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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:
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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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Course Overview:
This course is very hands-on with respect to SP 800-53 controls as related to ICD-503, leveraging experience with DCD 6/3, and incorporating a broad array of technologies found in the field. Assessors and Auditors have to face many technologies that are not part of the main stream. TechNow has gone to great efforts to build a very broad, comprehensive, and complex lab to simulate many scenarios and architectures. Technologies such as a network appliance that is not a typical infrastructure product, a radio/satellite communications device, or many other technologies that build up a weapon system. Students learn how controls are integrated into many different devices and how they fit in the overall security architecture of monitoring, reporting, and compliance testing.
Directly discussed are overlays for different requirements i.e.: tactical, medical, network type: JWICS, SIPR; IC or AF. TechNow has developed a funnel concept to overlays to exemplify the encapsulation of a control within different requirements. TechNow has over 15 years experience in Trusted Solaris/Trusted Extensions and labeled security. Cross Domain overlays are presented that fits the work flow of an assesor. PII overlays and any overlays that an organization uses and can be made available are also presented.
This course allows the student to leverage years of experience in DoD DCD 6/34 for transition to the Risk Management Framework (RMF) applied to the Intelligence Community as mandated by ICD 503. Utilizing NIST SP 800-37 to establish a baseline of RMF knowledge, the student learns how to integrate the NIST pubs to provide cohesive information assurance architectures and compliance. ICD 503 scorecard evaluations are integral in demonstrating a successful ICD 503 compliance program. TechNow's ICD 503 course provides students with the skill to assess security programs and evaluate ICD 503 compliance to build an improvement and sustainable program for score consistency. TechNow's instructors have unparralleled expertise in federal compliance initiatives, and we bring this expertise instructing students on the complete life cycle of RMF.
More than a simple checklist, we instruct students not only how to validate essential security controls, programs, and metrics, but that they are operating effectively. The student leaves the course knowing how to: identify gaps where controls, programs, or metrics are incomplete, missing or ineffective, and provide actionable findings and recommend remediation strategies. Students learn to internalize NIST pubs to meaningul and effective IA guidelines and work with the Body of Evidence templates which include: Risk Assessment Report (RAR), Systems Security Plan (SSP), Security Assessment Report (SAR), and Plans of Action and Milestone (POAM).
TechNow training materials are aligned with the most recent set of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) policies standards, processes, policies and instructions to be addressed/explained include ICD 503, ICS 503-1, ICS 500-16, ICS 500-18, ICS 500-27, ICD 502, NIST SP 800-37, NIST SP 800-30, NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-53A, NIST SP 800-137, NIST SP 800-47, CNSSP 22, CNSSI 1253, and CNSSI 4009.
A majority of time is spent on in-depth compliance review of NIST SP 800-53 controls. Instruction discusses which method should be used to test and validate each security control and what evidence should be gathered. This course is not theory or death by power point. Real scenarios are presented as exercises. A complete live cyber range simulating the IC is utilized for hands-on labs for techniques of validating and documenting compliance of NIST SP 800-53 controls as related to ICD 503.
Date/Locations:
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Duration: 5 days
Course Objectives:
- Establish a baseline of RMF knowledge
- Validate essential security controls, programs, and metrics
- DoD DCD 6/3 to ICD 503 Transition
- Lab Environtment and the Cyber Range
- Overlays: Tactical, Medical, Network type(JWICS, SIPR; IC or AF), Cross Domain, PII
- Risk Assessment Report (RAR)
- Systems Security Plan (SSP)
- Security Assessment Report (SAR)
- Plans of Action and Milestone (POAM)
Prerequisites:
Experience in the field of auditing and assesments.
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Course Overview:
A skills focus enables the student to better absorb the subject matter and perform successfully on the exam. 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 the attacks and the effectiveness. Students then gain network experience and use sniffing to help exemplify the benefit of learning wired and wireless security configurations. The course concludes with exercising real attack strategies to demonstrate the techniques acquired throughout the course.
Attendees to TN-939: Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Date/Locations:
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Duration: 9 days
Course Objectives:
- Backdoors & Trojan Horses
- Buffer Overflows
- Covering Tracks: Networks
- Covering Tracks: Systems
- Denial of Service Attacks
- Exploiting Systems Using Netcat
- Format String Attacks
- Incident Handling Overview and Preparation
- Incident Handling Phase 2: Identification
- Incident Handling Phase 3: Containment
- Incident Handling: Recovering and Improving Capabilities
- IP Address Spoofing
- Network Sniffing
- Password Attacks
- Reconnaissance
- Rootkits
- Scanning: Host Discovery
- Scanning: Network and Application Vulnerability scanning and tools
- Scanning: Network Devices (Firewall rules determination, fragmentation, and IDS/IPS evasion)
- Scanning: Service Discovery
- Session Hijacking, Tools and Defenses
- Types of Incidents
- Virtual Machine Attacks
- Web Application Attacks
- Worms, Bots & Bot-Nets
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: m_jurrens
Instructor comments: Both instructors Mr. Askey and Mr. Hackney, were very good. the open learning environment was extremely productive and I felt we all learned far more that we ever would out of a structured rote memorization course.
User: natebonds
Instructor comments: Both Mr. Askey and Hackney were extremely knowledgeable. They were also extremely interested in helping each student learn. I was particularly impressed with the way they tailored the course to optimize our time since we weren't testing. I feel like I know much much more than I did when the class started.
Facilities comments: The facilities were fine. I would have preferred it be closer to Lackland.
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Course Overview: PA-243: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Debug and Troubleshoot is a three-day course on how to troubleshoot the full line of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. Students will receive hands-on experience troubleshooting the security, networking, threat prevention, logging, and reporting features of the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® operating system. Upon completion of this class, students will have an in-depth knowledge of how to troubleshoot visibility and control over applications, users, and content. 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-243: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Debug and Troubleshoot (EDU-311) Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
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Duration: 3 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).
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This course is in no way associated with Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
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