N-485: In-Depth Securing Networks with Cisco Firepower Threat Defense NGFW

Course Overview:

An in-depth course on how to use and configure Cisco Firepower Threat Defense technology, from device setup and configuration and including routing, high availability, Firepower Threat Defense migration, traffic control, and Network Address Translation (NAT). Students implement advanced Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) features, including network intelligence, file type detection, network based malware detection, and deep packet inspection.
Students will also learn how to configure site to site VPN, remote access VPN, and SSL decryption before moving on to detailed analysis, system administration, and troubleshooting. This course combines lecture materials and hands on labs throughout to make sure that students are able to successfully deploy and manage the Cisco Firepower system.

It is a five-day instructor-led course that is aimed at providing network security engineers with the knowledge and skills that are needed to implement and maintain perimeter solutions that are based on Cisco Firepower security appliances. At the end of the course, students will be able to reduce risk to their IT infrastructure and applications using Cisco Firepower security appliance features, and provide detailed operations support for the Firepower appliance.

Attendees to N-485: In-Depth Securing Networks with Cisco Firepower Threat Defense NGFW will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

Understand Sourcefire, Firepower 6.2, FireAMP, and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
Configure the Firepower Management Center (FMC)
Raise you confidence managing the Firepower Manager and Firepower tThreat Defense (FTD)
Describe the Cisco Firepower Systems infrastructure
Navigate the user interface and administrative features of the Cisco Firepower 6.2 system, including advanced analysis and reporting functionality to properly assess threats
Describe the System Configuration and Health policies and implement them
Describe the role Network Discovery (Firepower) technology plays in the Cisco devices
Describe, create, and implement objects for use in Access Control policies
Create DNS and URL policies and configure Sinkholes
Configure FTD policies such as Platform, Routing, Interface, Zones, PreFilter, QoS, NAT and Flex Config!
Describe advanced policy configuration and Firepower system configuration options
Configure Malware Policies to find and stop Malware
Understand Security Intelligence, and how to configure SI to stop attacks NOW!
Configure policies to find and stop Ransomware
Understand how to fine tune IPS policies
Understand how to find tun Snort Preprocessor policies (NAP)
Configure Correlation events, white rules, traffic profiles and create respective events and remediate them
Analyze events
Create reporting templates and schedule them
Configure backups, rule updates, Firepower Recommendations, URL updates, and more to run every week automatically
Set up external authentication for users using LDAP/Realms
Configuring system integration, realms, and identity sources
Configure FMC domains and implement them
Configure FTD HA with two FTD devices
SSL Policy – decrypt your traffic
AnyConnect and Site-to-Site VPN
Understand network and host based AMP. Configure and analyze host based AMP
Understand Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Configure ISE and integrate with Cisco FMC identity policy using PxGrid

Prerequisites:

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. or equivalent
Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (CCNA Security) certification. or equivalent
Working knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack

Course Overview: PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack Training Class is a five-day course that teaches students to configure and manage the entire line of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. This course combines PA-213 and PA-212 and adds a half day introduction to Panorama and Troubleshooting. Through hands-on training, students learn high end skills of how to integrate Palo Alto next-generation firewalls into their network infrastructure. 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.

This course sets up the foundation for the two day course PA-232: Palo Alto Networks Panorama Manage Multiple Firewalls. 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, Cisco, Unix, and Windows certifications. Attendees to the PA-215: Palo Alto Firewall Essentials FastTrack Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations: No Events

Duration 5 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 firewall, including hands-on experience in configuring the security, networking, threat prevention, logging, and reporting features of the Palo Alto Networks Operating System (PAN-OS). Additionally Panorama and Troubleshooting are addressed.

