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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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    Course Overview:

    TechNow’s CCSP Certification Preparation Seminar is an accelerated course designed to meet the high demands of the information security industry by preparing students for the industry standard Certified Cloud Security Professional exam.  The exam covers (ISC)²’s 6 Domains from the Common Body of Knowledge, which encompass the whole of cloud security.

    This course is an intense 5 day program.  TechNow has a proven training and certification track record that you can depend on.  CCSP test is 125 questions that typically require more comprehension than CISSP questions.   The instructor takes time to walk through scenarios that assume comprehensive knowledge of enterprise infrastructures.

    Attendees to CL-315: CCSP Certification Preparation Seminar will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    The 6 domains of the CCSP CBK:

    • Architectural Concepts & Design Requirements
    • Cloud Data Security
    • Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Security
    • Cloud Application Security
    • Operations
    • Legal & Compliance

    Duration: 5 days

    Audience:  Mid-level to advanced professionals involved with IT architecture, web and cloud security engineering, information security, governance, risk and compliance, and even IT auditing.   CCSPs will be responsible for cloud security architecture, design, operations, and/or service orchestration.

    DoD 8140:  Not Mandated

    Course Prerequisites:  IT professional with 5 years of experience, 3 years of security experience, and at least 1 year of cloud security experience.  GSEC, CISSP, CASP or equivalent experience in managing enterprise infrastructures.  CCSP test is 125 questions that typically require more comprehension than CISSP questions.  This course is for those who are already qualified at the enterprise level for IT infrastructures, have Cloud experience, and are looking for a Cloud Security certification.

    Course Objectives:

    Domain 1: Architectural Concepts and Design Requirements

    • Module 1: Understand cloud computing concepts
    • Module 2: Describe cloud reference architecture
    • Module 3: Understand security concepts relevant to cloud computing
    • Module 4: Understand design principles of secure cloud computing
    • Module 5: Identify trusted cloud services

    Domain 2: Cloud Data Security

    • Module 1: Understand Cloud Data Life Cycle
    • Module 2: Design and Implement Cloud Data Storage Architectures
    • Module 3: Understand and implement Data Discovery and Classification Technologies
    • Module 4: Design and Implement Relevant Jurisdictional Data Protection for Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
    • Module 5: Design and implement Data Rights Management
    • Module 6: Plan and Implement Data Retention, Deletion, and Archival policies
    • Module 7: Design and Implement Auditability, Traceability, and Accountability of Data Events

    Domain 3: Cloud Platform Infrastructure Security

    • Module 1: Comprehend Cloud Infrastructure Comp
    • Module 2: Analyze Risks Associated to Cloud Infrastructure
    • Module 3: Design and Plan Security Controls
    • Module 4: Plans Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Management

    Domain 4: Cloud Application Security

    • Module 1: Recognize Need for Training and Awareness in Application Security
    • Module 2: Understand Cloud Software Assurance and Validation
    • Module 3: Use Verified Secure Software
    • Module 4: Comprehend the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Process
    • Module 5: Apply the Secure Software Development Life Cycle
    • Module 6: Comprehend the Specifics of Cloud Application Architecture
    • Module 7: Design Appropriate Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions

    Domain 5: Operations

    • Module 1: Support the Planning Process for the Data Center Design
    • Module 2: Implement and Build Physical Infrastructure for Cloud Environment
    • Module 3: Run Physical Infrastructure for Cloud Environment
    • Module 4: Manage Physical Infrastructure for Cloud Environment
    • Module 5: Build Logical Infrastructure for Cloud Environment
    • Module 6: Run Logical Infrastructure for Cloud Environment
    • Module 7: Manage Logical Infrastructure for Cloud Environment
    • Module 8: Ensure Compliance with Regulations and Controls
    • Module 9: Conduct Risk Assessment to Logical and Physical Infrastructure
    • Module 10: Understand the Collection and Preservation of Digital Evidence
    • Module 11: Manage Communications with Relevant Parties

