TN-999: Reverse Engineering Malware Course

Course Overview:

This course is designed for professionals that are expected to do malware analysis. A skills focus enables the student to better absorb the subject matter and perform successfully 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 Reverse Engineering Malware.

Attendees to TN-999: Reverse Engineering Malware will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • Toolkit and Lab Assembly
  • Malware Code and Behavioral Analysis Fundamentals
  • Malicious Static and Dynamic Code Analysis
  • Collecting/Probing System and Network Activities
  • Analysis of Malicious Document Files
  • Analyzing Protected Executables
  • Analyzing Web-Based Malware
  • DLL Construction and API Hooking
  • Common Windows Malware Characteristics in x86 Assembly
  • Unpacking Protected Malware
  • In-Depth Analysis of Malicious Browser Scripts, Flash Programs and Office
  • In-Depth Analysis of Malicious Executables
  • Windows x86 Assembly Code Concepts for Revers-Engineering Memory Forensics for Rootkit Analysis

Prerequisites:

  • Strong understanding of core systems and network concepts
  • Exposure to programming and assembly concepts
  • Comfortable with command line access

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VM-325: VMware View: Install, Configure and Manage

Course Overview:

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware ViewTM suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware® ThinAppTM.  Based on customer specification, this course can be based on View 4.x or 5.x, and ThinApp 4.x or 5.x releases.

Attendees to VM-325: VMware View: Install, Configure and Manage will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

At the end of this course, you should understand the features and operations of View and be able to:

  • Install and configure View components
  • Create and manage dedicated and floating desktop pools
  • Deploy and manage linked-clone virtual desktops
  • Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode
  • Configure secure access to desktops through a public network
  • Use ThinApp to package applications

Date/Locations:

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Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Module 2: Introduction to VMware View
  • Module 3: View Connection Server
  • Module 4: View Desktops
  • Module 5: View Client Options
  • Module 6: View Administratory
  • Module 7: Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
  • Module 8: Local-Mode Desktops
  • Module 9: Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
  • Module 10: Managing VMware View Security
  • Module 11: View Manager Performance and Scalability
  • Module 12: VMware® ThinAppTM

Prerequisites:

  • VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure and Manage
  • Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory Administration
  • Experience with VMware vSphereTM
  • Before attending the course, students must be able to perform the following tasks:
    • Create a template in VMware vCenterTM Server and deploy a virtual machine from it
    • Modify a template customization file
    • Open a virtual machine console in vCenter Server and access the guest operating system
    • Configure Active Directory services

 

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TN-323: SharePoint 2010 and 2013 for Project Management

Course Overview: 

This hands-on, lab-driven course directs managers, project managers, and team leaders through the real-world process of using SharePoint to propel projects.  Improve efficiency and boost the likelihood of success as you learn to build a customized Project Management Information System (PMIS), develop SharePoint project sites, build document libraries and management protocols.  You will integrate Microsoft Office software, build SharePoint Workflows, archive completed projects, and much more during SharePoint project management training.  Add these critical SharePoint tools to your project management expertise and experience the drastic difference that comes with truly effective project management.

Attendees to TN-323: SharePoint 2010/2013 for Project Management will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

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Duration: 3 days

Course Objectives:

  • SharePoint as a Project Management Information System (PMIS)
  • Creating a PMIS
  • Enabling Team Collaboration with SharePoint
  • Tracking Projects with SharePoint
  • Working with Business Intelligence
  • Establishing Processes and Standards with SharePoint
  • Managing Meeting with Meeting Workspaces
  • Working with Microsoft Access
  • Creating a PMO View
  • Concluding a Project

Prerequisites:

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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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    Privacy Policy

    Privacy Policy

    Effective Date: August 1, 2026

    TechNow, Inc. respects the privacy of our students and visitors to our website and is committed to protecting the information entrusted to us.

    This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and the circumstances under which it may be disclosed.

    1. Information We Collect

    We may collect information necessary to provide and administer our educational courses and related services.

    This information may include:

    • Name
    • Mailing or billing address
    • Telephone or mobile phone number
    • Email address
    • Course enrollment information
    • Student account information
    • Course progress and quiz activity
    • Information necessary to process course registration and payment
    • Communications between the student and our organization concerning course administration

    We collect only information that is reasonably necessary to operate our courses, administer student accounts, communicate with students, and provide related services.

    2. How We Use Student Information

    We use student information solely for legitimate business and educational purposes related to the delivery and administration of our courses.

    This may include:

    • Registering students for courses
    • Creating and maintaining student accounts
    • Providing access to course materials and quizzes
    • Communicating course schedules and changes
    • Sending course reminders and administrative notifications
    • Communicating logistical information necessary for a course
    • Communicating urgent or emergency information related to the delivery of a course
    • Responding to student questions and requests
    • Administering payments and registrations
    • Maintaining records necessary to operate our business and educational programs
    • Providing technical support for our student platform
    • Protecting the security and integrity of our systems

    3. No Sale or Marketing Use of Student Contact Information

    We do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise provide student telephone numbers, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, or other student contact information to third parties for their own marketing, advertising, lead generation, or sales purposes.