Day 1 Module 0 – Introduction & Overview Module 1 – Administration & Management Configuration Management PAN-OS & Software Updates Service Route Configuration Log Forwarding GUI, CLI, and API Module 2 – Interface Configuration L2 & L3 Vwire Tap Interface Management in Security Zones VLANs QoS	Day 2 Module 3 – Layer 3 Configuration L3 Configuration and DHCP NAT DNS Proxy Policy Based Forwarding in Introduction to IPv6 Module 4 – App-ID App-ID Process Policy Administration Module 5 – Content-ID Antivirus Anti-spyware Vulnerability URL Filtering File Blocking and Wildfire Data Filtering DoS Protection Botnet
Day 3 Module 6 – VM Firewall Downlaod VM Template Configure ESXi Configure VM Module 7 – Decryption SSL Inbound and Outbound Module 8 – Custom Signatures Defining New Application Signatures Application Override Custom Threat ID	Day 4 Module 9 – User-ID User-ID Agent Terminal Server Agent XML API Captive Portal Module 10 – VPN and GlobalProtect Psec Tunnels GlobalProtect Agent Portal Gateway HIP
Day 5 Module 11 – High Availability Active/Passive Active/Active Module 12 – Panorama Device Groups & Objects Shared Policy Configuration Management Reporting

Prerequisites:

Security+, Network+, CCNA and networking experience is recommended.

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

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PA-242: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Manage Cyberthreats (EDU-231)

Course Overview: PA-242: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Manage Cyberthreats (EDU-231) Training Class is a two-day course that teaches students strategies in defense against cyberthreats. Successful completion of this course enables administrators to better understand the threat landscape. 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.

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-242: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Manaage Cyberthreats (EDU-231) Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations: No Events

Duration: 2 days

Course Objectives: Students attending this training course will gain an understanding of cyberthreats and their characteristics. Students will learn how to manage cyberthreats using security policies, profiles, and signatures to protect their network against emerging threats.

Day 1

Mod 1: Threat Landscape
- Advanced Persistent
- Threats
- Data Breaches and Tactics
- Threat Management
- Strategies
Mod 2: Integrated
- Approach to Threat
- Protection
- Integrated Approach to
- Protection
- Next-Generation Firewall
- Advanced Endpoint
- Protection
Mod 3: Network Visibility
- Zero Trust Model
- SSL Decryption
- Decryption Policy
Mod 4: Reducing the Attack
- Surf
- ection

Day 2

Mod 5: Handling Known
- Threats
- WildFire Analysis
- Security Profiles
Mod 6: Handling Unknown
- Traffic and Zero-Day Exploits
- WildFire
- Researching Threat Events
- Identifying Unknown
- Applications
Mod 7: Investigating
- Breaches
- Identify IOCs Using
- App-Scope
- Log Correlation
- Finding Infected Host
Mod 8: Using Custom
- Signatures
- Creating Custom App-IDs
- Threat Signatures

Prerequisites:

Students must complete the PA-213: Install, Configure, and Manage course
Understanding of network concepts, including routing, switching, and IP addressing
In-depth knowledge of port-based security and security technologies such as IPS, proxy, and content filtering

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

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N-455: Securing Networks with ASA Fundamentals (SNAF)

Course Overview:

In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to configure, maintain, and operate Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance.

Attendees to N-455: Securing Networks with ASA Fundamentals (SNAF) will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

Introducing Cisco Security Appliance Technology and Features
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and PIX Security Appliance Families
Getting Started with Cisco Security Appliances
Essential Security Appliance Configuration
Configuring Translations and Connection Limits
Using ACLS and Content Filtering
Configuring Object Grouping
Switching and Routing on Security Appliances
Configuring AAA for Cut-Through Proxy
Configuring the Cisco Modular Policy Framework
Configuring Advanced Protocol Handling
Configuring Threat Detection
Configuring Site-to-Site VPNS Using PreShared Keys
Configuring Security Appliance Remote Access VPNs
Configuring Cisco Security Appliance for SSL VPN
Configuring Transparent Firewalls Mode
Configuring Security Contexts
Configuring Failover
Managing Security Appliances

Prerequisites:

CCNA certification

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TN-965 Windows Security Automation with Powershell

Course Overview:

PowerShell is made for Security Operations (SecOps) automation on Windows. SecOps requires automation in order to scale out security changes and monitoring beyond a handful of hosts. For example, when a vulnerability must be remediated but there is no patch for it yet, automation is needed to quickly and consistently enact the changes necessary. PowerShell “remoting” is encrypted remote command execution of PowerShell scripts in a way that can scale to thousands of endpoints and servers.

