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Course Overview: PA-242: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Manage Cyberthreats (EDU-231) Training Class is a two-day course that teaches students strategies in defense against cyberthreats. Successful completion of this course enables administrators to better understand the threat landscape. 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-242: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Manaage Cyberthreats (EDU-231) Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 2 days
Course Objectives: Students attending this training course will gain an understanding of cyberthreats and their characteristics. Students will learn how to manage cyberthreats using security policies, profiles, and signatures to protect their network against emerging threats.
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Prerequisites:
- Students must complete the PA-213: Install, Configure, and Manage course
- Understanding of network concepts, including routing, switching, and IP addressing
- In-depth knowledge of port-based security and security technologies such as IPS, proxy, and content filtering
This course is in no way associated with Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
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CompTIA SecAI+ is the first certification in CompTIA’s expansion series, designed to help you secure, govern and responsibly integrate artificial intelligence into your cybersecurity operations. You’ll build the skills to defend AI systems, meet global compliance expectations and use AI to enhance threat detection, automation and innovation—so you can strengthen your expertise and help keep your organization’s systems and data secure.
SecAI+ helps you build practical AI security and automation skills on top of your existing expertise, so you can secure AI deployments, use AI‑assisted security tools with confidence, and stay ready for the next step in your cybersecurity career.
Course Objectives:
- Apply AI concepts to strengthen your organization’s cybersecurity posture
- Secure AI systems using advanced controls and protections to safeguard data, models, and infrastructure
- Leverage AI technologies to automate workflows, accelerate incident response, and scale security operations
- Navigate global GRC frameworks to ensure ethical and compliant AI adoption across industries
- Defend against AI-driven threats like adversarial attacks, automated malware, and malicious use of generative AI
- Integrate AI securely into DevSecOps pipelines and enterprise security strategies.
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Prerequisites: Recommended experience: 3–4 years in IT and 2+ years hands-on cybersecurity; Security+, CySA+, PenTest+, or equivalent recommended
SecAI+ (V1) exam objectives summary
Basic AI concepts related to cybersecurity (17%)
- Explain core AI principles and terminology: Machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and automation.
- Identify AI applications in security: Use cases for AI in threat detection, defense, and security operations.
- Recognize AI-driven threats: Automated phishing, polymorphic malware, adversarial machine learning, and malicious use of generative AI.
Securing AI systems (40%)
- Implement security controls: Protect AI systems, data, and models using robust technical safeguards.
- Secure AI deployment environments: Apply best practices across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures.
- Mitigate adversarial risks: Defend against attacks targeting AI models, data pipelines, and inference layers.
AI-assisted security (24%)
- Enhance detection and response: Use AI-driven tools to identify anomalies, detect threats, and accelerate incident remediation.
- Automate security workflows: Integrate AI for event triage, alert correlation, and response orchestration.
- Apply AI techniques in operations: Incorporate AI into threat modeling, behavior analysis, and continuous monitoring.
AI governance, risk, and compliance (19%)
- Understand regulatory frameworks: Identify global governance requirements and their implications for AI adoption.
- Integrate GRC into AI projects: Incorporate governance, risk management, and compliance practices throughout the AI lifecycle.
- Ensure responsible AI use: Apply ethical guidelines, legal standards, and industry frameworks such as GDPR and NIST AI RMF.
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:
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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PP-244: CIPM + CIPP/E 4 Day GDPR Ready
Course Overview:
A combined course of CIPM + CIPP/E. Achieving a CIPM credential shows that you have a comprehensive knowledge of how data protection programs should work across an organization. Combine with a CIPP/E credential and prove that you not only can manage a data protection program, but you understand the regulations that govern them.
With a CIPM and CIPP/E combined you’ll be uniquely equipped to fulfill the DPO requirements of the GDPR. The CIPP/E relates to the knowledge a DPO must have concerning the European legal framework of the legislation, and the CIPM provides theoretical aspects necessary to lead an organization’s data protection policy.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect in 2018. Among its mandates is the requirement to appoint a knowledgeable Data Protection Officer (DPO) tasked with monitoring compliance, managing internal data protection activities, training data processing staff, conducting internal audits and more. There’s a lot to know, there’s a lot at stake and there’s a lot of opportunity for data protection professionals with the right training and education.
What’s Included:
- Authorized courseware
- 2 Exam vouchers
- IAPP membership
**GDPR Regulation Mandated May 25, 2018**
Course Objectives:
See individual courses for details: PP-212: CIPP/E Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe and GDPR Compliance
See individual courses for details: PP-222 CIPM Certified Information Privacy Manager and GDPR Compliance
Attendees to PP-244: CIPM + CIPP/E 4 Day GDPR Ready will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction, and certification test vouchers and certificate of course completion.
TechNow is a International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Partner, and utilizes official curriculum from International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
TechNow has taught security courses for over 20 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 international sales and compliance.
Dates/Locations:
Duration: 4 Days
Course Content:
- See individual courses for details: PP-212: CIPP/E Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe and GDPR Compliance
- See individual courses for details: PP-222 CIPM Certified Information Privacy Manager and GDPR Compliance
Prerequisites: None
Target Audience:
Data Protection Officers, Data Protection Managers, Auditors, Data Protection Lawyers, Records Managers, Information Officers, Legal Compliance Officers, Human Resource Officers, Security Manager, Information Manager, Anyone who uses processes and maintains personal data
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