Course Overview:

CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ is for both IT and non-technical professionals who require the essential business acumen needed to make informed cloud service decisions.  Cloud Essentials is a vendor-neutral credential designed to validate the candidate has an understanding of basic terms and definitions of cloud computing along with the different processes involved in the successful adoption of cloud computing and its implications for organizations’ use.

TechNow is a CompTIA partner and uses official CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ curriculum.

Attendees to CT-213: Cloud Essentials+ will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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Course Duration: 3 days

Course Objectives:

  • Domain 1 : Cloud Concepts
    • Understand cloud principles
    • Identify cloud networking concepts & storage techniques
    • Understand cloud design aspects
  • Domain 2: Business Principles of Cloud Environments
    • Identify and employ appropriate cloud assessments like feasibility studies, benchmarking, or gap analysis
    • Highlight key business aspects of cloud vendor relation adoption, and comprehend cloud migration approaches
  • Domain 3: Management and Technical Operations
    • Explain aspects of operating within the cloud, such as data management or optimization
    • Understand the role of DevOps in cloud environments, like API integration or provisioning
  • Domain 4: Governance, Risk, Compliance and Security for the Cloud
    • Understand risk management and response concepts related to cloud services and identify the importance and impacts of compliance in the cloud, such as regulatory concerns or international standards.

 

Course Prerequisites:

  • CompTIA recommends that a candidate have at least 6 months of experience in an IT environment, with direct involvement in IT-related tasks responsibilities and/or decision making.

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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

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TechNow has been involved in enterprise client server architectures since 1990.  TechNow has delivered  national and international implementations for Valero, Wholefoods, Quest, USAA, Golfsmith, AMD, Motorola, and many other fortune 1000 corporations, 

TechNow's training program has followed the evolution of enterprise computing into virtualization and cloud computing. With a focus on security, TechNow can present the ramifications of many centralized strategies.  All courses utilize enterprise instructors with experience and can discuss the detail of implementation and the integration into an existing infrastructure.

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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:

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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

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TechNow has been involved in enterprise security architectures and education since 1990.  TechNow’s training program has followed the evolution of enterprise computing into security architectures.  Palo Alto Networks represents the current state of security product evolution.  With next generation firewall technology, the reunification of your security architecture is possible.  TechNow can present the ramifications of many centralized strategies.  All courses utilize enterprise security professionals with experience as instructors and can discuss the detail of implementation and the integration into an existing infrastructure.
Palo Alto Networks Certifications:  Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE) take EDU-201; Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) take  EDU-201 + EDU-205 + EDU-221
TechNow is a mobile Pearson VUE Authorized Testing Center.  Palo Alto courses can be delivered on the customer site, with certificadtion testing on the last day of the course.  Take the course and get certfied, without  logistical effort of getting students to a training facility and the hassle of scheduling testing.
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