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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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    • 10/06/2025 – 10/10/2025
    • San Antonio
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    TN-949: Certified Firewall Analyst Course

    Course Overview:

    This is a hands-on course that covers many of the concepts of securing the perimeter of an organization. This includes concepts such as intrusion detection, packet filtering, and central logging.

    A skills focus enables the student to better absorb the subject matter and perform better 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 Firewalls.

    This course is an excellent precursor to PA-215 Palo Alto Firewall Essentials FastTrack.

    Attendees to TN-949: Certified Firewall Analyst Prep will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Date/Locations:

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    Duration: 5 days

    Course Objectives:

    • Analyzing Network and Wireless Design
    • Creating and Auditing a Rulebase
    • Firewall Assessment and Penetration Testing
    • Host-Based Detection and DLP
    • Incident Detection and Analysis
    • IOS and Router Security
    • IPv6 and ICMPv6
    • Log Collection and Analysis
    • NAT and Proxies
    • Netfilter IPtables
    • Network Access Control
    • Network-Based Intrusion Detection
    • Packet Filters and Inspection
    • Packet Fragmentation
    • Perimeter Concepts and IP Fundamentals
    • Securing Hosts and Services
    • TCP/IP Protocols
    • VPN Design and Auditing
    • VPN Implementation

    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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      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-415: Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI)

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      Course Overview:

      The Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) course delivers the security discipline of digital forensics from a vendor-neutral perspective. CHFI is a comprehensive course covering major forensic investigation scenarios and enabling students to acquire necessary hands-on experience with various forensic investigation techniques and standard forensic tools necessary to successfully carry out a computer forensic investigation leading to the prosecution of perpetrators.

      The CHFI certification gives participants the necessary skills to perform an effective digital forensics investigation. CHRI presents a methodological approach to computer forensics including searching and seizing, chain-of-custody, acquisition, preservation, analysis and reporting of digital evidence

      What’s Included:

      • 5 days of instructor-led in classroom training
      • Detailed Labs for hands-on learning experience; approximately 50% of training is dedicated to labs
      • Hundreds of investigation tools including EnCase, Access Data FTL, & ProDiscover
      • Huge cache of evidence files for analysis including RAW, .dd images, video & audio files, MS Office files, systems files, etc.
      • CHFI Courseware
      • Exam Voucher
      • CHFI onsite exam scheduling

      Course Objectives:

      • Establish threat intelligence and key learning points to support pro-active profiling and scenario modeling
      • Perform anti-forensic methods detection
      • Perform post-intrusion analysis of electronic and digital media to determine the who, where, what, when, and how the intrusion occurred
      • Extract and analyze of logs from various devices like proxy, firewall, IPS, IDS, Desktop, laptop, servers, SIM tool, router firewall, switches AD server, DHCP logs, Access Control Logs & conclude as part of investigation process
      • Identify & check the possible source/ incident origin
      • Recover deleted files and partitions in Windows, MAC OS X, and Linux
      • Conduct reverse engineering for known and suspected malware files
      • Collect data using forensic technology methods in accordance with evidence handling procedures, including collection of hard copy and electronic documents

      Dates/Locations:

      No Events

      Duration: 5 Days

      Course Content:

        • Module 01. Computer Forensics in Today’s World
        • Module 02. Computer Forensics Investigation Process
        • Module 03. Understanding Hard Disks and File Systems
        • Module 04. Data Acquisition and Duplication
        • Module 05. Defeating Anti-forensics Techniques
        • Module 06. Operating System Forensics (Windows, Mac, Linux)
        • Module 07. Network Forensics
        • Module 08. Investigating Web Attacks
        • Module 09. Database Forensics
        • Module 10. Cloud Forensics
        • Module 10. Malware Forensics
        • Module 11. Investigating Email Crimes
        • Module 12. Investigating Email Crimes
        • Module 13. Mobile Forensics
        • Module 14. Forensics Report Writing and Presentation

       

      Prerequisites:

          • 2+ years of proven information security work experience
          • Educational background with digital security specialization

        Target Audience:

          • Law Enforcement
          • Defense & Military
          • E-Business Security
          • Systems Administrators
          • Legal Professionals
          • Banking & Insurance professionals
          • Government Agencies
          • IT Managers

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      Observations of Instructor Led Training with Real Hardware

      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.