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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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Upcoming Events

  • CT-325: Security+
    • 09/21/2026 – 09/25/2026
    • San Antonio
  • RH-295: Linux System Administration II
    • 09/21/2026 – 09/25/2026
    • San Antonio
  • PM-325: Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Preparation
    • 09/28/2026 – 10/02/2026
    • San Antonio
  • TN-415: Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI)
    • 09/28/2026 – 10/02/2026
    • San Antonio
  • VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage
    • 09/28/2026 – 10/02/2026
    • San Antonio
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    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.

    Certified Offensive AI Security Professional (COASP) validates the competencies required for practitioners who need to demonstrate offensive AI security skills, emulating adversaries, validating defenses, and leading red-team/blue-team exercises to keep AI resilient, reliable, and auditable

    The Certified Offensive AI Security Professional (COASP) equips you to identify and neutralize AI-specific threats before attackers do. And Bridges security, engineering, and data science so controls exist across the full AI life cycle.

    Participants will gain hands-on experience to perform end-to-end adversarial testing and deliver defensive validation evidence including the ability to simulate adversarial AI kill chains, Harden AI architectures by secure system prompts, context windows, tool integrations, RAG pipelines, and agent memory, Conducting AI security assessments aligned to MITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM/ML Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and DoD Test & Evaluation practices , This course covers how to build SOC-ready capabilities for AI-focused detection logic, incident playbooks, and forensic procedures , & how to execute prompt injection, adversarial prompting , Assess AI supply-chain risk , Implement defensive engineering controls and Produce assurance and compliance artifacts.

    By the end of the course, learners will be well-prepared to take the Certified Offensive AI Security Professional (COASP) exam and demonstrate the ability to exploit vulnerabilities in LLMs and agents, and build defense that survive real world attacks, learners will master offensive techniques that break AI before the attackers do.

     

    Course Outline: 

    01. Offensive AI and AI System Hacking Methodology

    02. AI Reconnaissance and Attack Surface Mapping

    03. AI Vulnerability Scanning and Fuzzing

    04. Prompt Injection and LLM Application Attacks

    05. Adversarial Machine Learning and Model Privacy Attacks

    06. Data and Training Pipeline Attacks

    07. Agentic AI and Model-to-Model Attacks

    08. AI Infrastructure and Supply Chain Attacks

    09. AI Security Testing, Evaluation, and Hardening

    10. AI Incident Response and Forensics 

     

    Prerequisites: 

    TN-412: Artificial Intelligence Essentials (AI|E) 

     

    Dates/Locations:

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    Course Overview:

    This course engages students by providing in-depth knowledge of the most prominent and powerful attack vectors and an environment to perform these attacks in numerous hands-on scenarios. This course goes far beyond simple scanning for low-hanging fruit, and shows penetration testers how to model the abilities of an advanced attacker to find significant flaws in a target environment and demonstrate the business risk associated with these flaws.

    Attendees to TN-919:Penetration Tester course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Date/Locations:

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    Course Duration: 5 days

    Course Objectives:

    • Advanced Hash Manipulation
    • Command Shell vs. Terminal Access
    • Enumerating Users
    • Exploitation Fundamentals
    • Injection Attacks
    • Legal Issues
    • Metasploit
    • Moving Files with Exploits
    • Obtaining and Passing Password Representations
    • Overview of Passwords
    • Penetration Testing Foundations
    • Penetration Testing Process
    • Penetration Testing via the Command Line
    • Profiling the Target
    • Reconnaissance
    • Scanning for Targets
    • Using a Proxy to Attack a Web Application
    • Vulnerability Scanning
    • Wireless Crypto and Client Attacks
    • Wireless Fundamentals

    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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    Course Overview:

    This course delivers the technical knowledge, insight, and hands-on training to receive in-depth knowledge on Wireshark® and TCP/IP communications analysis. You will learn to use Wireshark to identify the most common causes of performance problems in TCP/IP communications. You will learn about the underlying theory of TCP/IP and the most used application protocols, so that you can intelligently examine network traffic for performance issues or possible Indicators of Compromise (IoC).

    Duration: 5 Days

    Audience:

    Anyone interested in learning to troubleshoot and optimize TCP/IP networks and analyze network traffic with Wireshark, especially network engineers, information technology specialists, and security analysts.

    Course Prerequisites:

    We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisite:
    • Network+

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Course Outline:

    DAY ONE

    Course Set Up and Analyzer Testing

    Network Analysis Overview
    Wireshark Functionality Overview
    Capturing Wired and Wireless Traffic
    Define Global and Personal Preferences for Faster Analysis
    Defined Time Values and Interpret Summaries
    Interpret Basic Trace File Statistics to Identify Trends
    Create and Apply Display Filters for Efficient Analysis

    DAY TWO

    Follow Streams and Reassemble Data
    Use Wireshark’s Expert System to Identify Anomalies
    TCP/IP Analysis Overview
    Analyze Common TCP/IP Traffic Patterns

    DAY THREE

    Graph I/O Rates and TCP Trends
    802.11 (WLAN) Analysis Fundamentals
    Voice over IP (VoIP) Analysis Fundamentals
    Network Forensics Fundamentals

    DAY FOUR

    Detect Scanning and Discovery Processes
    Analyze Suspect Traffic

    DAY FIVE

    Use Command‐Line Tools

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