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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-913: Cloud Security Fundamentals

     

    Course Overview:

    TechNow Cloud Security Fundamentals addresses the loss of hands-on control of system, application, and data security in the Cloud computing environment.  Security teams wrestle with the impact and liability of Cloud computing on an organization.  This course enables the security team to assist in contract language and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) when utilizing Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

    Compliance and auditing are introduced with strategies for control verification and audit analysis in the CSP environment.  Software as a Service (SaaS) to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and everything in between require a compliance strategy.  Students will go in-depth into the architecture and infrastructure fundamentals for private, public, and hybrid clouds.   Topics covered include: patch and configuration management, virtualization security, application security, and change management. Policy, risk assessment, and governance within cloud environments will be covered with recommendations for both internal policies and contract provisions to consider.

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

    Attendees to TN-913: Cloud Security Fundamentals will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Date/Locations:

    Date/Time Event
    02/09/2026 - 02/12/2026
    08:00 -16:00     		TN-913: Cloud Security Fundamentals
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
    05/26/2026 - 05/29/2026
    08:00 -16:00     		TN-913: Cloud Security Fundamentals
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
    09/08/2026 - 09/11/2026
    08:00 -16:00     		TN-913: Cloud Security Fundamentals
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
    12/07/2026 - 12/10/2026
    08:00 -16:00     		TN-913: Cloud Security Fundamentals
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

    Course Duration: 3 days

    Course Objectives:

    • Cloud computing introduction
    • Security challenges in the cloud
    • Infrastructure security in the cloud
    • Policy, risk, and governance for cloud computing
    • Compliance and legal considerations
    • Audit and assessment for the cloud
    • Data security in the cloud
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning (DR/BCP) in the cloud
    • Intrusion detection and incident response

    Course Prerequisites:

    • GSEC, CISSP, CASP or equivalent experience in managing enterprise infrastructures
    • Managing or administering at least one of UNIX, Windows, Databases, networking, or security

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    TN-535: Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE)

    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

    TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming

     

    Course Overview:

    The course teaches students to use the sort, grep, sed, & awk utilities within Unix. Systems administrators, Unix users, & programmers benefit from the course showing them how to use the command line applications of sort, grep, sed, & awk commands as well as using sed & awk scripts that develop the users skills with the full power of these utilities.

    Attendees to TN-223: Advanced Shell Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 3 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Sorting files by line or field
    • Regular Expressions (meta character) with grep commands to locate specific lines in files
    • 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)
    • Grep, egrep extended metacharacters, combinations-lab advanced combinations- lab Sed
    • Basic commands- Lab, Advanced commands- Lab, Advanced scripting -Lab
    • Miscellaneous commands Tr, sort, cut, paste, pr -Lab

    Prerequisites:

    • TN-125: Introduction to UNIX & Linux
    • TN 215: Shell Programming.
    • Students should have a basic knowledge of UNIX commands including rm, cp, man, cat, & mkdir. Navigating directory structure using commands such as ls, cp, & pwd. Creating and editing files with the vi editor or text editor. Use of basic programming constructs, & commands such as variables & loops & how to write a simple program in a programming language.

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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.

     

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    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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