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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]

    TN-965 Windows Security Automation with Powershell

    Course Overview:

    PowerShell is made for Security Operations (SecOps) automation on Windows. SecOps requires automation in order to scale out security changes and monitoring beyond a handful of hosts. For example, when a vulnerability must be remediated but there is no patch for it yet, automation is needed to quickly and consistently enact the changes necessary. PowerShell “remoting” is encrypted remote command execution of PowerShell scripts in a way that can scale to thousands of endpoints and servers.

    Imagine being able to hunt for indicators of compromise across thousands of machines with just a few lines of PowerShell code. Or imagine having the local Administrator account password reset every night on thousands of endpoints in a secure way, and being able to retrieve that password securely too.

    We will show you to do these tasks and more. Transcription logging for forensics, strong encryption code signing, application whitelisting of scripts, IPSec port control, and Just Enough Admin (JEA).

    As more and more of our systems are moved up to the cloud, PowerShell will become even more important. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Hyper-V and VMware already support PowerShell administration for many tasks.

    Attendees to TN-965: Windows Security Automation with PowerShell will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Date/Locations:

    Date/Time Event
    11/03/2025 - 11/07/2025
    08:00 -16:00     		TN-965 Windows Security Automation with Powershell
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

    Duration: 5 days

    Intended Audience
    This course is intended for IT Professionals already experienced in general Windows Server and Windows Client administration or already experienced in administering and supporting Application servers and services including applications like Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL. It is broadly intended for students who want to use Windows PowerShell to automate administrative tasks from the command line, using any Microsoft or independent software vendor (ISV) product that supports Windows PowerShell manageability.

    Course Objectives:

    PowerShell Overview and Tips

      • Getting started running commands
      • 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.
      • Customizing your profile script

    What Can We Do With PowerShell

      • PowerShell remote command execution
      • Fan-out remoting and security
      • File copy via PowerShell remoting
      • Capturing the output of commands
      • Parsing text files and logs with regex patterns
      • Searching remote event logs faster with XPath
      • Mounting the registry as a drive
      • Exporting data to CSV, HTML and JSON files
      • Parsing and mining nmap port scanner XML output
      • Running scripts as scheduled jobs
      • Pushing out scripts through Group Policy
      • Importing modules and dot-sourcing functions
      • http://www.PowerShellGallery.com

    Write your own scripts

      • Writing your own functions
      • Passing arguments into your scripts
      • Function parameters and returning output
      • Flow control: if-then, do-while, foreach, switch
      • The .NET Framework class library: a playground
      • How to pipe data in/out of your scripts

    Continuous Secure Configuration Enforcement

      • How to use Group Policy and PowerShell together
      • Automate with INF security templates
      • How to customize INF templates
      • Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM)
      • SECEDIT.EXE scripting
      • Building an in-house security repository for SecOps/DevOps
      • NSA’s Secure Host Baseline GPOs

    Group Policy Precision Targeting

      • Managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) with PowerShell
      • LSDOU, Block Inheritance, Enforced GPOs
      • Group Policy permissions for targeting changes
      • ADMX templates for mass registry editing
      • Deploying PowerShell startup and logon scripts
      • WMI item-level targeting of GPO preferences
      • GPO scheduled tasks to run PowerShell scripts
      • Remote command execution via GPO (not remoting)
      • Empowering the Hunt Team to fight back!

    Server Hardening for SecOps/DevOps

      • Server Manager scripting with PowerShell
      • Adding and removing roles and feature
      • Remotely inventory roles, features, and apps
      • Why Server Nano or Server Core
      • Running PowerShell automatically after service failure
      • Service account identities, passwords, and risks
      • Tools to reset service account passwords securely

    PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

      • DSC is Configuration Management built in for free
      • Using DSC for continuous reinforcement of settings
      • Writing your own DSC configuration scripts
      • Free DSC resource modules: www.PowerShellGallery.com
      • How to push DSC configurations to many targets
      • DSC background job processing in push mode
      • Examples: sync files, install roles, manage groups
      • Auditing a remote target against a DSC MOF template
      • “ApplyAndAutoCorrect” mode for continuous enforcement