Imagine being able to hunt for indicators of compromise across thousands of machines with just a few lines of PowerShell code. Or imagine having the local Administrator account password reset every night on thousands of endpoints in a secure way, and being able to retrieve that password securely too.

We will show you to do these tasks and more. Transcription logging for forensics, strong encryption code signing, application whitelisting of scripts, IPSec port control, and Just Enough Admin (JEA).

As more and more of our systems are moved up to the cloud, PowerShell will become even more important. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Hyper-V and VMware already support PowerShell administration for many tasks.

Attendees to TN-965: Windows Security Automation with PowerShell will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

Intended Audience
This course is intended for IT Professionals already experienced in general Windows Server and Windows Client administration or already experienced in administering and supporting Application servers and services including applications like Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL. It is broadly intended for students who want to use Windows PowerShell to automate administrative tasks from the command line, using any Microsoft or independent software vendor (ISV) product that supports Windows PowerShell manageability.

Course Objectives:

PowerShell Overview and Tips

- Getting started running commands
- 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.
- Customizing your profile script

What Can We Do With PowerShell

- PowerShell remote command execution
- Fan-out remoting and security
- File copy via PowerShell remoting
- Capturing the output of commands
- Parsing text files and logs with regex patterns
- Searching remote event logs faster with XPath
- Mounting the registry as a drive
- Exporting data to CSV, HTML and JSON files
- Parsing and mining nmap port scanner XML output
- Running scripts as scheduled jobs
- Pushing out scripts through Group Policy
- Importing modules and dot-sourcing functions
- http://www.PowerShellGallery.com

Write your own scripts

- Writing your own functions
- Passing arguments into your scripts
- Function parameters and returning output
- Flow control: if-then, do-while, foreach, switch
- The .NET Framework class library: a playground
- How to pipe data in/out of your scripts

Continuous Secure Configuration Enforcement

- How to use Group Policy and PowerShell together
- Automate with INF security templates
- How to customize INF templates
- Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM)
- SECEDIT.EXE scripting
- Building an in-house security repository for SecOps/DevOps
- NSA’s Secure Host Baseline GPOs

Group Policy Precision Targeting

- Managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) with PowerShell
- LSDOU, Block Inheritance, Enforced GPOs
- Group Policy permissions for targeting changes
- ADMX templates for mass registry editing
- Deploying PowerShell startup and logon scripts
- WMI item-level targeting of GPO preferences
- GPO scheduled tasks to run PowerShell scripts
- Remote command execution via GPO (not remoting)
- Empowering the Hunt Team to fight back!

Server Hardening for SecOps/DevOps

- Server Manager scripting with PowerShell
- Adding and removing roles and feature
- Remotely inventory roles, features, and apps
- Why Server Nano or Server Core
- Running PowerShell automatically after service failure
- Service account identities, passwords, and risks
- Tools to reset service account passwords securely

PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

- DSC is Configuration Management built in for free
- Using DSC for continuous reinforcement of settings
- Writing your own DSC configuration scripts
- Free DSC resource modules: www.PowerShellGallery.com
- How to push DSC configurations to many targets
- DSC background job processing in push mode
- Examples: sync files, install roles, manage groups
- Auditing a remote target against a DSC MOF template
- “ApplyAndAutoCorrect” mode for continuous enforcement

PowerShell Just Enough Admin (JEA)

- JEA is Windows sudo, like on Linux
- JEA is Windows setuid root, like on Linux
- Restricting commands and arguments
- Verbose transcription logging
- How to set up and configure JEA
- Privilege Access Workstations (PAWs)

PowerShell and WMI

- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service
- What is WMI and why do hackers abuse it so much?
- Using PowerShell to query WMI CIM classes
- WMI authentication and traffic encryption
- Inventory operating system versions and installed software
- WMI remote command execution versus PowerShell remoting
- PowerShell security best practices
- PowerShell transcription logging to catch hackers

Prerequisites:

Previous Windows Server and Windows Client management knowledge and hands on experience.
Experience installing and configuring Windows Server into existing enterprise environments, or as standalone installations.
Knowledge and experience of network adapter configuration, basic Active Directory user administration, and basic disk configuration.
Knowledge and hands on experience specifically with Windows Server 2012/Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8/Windows 8.1 would be of benefit but is not essential.

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