    Domain 6: Legal and Compliance

    • Module 1: Understand Legal Requirements and Unique Risks Within the Cloud Environment
    • Module 2: Understand Privacy Issues, Including Jurisdictional Variances
    • Module 3: Understand Audit Process, Methodologies, and Required Adaptions for a Cloud Environment
    • Module 4: Understand Implication of Cloud to Enterprise Risk Management
    • Module 5: Understand Outsourcing and Cloud Contract Design
    • Module 6: Execute Vendor Management

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    Course Overview:

    This course explores the VMware Infrastructure and related security, which consists of VMware ESX Server & VMware Virtual Center Server. We will look at both the design environments and operational processes of the VMware Infrastructure including security. This course provides IT architects with the insight needed to tackle tough issues in server virtualization such as virtual machine technologies, storage infrastructure, and designing clustered environments with security practices included. Extensive hands-on labs provide for a rich student experience.

    Hypervisors and their supporting environment require attention to security due to the aggregated risk of hosting multiple virtual servers. This course explores the security of virtualized environments. Student configure ESXi by learning to manage the security and risk between ESXi, virtual servers and security integration of ESXi to the physical network infrastructure including appropriate segregation from other sensitive networks and management networks. How to configure virtual networks when some hosts are dual or multi homed, but internally segregate between the two or more connected networks with different security levels. Appropriate integration of zero-clients and thin clients. Configuration of defensive measures on hosts, servers, hypervisors within the virtual environment and practices for those guarding it externally. Integration of Active Directory and other AAA/CIA related services relative to a virtualized environment.

    Students are also walked through DoD ESXi Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG). Introduction to the impact of Intel Trusted Execution Technology integrated with ESXi to create a trusted platform for virtual machines. Additionally the instructor walks the students through NIST Special Publication 800-125A: Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers, and NIST Special Publication 800-125B: Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection.

    Attendees to “VM-345: VMware Infrastructure Security: VMware Install, Configure, and Manage with Security Objectives” will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

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    Duration: 5 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Virtual Infrastructure Overview
    • ESX and ESXi Server Installation
    • Configuration of Networking, Scalability and Security
    • Storage
    • Install and Configure vCenter Server and Components
    • Creation, Deployment, Management, and Migration of Virtual Machines
    • Utilize vCenter Server for Resource Management
    • Utilize vCenter Server for Virtual Machine Access Control and User Managment
    • Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
    • Monitoring Your Environment
    • Data & Availability Protection Troubleshooting
    • Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches
    • Use vCenter Server to manage vMotion, HA, DRS and data protection.

     

    Course Overview:

    TN-542: Establishing a Security Operations Center (SOC) People, Processes, and Technologies is the big picture overview of a SOC, other courses provide a deep dive into the technologies that a SOC may utilize. This course addresses the internal workings of staff, skills required, required authorizations, internal agreements, and setting appropriate expectation levels of a SOC within budget constraints. A SOC is not a one size fits all, the instructor has decades of security experience and brings to the table opportunities to discuss what can work within constraints. Many organizations are coming to the realization that some level of a SOC is now required and to learn just what decisions need to be made: Out-sourced, In-sourced, budgets, capabilities and many more. Students leave with a worksheet of how to progress when they get back to their organization.

    TN-542: Establishing a Security Operations Center (SOC) People, Processes, and Technologies – Is a course that incorporates lecture, demos, and group exercises for standing up a Security Operations Center (SOC). Students learn strategies and resources required to deploy, build, and run Network Security Monitoring (NSM) and work roles and flows for a SOC. No network is bullet proof and when attackers access your network, this course will show you options and resources to build a security net to detect, contain, and control the attacker. Examples on what it takes to architect an NSM solution to identify sophisticated attackers and a response strategy. Properly implemented detection and response technologies is integral to incident response and provides the responders timely information and tools to react to the incident. Effective demonstrations are given of Open Source technologies that build up a SOC, but any software can be used and demonstrations are provided to demonstrate technology families not push a specific solution.

