targets
    • Using a Proxy to Attack a Web Application
    • Vulnerability Scanning
    • Wireless Crypto and Client Attacks
    • Wireless Fundamentals

    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: Very knowledgeable. Kept class focused and on task

    Facilities comments: Good


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    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.

    Date/Locations:

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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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    User: Tosha

    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.

    Facilities comments: Very nice and clean hotel.


    User: buckey26

    Instructor comments: Dave was one of the best instructors I have ever had for a tech course. He broke down everything to the point where you can understand it internally.


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    Course Overview:  PA-232: Palo Alto Networks Panorama Manage Multiple Firewalls (EDU-221) Training Class is a two-day course.  Students attending this course will gain an in-depth knowledge of how to configure and manage their Palo Alto Networks Panorama Management Server.  Upon completion of this course, administrators will understand the Panorama server’s role in managing and securing their overall network.  Network professionals will learn to use Panorama’s aggregated reporting to provide them with a holistic view of a network of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.  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-232: Palo Alto Networks Panorama Manage Multiple Firewalls (EDU-221) Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

     

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 2 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 Panorama Management Server.

    Day 1

    • Module 0 – Introduction & Overview
    • Mod 1: Overview
      • Panorama Solution
      • Deployment Design
    • Mod 2: Initial Configuration
      • Interface Configuration
      • Setup Configurations
      • Device Deployment
      • Configuration Management
    • Mod 3: Templates
      • Templates Overview
      • Common Organization
      • Strategies
      • Configuring Templates
    • Mod 4: Device Groups
      • Device Groups
      • Objects
      • Policies
      • Device Group Commit

     

    Day 2

    • Mod 5: Administration
      • Admin Roles and Access
      • Control
      • Commit Procedure
    • Mod 6: Logging and
      • Reporting
      • Logging
      • Application Command
      • Center
      • App-Scope
      • Correlation Objects
      • Reports
    • Mod 7: Log Collectors
      • Plan a Log Collection
      • Deployment
      • Distributed Data Collection
      • Log Deployment
      • Configure Dedicated Log
      • Collector
      • Managed Collector Groups
    • Mod 8: Business Continuity
      • Panorama High Availability
      • Collector Group
      • Redundancy
      • Export Configuration
      • Disk Installation

     

    Prerequisites:

    This course is in no way associated with Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

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    Course Overview:

    AWS System Operations begins with a one day  introduction to AWS products, services, and common solutions. It provides you with fundamentals to become more proficient in identifying AWS services so that you can make informed decisions about IT solutions based on your business requirements and get started working on AWS.

    The AWS course continues to flow with teaching those in a Systems Administrator or Developer Operations (DevOps) role how to create automatable and repeatable deployments of networks and systems on the AWS platform. The course covers the specific AWS features and tools related to configuration and deployment, as well as common techniques used throughout the industry for configuring and deploying systems.

    To continue to learn more about AWS, TechNow has the following course:

    CL-425: AWS Security Operations and Architecture 

    Attendees to CL-415: AWS System Operations will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Duration: 5 Days

    Audience:
    This course is intended for:
    • System Administrators
    • Software Developers, especially those in a Developer Operations (DevOps) role

    DoD 8140: Not Mandated

    Course Prerequisites:
    We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
    • Background in either software development or systems administration
    • Some experience with maintaining operating systems at the command line (shell scripting in Linux environments, cmd or PowerShell in Windows)
    • Basic knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

    Course Objectives:
    This course is designed to teach you how to:
    • Understand basic data center design concepts.
    • Recognize terminology and concepts as they relate to the AWS platform and navigate the AWS Management Console.
    • Understand the foundational infrastructure services, including Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Auto Scaling, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
    • Understand the security measures AWS provides and key concepts of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
    • Understand AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).
    • Understand AWS management tools, including Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
    • Use standard AWS infrastructure features such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling from the command line
    • Use AWS CloudFormation and other automation technologies to produce stacks of AWS resources that can be deployed in an automated, repeatable fashion
    • Build functioning virtual private networks with Amazon VPC from the ground up using the AWS Management Console
    • Deploy Amazon EC2 instances using command line calls and troubleshoot the most common problems with instances
    • Monitor the health of Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS services
    • Manage user identity, AWS permissions, and security in the cloud
    • Manage resource consumption in an AWS account using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, tagging, and Trusted Advisor
    • Select and implement the best strategy for creating reusable Amazon EC2 instances
    • Configure a set of Amazon EC2 instances that launch behind a load balancer, with the system scaling up and down in response to demand
    • Edit and troubleshoot a basic AWS CloudFormation stack definition

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Course Outline:

    Day 1

    • Introduction and History of AWS
    • AWS Infrastructure: Compute, Storage, and Networking
    • AWS Security, Identity, and Access Management
    • AWS Databases
    • AWS Management Tools

    Day 2
    • System Operations on AWS Overview
    • Networking in the Cloud
    • Computing in the Cloud
    Day 3
    • Storage and Archiving in the Cloud
    • Monitoring in the Cloud
    • Managing Resource Consumption in the Cloud
    Day 4
    • Configuration Management in the Cloud
    • Creating Scalable Deployments in the Cloud
    • Creating Automated and Repeatable Deployments
    Day 5
    Full Day Lab
    • Select the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
    • Execute steps required to provision cloud resources for selected deployment
    • Identify and implement data protection, encryption, and capacity planning
    • Implement and manage security policies, access controls, and role
    • Implement Automation

     

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