L-395: Accelerated Linux Administration and Utilities

Course Overview:

This course is extremely fast paced and for students that have already had UNIX or Linux training, or have not worked with Linux in several months or years. This is NOT a course for students new to Linux and assumes the student requires a refresher before progressing through high end security courses that require dexterity on Linux. RedHat and Ubuntu, VMware Virtual Machines, and BackTrack are used for the instruction of this course. The student will acquire the skills to easily navigate the advanced VMware training environment and will be able to create scripts to manipulate and manage Linux. The ulimate goals of the skills of this course is to provide the student the ability to automate through scripting BackTrack tools for offensive security, forensics, and defense.

Attendees to L-395: Accelerated Linux Administration and Utilities will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

Day 1 and 2: Unix Review and Unix Utilities

Linux File System Archictecure and In-Depth discussion of Hard and Soft Links
Linux File, Directory, and Permissions Management
Linux archives using tar and zip
Interacting with BASH
Review of Common Linux commands
Sorting files by line or field
Regular Expressions (meta character) with grep commands to locate specific lines in files
Grep, egrep extended metacharacters, combinations-lab advanced combinations- lab Sed
Basic commands- Lab, Advanced commands- Lab, Advanced scripting -Lab
Miscellaneous commands Tr, sort, cut, past, pr -Lab
Performing non-interactive editing tasks with the sed command
Writing simple sed scripts to perform complex editing tasks
Using awk variables & arrays to sort data
Employing awk programs to manipulate numeric & textual data
Performing formatted printing in awk
Writing simple awk programs to write reports from data files
Using built-in awk functions & defining new functions
Write awk programs that make decisions based on numeric or string comparisons (branches & loops)

Day 3 – Intro to Programming / Shell Scripting

Shell Review
Shell Interpretation of Quotes & Backslash
The Bash Shell
Shell's combined with UNIX utilities
Programming Basics
Data Constructs
Programming Looping
Your Environment
More on Parameters

Day 4 and 5 – Security Fundamentals, Linux Administration

System Configuration / Kernel overview
System Maintenance / Disk and file admin
Using utilities for process control, locating files & automating maintenance tasks
System Startup / Boot Process – LILO & GRUB Configuration
Managing the Linux file system
Customization of setup files
Run Levels
Network Services / Configuration
User Management Monitoring, accessing & restricting root system access
Administration Tools
Process Control
Client side components of NFS, Samba, NTP, NIS
Server side components such as DHCP, Samba, NIS, LDAP, inet, telnet, ftp, DNS, etc.

Prerequisites:

Prior UNIX/Linux experience or training

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TN-939: Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling Course

Course Overview:

A skills focus enables the student to better absorb the subject matter and perform successfully on the exam. This is not death by power point. The course is aligned with information assurance operators and executing hands-on labs. Lecture and labs walk the student through the knowledge required to truly understand the mechanics of the attacks and the effectiveness. Students then gain network experience and use sniffing to help exemplify the benefit of learning wired and wireless security configurations. The course concludes with exercising real attack strategies to demonstrate the techniques acquired throughout the course.

Attendees to TN-939: Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 9 days

Course Objectives:

Backdoors & Trojan Horses
Buffer Overflows
Covering Tracks: Networks
Covering Tracks: Systems
Denial of Service Attacks
Exploiting Systems Using Netcat
Format String Attacks
Incident Handling Overview and Preparation
Incident Handling Phase 2: Identification
Incident Handling Phase 3: Containment
Incident Handling: Recovering and Improving Capabilities
IP Address Spoofing
Network Sniffing
Password Attacks
Reconnaissance
Rootkits
Scanning: Host Discovery
Scanning: Network and Application Vulnerability scanning and tools
Scanning: Network Devices (Firewall rules determination, fragmentation, and IDS/IPS evasion)
Scanning: Service Discovery
Session Hijacking, Tools and Defenses
Types of Incidents
Virtual Machine Attacks
Web Application Attacks
Worms, Bots & Bot-Nets

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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Instructor comments: Both instructors Mr. Askey and Mr. Hackney, were very good. the open learning environment was extremely productive and I felt we all learned far more that we ever would out of a structured rote memorization course.