    TN-542: Establishing a Security Operations Center (SOC) People, Processes, and Technologies demonstrations utilize a cyber range that gives each student in-depth knowledge of monitoring live systems to include: Cisco, Windows, Linux, IoT, and Firewalls; and software and services to provide orchestrate Incident Response, Intelligence Analysis, and Hunt Operations.

    Attendees to TN-542: Establishing a Security Operations Center (SOC) People, Processes, and Technologies class will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 2 Days

    Course Objective:

      • To provide management an overview of what it takes to stand up a SOC.

    Prerequisites:

    • Students should have an understanding of the security field.

    Course Outline:

    • What threats does my organization care about?
    • What does a threat look like?
    • What does a threat look like?
    • How to present the SOC internally.
    • Communication with Stakeholders and Executives
    • Leveraging and integrating existing security measures
    • People
      • Establishing a skill matrix and work roles for SOC members
      • Establishing a training path
      • Personnel background requirementsProcesses
    • Processes
      • Alignment to standards: NIST, PCI, HIPAA, etc.
      • Risk related decision trees
      • Playbooks
      • Threat Intelligence Integration
    • Technology – Tool Suites to Support:
      • Ethical Hacking
      • Network Security Monitoring and SIEM
      • Forensics
      • Dashboards
      • Analysis and Hunting
      • Incident Management and Ticketing

     

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    CCFE Core Competencies

    • Procedures and Legal Issues
    • Computer Fundamentals
    • Partitioning Schemes
    • Data Recovery
    • Windows File Systems
    • Windows Artifacts
    • Report writing (Presentation of Finding)
    • Procedures and Legal issues
    1. Knowledge of search and subjection and rules for evidence as applicable to computer forensics.
    2. Ability to explain the on-scene action taken for evidence preservation.
    3. Ability to maintain and document an environment consolidating the computer forensics.
    • Computer Fundamentals
    1. Understand BIOS
    2. Computer hardware
    3. Understanding of numbering system (Binary, hexadecimal, bits, bytes).
    4. Knowledge of sectors, clusters, files.
    5. Understanding of logical and physical files.
    6. Understanding of logical and physical drives.
    • Partitioning schemes
    1. Identification of current partitioning schemes.
    2. Understanding of primary and extended partition.
    3. Knowledge of partitioning schemes and structures and system used by it.
    4. Knowledge of GUID and its application.
    • Windows file system
    1. Understanding of concepts of files.
    2. Understanding of FAT tables, root directory, subdirectory along with how they store data.
    3. Identification, examination, analyzation of NTFS master file table.
    4. Understanding of $MFT structure and how they store data.
    5. Understanding of Standard information, Filename, and data attributes.
    • Data Recovery
    1. Ability to validate forensic hardware, software, examination procedures.
    2. Email headers understanding.
    3. Ability to generate and validate forensically sterile media.
    4. Ability to generate and validate a forensic image of media.
    5. Understand hashing and hash sets.
    6. Understand file headers.
    7. Ability to extract file metadata from common file types.
    8. Understanding of file fragmentation.
    9. Ability to extract component files from compound files.
    10. Knowledge of encrypted files and strategies for recovery.
    11. Knowledge of Internet browser artifacts.
    12. Knowledge of search strategies for examining electronic
    • Windows Artifacts
    1. Understanding the purpose and structure of component files that create the windows registry.
    2. Identify and capability to extract the relevant data from the dead registry.
    3. Understand the importance of restore points and volume shadow copy services.
    4. Knowledge of the locations of common Windows artifacts.
    5. Ability to analyze recycle bin.
    6. Ability to analyze link files.
    7. Analyzing of logs
    8. Extract and view windows logs
    9. Ability to locate, mount and examine VHD files.
    10. Understand the Windows swap and hibernation files.
    • Report Writing (Presentation of findings)
    1. Ability to conclude things strongly based on examination observations.
    2. Able to report findings using industry standard technically accurate terminologies.
    3. Ability to explain the complex things in simple and easy terms so that non-technical people can understand clearly.
    4. Be able to consider legal boundaries when undertaking a forensic examination