Our TechNow Corporate Headquarters is located at:
14117 Jones Maltsberger San Antonio, TX 78247 (210) 733-1093
Course Overview:
This course is instructed with an instructor in the classroom with provided lab equipment and Cyber Range.
Students enrolled in the Certified Network Defender course, will gain a detailed understanding and hands on ability to function in real life situations involving network defense. They will gain the technical depth required to actively design a secure network in your organization. This program will be akin to learning math instead of just using a calculator.
This course gives you the fundamental understanding of the true construct of data transfer, network technologies, software technologies so that you understand how networks operate, understand what software is automating and how to analyze the subject material.
You will learn how to protect, detect and respond to, and predict threats on the network. This builds upon the typical knowledge and skills of Network Administrators in network components, traffic, performance and utilization, network topology, system locations, and security policies.
You will learn network defense fundamentals, the application of network security controls, protocols, perimeter appliances, secure IDS, VPN and firewall configuration. You will then learn the intricacies of network traffic signature, analysis and vulnerability scanning which will help you when you design greater network security policies and successful incident response plans. These skills will help you foster resiliency and continuity of operations during attacks.
This course supports a certification that is DoD approved 8570 Baseline Certificate and meets DoD 8140/8570 training requirements.
What’s Included:
- EC-Council official E-Courseware
- EC-Council iLabs access included for 6 months
- EC-Council official Certificate of Attendance
- CND Exam Voucher with 1 FREE RETAKE VOUCHER
Security Course Flow
Dates/Locations:
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10/26/2026 - 10/30/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
TN-545: Certified Network Defender TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
Duration: 5 Days
Course Content:
- Module 01. Network and Defense Strategies
- Module 02. Administrative Network Security
- Module 03. Technical Network Security
- Module 04. Network Perimeter Security
- Module 05. Endpoint Security-Windows Systems
- Module 06. Endpoint Security- Linux Systems
- Module 07. Endpoint Security- Mobile Devices
- Module 08. Endpoint Security- IoT Devices
- Module 09. Administrative Application Security
- Module 10. Data Security
- Module 11. Enterprise Virtual Network Security
- Module 12. Enterprise Cloud Network Security
- Module 13. Enterprise Wireless Network Security
- Module 14. Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
- Module 15. Network Logs Monitoring and Analysis
- Module 16. Incident Response and Forensic Investigation
- Module 17. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Module 18. Risk Anticipation with Risk Management
- Module 19. Threat Assessment with Attack Surface Analysis
- Module 20. Threat Prediction with Cyber Threat Intelligence
Prerequisites:
- Basic network and host operations knowledge
- Experience commensurate with one to five years of network, host, or application administration
- TN-325:Security+ or equivalent
Courses to follow:
- TN-555: Certified Ethical Hacker v10 (CEH)
- TN-575: Open Source Network Security Monitoring
- TN-979: Intrusion Analyst Course
Target Audience:
Network Administrators, Network Security Administrators, Network Security Engineer, Network Defense Technicians, Network Analyst, Security Analyst, Security Operator, and anyone involved in network operations
About us:
TechNow has taught security courses for almost 30 years, before most certifications existed and has successfully moved students through certification programs associated with IAPP, SANS, EC-Council and ISC2. Our instructor maintains over a dozen security certifications and has been the director of a company with internationals sales in security training, consulting, and compliance.
Tech Now, Inc. is an accredited Training Center with Ec-Council.
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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
Attendees to this seminar, Windows Security Automation and Threat Hunting with PowerShell, will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.[/wr_text][/wr_column][/wr_row]
Course Overview:
TN-813: Certified in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (CGRC) course is for the (ISC)²® Certified in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (CGRC) credential previously known as Certified Authorization Professional (CAP). This course walks the student through the Risk Management Framework following practices the NIST pubs. CGRC is an objective measure of the knowledge, skills and abilities required for personnel involved in the process of certifying and accrediting security of information systems. Specifically, this credential applies to those responsible for formalizing processes used to assess risk and establish security requirements. Their decisions will ensure that information systems possess security commensurate with the level of exposure to potential risk, as well as damage to assets or individuals.The CGRC credential is appropriate for civilian, state and local governments in the U.S., as well as commercial markets. CGRC certification applies to job functions such as authorization officials, system owners, information owners, information system security officers, and certifiers. CGRC is crucial to the Management staff.
This course is the “why” of the entire security field. It provides a logical way of allocating resources where there is greatest risk and why we make the decisions we make in the field of security. It is TechNow’s view that of all the security courses we have seen, this course genuinely puts the “big picture” of security in front of the students. Students actually come to an understanding of truly what is critical to security of an enterprise versus a bunch of nuts and bolts of security.
TechNow’s CGRC course covers all of the (ISC)²® CGRC 7 Knowledge domains:
- Security and Privacy Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance Program
- Scope of the System
- Selection and Approval of Framework, Security, and Privacy Controls
- Implementation of Security and Privacy Controls
- Assessment/ Audit of Security and Privacy Controls
- System Compliance
- Compliance Maintenance
RMF Related Steps
- Prepare – Process Initiation
- Categorize Information Systems
- Establish the Security Control Baseline
- Apply Security Controls
- Assess Security Controls
- Authorize Information System
- Monitor Security Controls
TechNow’s CGRC Instructors have extensive knowledge and experience in the field, and have been working with organizations to build assessor teams for over 20 years.
Attendees to TN-813: Certified in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (CGRC) will receive TechNow authorized training materials, including access to the documentation of the CGRC Exam domains, and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
| Date/Time | Event |
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09/08/2026 - 09/11/2026 08:00 -16:00 |
TN-813: Certified in Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX |
Duration: 3 Days
Course Objectives:
- Initiate the Preparation Phase
- Perform Execution Phase
- Perform Maintenance Phase
- Understand the Purpose of Security Authorization
Prerequisites:
- IT Security
- Information Assurance
- Information Risk Management certification and systems administration
- 1-2 years of general experience technical experience
- 2 years of general systems experience
- 1-2 years of Database/Systems Development/Network Experience
- Information Security Policy Experience
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Course Overview: PA-212: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Configure Extended Features (EDU-205) Training Class is a two-day course that teaches students to configure and manage the entire line of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. Students also will be instructed on the basics of implementing and managing GlobalProtect™ and active/ active high availability. Students will gain an in-depth knowledge of how to optimize their visibility and control of applications, users, and content. This course prepares the student for Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE). 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 three day course PA-243: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Debug and Troubleshoot (EDU-311). 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-212: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Configure Extended Features (EDU-205) Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
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Duration: 2 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. Students also will be instructed on the basics of implementing and managing GlobalProtect™ and active/ active high availability. Students will gain an in-depth knowledge of how to optimize their visibility and control of applications, users, and content.
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This course is in no way associated with Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
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