    We do not use student contact information to conduct unrelated marketing campaigns.

    We do not sell or exchange student contact information for leads, affiliate marketing, or other commercial marketing purposes.

    Our communications with students are limited to information reasonably related to their enrollment, courses, student accounts, course logistics, and urgent or emergency matters associated with delivering a course.

    4. SMS Text Messaging

    Student SMS Notifications

    We may use SMS text messaging to communicate with students who have student accounts associated with our courses.

    We only take registrations over the phone and when asked for a preferred phone number you were asked: “Would you like to receive course-related text messages at this mobile number?”  This is to initiate automated communications.  Once logged into the TechNow Quiz Platform there is a button at the top of your dashboard “SMS: on“, with a mouse hover text tooltip of “You are currently enrolled to receive SMS notifications about your student account and courses. PRESS TO DISABLE SMS”.  If you press the button it becomes “SMS: off“, with a mouse hover text tooltip of “You are currently NOT enrolled to receive SMS notifications about your student account and courses. PRESS TO ENABLE SMS”.  Changes of “SMS: off” and “SMS:on” are logged as text messaging Opt-Out and Opt-in.

    SMS messages are used for course-related and administrative communications, not marketing or promotional campaigns.  Most TechNow communications is through email, SMS is used for time critical and emergency communications.

    Examples of SMS communications may include:

    • Student account notifications
    • Course enrollment or welcome notifications
    • Course reminders
    • Class schedule information
    • Schedule changes
    • Class cancellations
    • Location or logistical information
    • Instructor or course-related administrative notifications
    • Urgent or emergency information related to the delivery of a course
    • Other communications reasonably necessary to administer a student’s participation in a course

    We do not use student SMS messaging to send advertising, promotional offers, sales messages, or unrelated marketing communications.

    SMS Consent

    Students who elect to receive SMS messages authorize TechNow, Inc. to send course-related and administrative text messages to the mobile telephone number provided by the student.

    SMS consent is not a condition of purchasing or enrolling in a course.

    Message frequency varies depending on course enrollment, account activity, and circumstances requiring course-related communication. Message and data rates may apply.

    Opting Out of SMS Messages

    Students may disable SMS notifications through the SMS settings available within their student dashboard.

    Students may also reply STOP to an SMS message to request that SMS messaging be discontinued.

    After an SMS opt-out request is received, our platforms prevent additional SMS messages from being sent to that telephone number.

    A student may request assistance regarding SMS messaging by replying HELP where supported or by contacting us using the contact information provided on our website.

    Disabling SMS notifications does not prevent a student from accessing their student account or participating in a course. Students who disable SMS may still receive important information through other available communication methods when necessary.

    SMS Information Is Not Sold or Shared for Marketing

    We do not sell, rent, or share mobile telephone numbers or SMS consent information with third parties for their own marketing or advertising purposes.

    SMS consent information is used solely for administering our student communication program and providing the course-related communications described in this Privacy Policy.

    5. TechNow Does NOT Share Information With Service Providers

    Unlike most companies, TechNow does not use third-party service providers  to operate our business, we are a SELF HOSTED company.

    For example, we internally self host:

    • Website
    • Student-platform
    • Email
    • Information technology and security
    • Database and infrastructure services

    TechNow interacts with a Bank for Payment Processing and with a trusted SMS provider for SMS delivery.   A student’s mobile telephone number and message information may be transmitted through our trusted SMS service provider solely to deliver the requested or authorized course-related communication.

    6. Course Platform Information

    Students may receive an account on our course and quiz platform.

    Information associated with a student account may include:

    • Login credentials
    • Course enrollment
    • Quiz and assessment activity
    • Course progress
    • Account settings
    • Communication preferences
    • SMS preferences

    This information is used to provide and administer the student’s courses and account.

    7. Payment Information

    When payment is required for a course, payment information may be processed through a third-party payment processor.

    We do not retain payment-card information on our student quiz platform unless specifically stated otherwise.

    Payment processors may collect and process payment information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.

    8. Cookies and Technical Information

    Our website and student platform may use cookies, session information, logs, and similar technical mechanisms necessary to:

    • Maintain authenticated sessions
    • Keep students logged into their accounts
    • Provide website and application functionality
    • Maintain security
    • Detect and prevent unauthorized access
    • Diagnose technical problems
    • Improve the reliability of our services

    We do not use student contact information for third-party advertising or behavioral marketing.

    9. Information Security

    We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect student information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

    No method of storing or transmitting information over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security of information.

    10. Retention of Information

    We retain student information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, administer courses and student accounts, maintain appropriate business records, comply with legal or regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, and protect our rights and systems.

    When information is no longer reasonably necessary for these purposes, we may securely delete or otherwise dispose of it.

    11. Children’s Privacy

    Our courses and services are intended for the individuals described by our course enrollment requirements. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.

    If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate authorization, please contact us.

    12. Third-Party Websites

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    We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party websites. We encourage users to review the privacy policies of those websites before providing personal information.

    13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

    We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, technology, business practices, or legal requirements.

    When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date shown at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

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    If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or our SMS messaging practices, please contact us:

    TechNow Inc.
    14117 Jones Maltsberger Rd
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