    PowerShell Just Enough Admin (JEA)

      • JEA is Windows sudo, like on Linux
      • JEA is Windows setuid root, like on Linux
      • Restricting commands and arguments
      • Verbose transcription logging
      • How to set up and configure JEA
      • Privilege Access Workstations (PAWs)

    PowerShell and WMI

      • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service
      • What is WMI and why do hackers abuse it so much?
      • Using PowerShell to query WMI CIM classes
      • WMI authentication and traffic encryption
      • Inventory operating system versions and installed software
      • WMI remote command execution versus PowerShell remoting
      • PowerShell security best practices
      • PowerShell transcription logging to catch hackers

    Prerequisites:

    • Previous Windows Server and Windows Client management knowledge and hands on experience.
      Experience installing and configuring Windows Server into existing enterprise environments, or as standalone installations.
    • Knowledge and experience of network adapter configuration, basic Active Directory user administration, and basic disk configuration.
    • Knowledge and hands on experience specifically with Windows Server 2012/Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8/Windows 8.1 would be of benefit but is not essential.

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    TN-205: A+ Skills Class

    Course Overview:

    TN-205: A+ Skills Class provides students with the skills, knowledge and understanding that will enable them to install, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot and repair personal computer systems.  The A+ curriculum is excellent preparation for almost any computer related career or position.  This course lays the foundation for further study in networking and programming.  Designed for the new computer professional who has support knowledge of PC hardware, but needs to expand upon that knowledge.

    Attendees to the TN-205: A+ Skills Class will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Please Note:  This course is designed with a focus on skills and is not a preparation course for certification.

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 5 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Identifying, Adding & Removing System Components
    • Installation, Configuring & System Optimization
    • Diagnosing & Troubleshooting Problems
    • Power Protection & Safety Procedures
    • Motherboards, Processors & Memory
    • Printers
    • Basic Networking
    • Operating System Fundamentals
    • Installation, Configuration & Upgrade
    • Diagnosing & Troubleshooting
    • Networks

    Prerequisites:

    • None

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    TN-5320: Microsoft Modern Desktop Administrator

     

     

     

     

    Course Overview:

    Learn how a Modern Desktop Administrators deploys, configures, secures, manage, and monitors devices and client applications in an enterprise environment. This is a hands-on, instructor led Bootcamp focusing on the real world responsibilities of a Modern Desktop Administrator and covering the information needed for the certification exams, which are administered while attending.

    If you’ve passed Exam 70-698: Configuring Windows 10 (retired March 31, 2019) you only need to take MD-101 to earn this new certification.

    This certification is one of the workload administrator certification required for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert certification.

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 10 Days

    Course Content:

      • Module 01. Installing Windows
      • Module 02. Updating Windows
      • Module 03. Post-Installation Configuration and Personalization
      • Module 04. Configuring Peripherals and Drivers
      • Module 05. Configuring Networks
      • Module 06. Configuring Storage
      • Module 07. Managing Apps in Windows 10
      • Module 08. Configuring Authorization & Authentication
      • Module 09. Configuring Data Access and Usage
      • Module 10. Configuring Advanced Management Tools
      • Module 11. Supporting the Windows 10 Environment
      • Module 12. Troubleshooting the Windows OS
      • Module 13. Troubleshooting Files & Applications
      • Module 14. Troubleshooting Hardware and Drivers
      • Module 15. Planning an Operating System Deployment Strategy
      • Module 16. Implementing Windows 10
      • Module 17. Managing Updates for Windows 10
      • Module 18. Device Enrollment
      • Module 19. Configuring Profiles
      • Module 20. Application Management
      • Module 21. Managing Authentication in Azure AD
      • Module 22. Managing Devices and Device Policies
      • Module 23. Managing Security

     

    Prerequisites:

        • Microsoft 365 Certified Fundamentals (M-MS900)

    Target Audience:

    IT professionals who perform installation, configuration, general local management and maintenance of Windows 10 core services. Candidates may also be familiar with enterprise scenarios and cloud-integrated services.

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    TN-813: Certified in Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC)

     

    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
    09/08/2025 - 09/11/2025
    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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