Course Overview:
CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ is for both IT and non-technical professionals who require the essential business acumen needed to make informed cloud service decisions. Cloud Essentials is a vendor-neutral credential designed to validate the candidate has an understanding of basic terms and definitions of cloud computing along with the different processes involved in the successful adoption of cloud computing and its implications for organizations’ use.
TechNow is a CompTIA partner and uses official CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ curriculum.
Attendees to CT-213: Cloud Essentials+ will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
| Date/Time | Event |
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10/13/2026 - 10/15/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
CT-213: Cloud Essentials+ TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
Course Duration: 3 days
Course Objectives:
- Domain 1 : Cloud Concepts
- Understand cloud principles
- Identify cloud networking concepts & storage techniques
- Understand cloud design aspects
- Domain 2: Business Principles of Cloud Environments
- Identify and employ appropriate cloud assessments like feasibility studies, benchmarking, or gap analysis
- Highlight key business aspects of cloud vendor relation adoption, and comprehend cloud migration approaches
- Domain 3: Management and Technical Operations
- Explain aspects of operating within the cloud, such as data management or optimization
- Understand the role of DevOps in cloud environments, like API integration or provisioning
- Domain 4: Governance, Risk, Compliance and Security for the Cloud
- Understand risk management and response concepts related to cloud services and identify the importance and impacts of compliance in the cloud, such as regulatory concerns or international standards.
Course Prerequisites:
- CompTIA recommends that a candidate have at least 6 months of experience in an IT environment, with direct involvement in IT-related tasks responsibilities and/or decision making.
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TechNow, Inc., a training company, was founded in 1990. TechNow celebrates 35 years of regularly scheduled commercial training delivery in 2025 and has evolved into a global training company that is dynamic and able to customize our training to meet the needs of our customers. Our focus is hands-on, skills-based hardware/software and security training for those who want stay current with today’s ever-changing technologies. We are a Pearson Vue Testing Center and have developed a proven testing program, including mobile testing, that ends with certification at the end of many of our courses. Our courses are taught by professional educators and experts in their respective fields and bring to the classroom a wealth of knowledge from the “real world”. Our customers include many Fortune 500 companies as well as the Department of Defense, Federal Government, and Intelligence Agencies.
At TechNow our goal is to help you achieve your goals and we strive for 100% customer service and satisfaction. TechNow‘s certification pass rate is the highest in the industry. Our web-site and our professional training advisors will assist you with selecting courses that help meet your organization’s objectives and the right career path to stay competitive in today’s market.
To learn more about TechNow or to schedule your training, call us at 800-324-2294.
Course Overview:
Cisco DoD Comply-to-Connect (C2C) course teaches you how to implement and deploy a Department of Defense (DoD) Comply-to-Connect network architecture using Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). This training covers implementation of 802.1X for both wired and wireless devices and how Cisco ISE uses that information to apply policy control and enforcement. Additionally, other topics like supplicants, non-supplicants, ISE profiler, authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and public key infrastructure (PKI) support, reporting and troubleshooting are covered. Finally, C2C specific use case scenarios are covered.
This training also earns you 32 Continuing Education (CE) credits toward recertification.
Dates/Locations:
No Events
Duration: 5 days
Course Outline:
Section 1: C2C Fundamentals
- Comply to Connect Overview
- From C2C to ZTA
- Steps to Implement C2C
Section 2: Cisco Identity-Based Networking Services
- Cisco IBNS Overview
- AAA Role in Cisco IBNS
- Compare Cisco IBNS and Cisco ISE Solutions
- Explore Cisco IBNS Architecture Components
Section 3: Introducing Cisco ISE Architecture
- Cisco ISE as a Network Access Policy Engine
- Cisco ISE Use Cases
- Cisco ISE Functions
Section 4: Introducing Cisco ISE Deployment
- Cisco ISE Deployment Models
- Cisco ISE Licensing and Network Requirements
- Cisco ISE Context Visibility Features
- New Features in Cisco ISE 3.X
Section 5: Introducing Cisco ISE Policy Enforcement Components
- 802.1X for Wired and Wireless Access
- MAC Authentication Bypass for Wired and Wireless Access
- Identity Management
- Active Directory Identity Source
- Additional Identity Sources
- Certificate Services
Section 6: Introducing Cisco ISE Policy Configuration
- Cisco ISE Policy
- Cisco ISE Authentication Rules
- Cisco ISE Authorization Rules
Section 7: PKI and Advanced Supplicants
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- TEAP in Comply to Connect (C2C)
- Secure Client ISE features and Configuration for C2C
Section 8: Introducing the Cisco ISE Profiler
- Web Access with Cisco ISE
- ISE Profiler
- Cisco ISE Probes
- Profiling Policy
- Custom Attributes in Profile
Section 9: Introducing Cisco ISE Endpoint Compliance Services
- Endpoint Compliance Services Overview
Section 10: Configuring Client Posture Services and Compliance
- Client Posture Services and Provisioning Configuration
Section 11: Introducing Profiling Best Practices and Reporting
- Profiling Best Practices
Section 12: C2C Use Cases
- Cisco CX ISE Reporting Tool
- ISE Reporting
- ISE Hardening
- Profiling Best Practices for C2C
Section 13: C2C Third-Party Integrations-Tenable
- Tenable Use Case
- Tenable Overview and Capabilities
- Tenable Integration Prerequisites
- Tenable Integration Configuration
- Policy Design
- Policy Enforcement
- Enforcement Verification
Section 14: C2C Third-Party Integrations-MECM
- MECM Use Case
- MECM Overview and Capabilities
- MECM Integration Prerequisites
- MECM Integration Configuration
- Policy Design
- Policy Enforcement
- Enforcement Verification
Section 15: C2C Third-Party Integrations-Trellix
- Trellix Use Case
- Trellix Overview and Capabilities
- Trellix Integration Prerequisites
- Trellix Integration Configuration
- Policy Enforcement
- Enforcement Verification
Section 16: Troubleshooting Cisco ISE Policy and Third-Party NAD
- Cisco ISE Third-Party Network Access Device Support
- Troubleshooting Cisco ISE Policy Configuration
Section 17: Exploring Cisco TrustSec
- Cisco TrustSec Overview
- Cisco TrustSec Enhancements
- Cisco TrustSec Configuration
Section 18: Working with Network Access Devices
- Reviewing AAA
- Cisco ISE TACACS+ Device Administration
- Configuring TACACS+ Device Administration
- TACACS+ Device Administration Guidelines and Best Practices
Course Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:
- Familiarity with 802.1X
- Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
- Familiarity with Cisco IOS CLI for wired and wireless network devices
- Familiarity with Cisco Identity Service Engine
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-315: Complete Hack and Defend class you will learn the step by step process that hackers use to assess your enterprise network, probe it & hack into it in mixed-platform 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-315: Complete Hack & Defend 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 Information Security 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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User: dhonore
Instructor comments: Dave's presentation style is engaging and lively.
Facilities comments: The room was adequate for the needs of the class.
User: phouck
Instructor comments: David was very good. Although he went very fast at times.
Facilities comments: The room was ok. it was bit dark.
