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TechNow has been involved in enterprise client server architectures since 1990. TechNow has delivered national and international implementations for Valero, Wholefoods, Quest, USAA, Golfsmith, AMD, Motorola, and many other fortune 1000 corporations,
TechNow's training program has followed the evolution of enterprise computing into virtualization and cloud computing. With a focus on security, TechNow can present the ramifications of many centralized strategies. All courses utilize enterprise instructors with experience and can discuss the detail of implementation and the integration into an existing infrastructure.
Course Overview:
This course provides security professionals with the skills and knowledge to perform vulnerability and compliance scanning of supported operating systems, devices, and applications. Students will construct custom scan policies for topology discovery, network vulnerability detection, credentialed patch audits, and compliance benchmarks, and discuss the underlying technologies utilized by the Nessus scanner.
This course provides students with the necessary information to prepare for the Tenable Certified Nessus Auditor (TCNA) exam.
Date/Locations:
Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Introduction to Nessus and Vulnerability Scanning
- Nessus Installation and Administration
- Basic Nessus Scan Operation
- Nessus Scan Configuration and Policy Creation
- Vulnerability Analysis and Reporting with Nessus
- Advanced Scan Configuration and Policy Creation
- Introduction to Compliance and Auditing
- Nessus Auditing Features
- Windows System Auditing
- Unix System Auditing
- Cisco IOS Auditing
- Nessus Database Auditing
- Nessus Content Auditing
- Auditing to Industry Guidelines
- Auditing to Federal Guidelines
Prerequisites:
Students should possess a basic understanding of TCP/IP networking, operating systems security, and common client/server applications.
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Certified Offensive AI Security Professional (COASP) validates the competencies required for practitioners who need to demonstrate offensive AI security skills, emulating adversaries, validating defenses, and leading red-team/blue-team exercises to keep AI resilient, reliable, and auditable
The Certified Offensive AI Security Professional (COASP) equips you to identify and neutralize AI-specific threats before attackers do. And Bridges security, engineering, and data science so controls exist across the full AI life cycle.
Participants will gain hands-on experience to perform end-to-end adversarial testing and deliver defensive validation evidence including the ability to simulate adversarial AI kill chains, Harden AI architectures by secure system prompts, context windows, tool integrations, RAG pipelines, and agent memory, Conducting AI security assessments aligned to MITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM/ML Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and DoD Test & Evaluation practices , This course covers how to build SOC-ready capabilities for AI-focused detection logic, incident playbooks, and forensic procedures , & how to execute prompt injection, adversarial prompting , Assess AI supply-chain risk , Implement defensive engineering controls and Produce assurance and compliance artifacts.
By the end of the course, learners will be well-prepared to take the Certified Offensive AI Security Professional (COASP) exam and demonstrate the ability to exploit vulnerabilities in LLMs and agents, and build defense that survive real world attacks, learners will master offensive techniques that break AI before the attackers do.
Course Outline:
01. Offensive AI and AI System Hacking Methodology
02. AI Reconnaissance and Attack Surface Mapping
03. AI Vulnerability Scanning and Fuzzing
04. Prompt Injection and LLM Application Attacks
05. Adversarial Machine Learning and Model Privacy Attacks
06. Data and Training Pipeline Attacks
07. Agentic AI and Model-to-Model Attacks
08. AI Infrastructure and Supply Chain Attacks
09. AI Security Testing, Evaluation, and Hardening
10. AI Incident Response and Forensics
Prerequisites:
TN-412: Artificial Intelligence Essentials (AI|E)
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Course Overview:
This is an advanced course that assumes the attendee is a qualified security professional with experience using security tools and understands the concepts behind penetration testing. Courses that build up the expertise that enables a student to succeed in this course is Security+, CEH, CISSP, and any of the GIAC certifications. This course is completely hands-on and utilizes the BackTrack tool suite from backtrack-linux.org. The course covers, in detail, various attacks and tools that are contained in the BackTrack tool suite.
Attendees to TN-335: Advanced Penetration Testing Using Open Source Tools will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Information Security and Open Source Software
- Operating System Tools
- Firewalls
- Scanners
- Vulnerability Scanners
- Network Sniffers
- Intrusion Detection Systems
- Analysis and Management Tools
- Encryption Tools
- Wireless Tools
- Forensic Tools
- More on Open Source Software
Prerequisites:
- Experience in IT Security
- Solid basic knowledge of networks and TCP/IP
- Experience in command line under Linux and Windows is required
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