User: natebonds

Instructor comments: Both Mr. Askey and Hackney were extremely knowledgeable. They were also extremely interested in helping each student learn. I was particularly impressed with the way they tailored the course to optimize our time since we weren't testing. I feel like I know much much more than I did when the class started.

Facilities comments: The facilities were fine. I would have preferred it be closer to Lackland.

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PP-222: CIPM Certified Information Privacy Manager and GDPR Compliance

Course Overview:

Every organization has data protection needs. Every day, we access, share and manage data across companies, continents and the globe. Knowing how to implement a privacy program is an invaluable sill that will help you protect your organization’s data- and take your career to the next level. Our Principles of Privacy Program Management training is the premier course on implementing a privacy program framework, managing the privacy program operational lifecycle and structuring a privacy team. With a CIPM and CIPP/E combined you’ll be uniquely equipped to fulfill the DPO requirements of the GDPR. Here is our CIPM + CIPP/E 4 Day GDPR Ready

What’s Included:

Authorized courseware
Exam voucher
IAPP membership

**GDPR Regulation Mandated May 25, 2018**

Course Objectives:

Principles of Privacy Program Management is the how-to training on implementing a privacy program framework, managing the privacy program operational lifecycle and structuring a knowledgeable, high-performing privacy team. Those taking this course will learn the skills to manage privacy in an organization through process and technology-regardless of jurisdiction or industry. The Principles of Privacy Program Management training is based on the body of knowledge for the IAPP’s ANSI accredited Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) certification program.

Attendees to PP-222: CIPM Certified Information Privacy Manager and GDPR Compliance will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction, and certification test voucher 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 internationals sales and compliance.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 2 Days

Course Content:

Module 1: Introduction to Privacy Program Management
Module 2: Privacy Governance
Module 3: Applicable Laws and Regulations
Module 4: Data Assessments
Module 5: Policies
Module 6: Data Subjects’ Rights
Module 7: Training and Awareness
Module 8: Protecting Personal Information
Module 9: Data Breach Incident Plans
Module 10: Measuring, Monitoring and Auditing Program Performance

Prerequisites: None

Target Audience:

Data Protection Officers, Data Protection Managers, Auditors, Legal Compliance Officers, Security Manager, Information Managers, Anyone who uses processes and maintains personal data

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CompTIA

Increase your credibility, job security, and career opportunities by reaching your goal and getting certified! TechNow offers many CompTIA bootcamp style courses in which we administer an exam on the last day of class. We have a proven testing program that will get you the results you want!

AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Course Overview:

This two-day course will provide foundational level knowledge on cloud concepts; core Azure services; security, privacy, compliance, and trust; and Azure pricing and support.

NOTE: This course provides an Azure pass and time for you to participate in hands-on labs. The content for this course aligns to AZ-900 exam objective domain

TechNow has worked worldwide enterprise infrastructures for over 20 years and has developed demos and labs to exemplify the techniques required to demonstrate cloud technologies and to effectively manage security in the cloud environment

Attendees to AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

Date/Time	Event
09/03/2025 - 09/05/2025 08:00 -16:00	AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

Course Duration: 3 days

Course Outline:

Cloud Concepts
Core Azure Services
Security, Privacy, Compliance, And Trust
Azure Pricing and Support

Lab Objectives:

- Create a virtual machine
- Deploy Azure container instances
- Create a virtual network
- Create blob storage
- Create a SQL database
- Implement an Azure IoT Hub
- Implement Azure Functions
- Create a web app
- Create a VM with a Template
- Create a VM with PowerShell
- Create a VM with CLI
- Secure network traffic
- Implement Azure key vault
- Create an Azure Policy
- Manage access with RBAC
- Manage resource locks
- Implement resource tagging
- Exploring the Trust Center
- Use the Azure Pricing Calculator
- Use the Azure TCO Calculator
- Open a Support request
- Calculate composite SLAs
- Access Azure Preview features

Prerequisites :

- - There are no prerequisites for taking this course. Technical IT experience is not required however some general IT knowledge or experience would be beneficial.
  - This course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Azure.
  - This course primarily uses the Azure portal to create services and does not require scripting skills.
  - Students in this course will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications, such as Azure Administrator.
  - This course provides an Azure pass and optional lab environment.

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