L-245: Linux System Administration I

Course Overview:

In this course students will learn to install the Linux™ operating system, to administer users and software, to use vi, basic Linux security, process control, file system maintenance, backup and recovery, including some basic networking concepts. This course insures that students have the skills to configure all desktop and client side related activity.

Attendees to L-245: Linux System Administration I will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • Linux operating system installation
  • Hardware Issues
  • LILO & GRUB Configuration
  • Managing the Linux file system
  • Boot Process
  • Customization of setup files
  • System Startup
  • Run Levels
  • Network Services
  • User Management
  • Changing Passwords
  • Monitoring, accessing & restricting root system access
  • Administration Tools
  • Disk Management
  • Quotas
  • Process Control
  • Installing & removing software & patches
  • Network Configuration
  • Client side components of NFS, Samba, NTP, NIS
  • Printing
  • Backup and Recovery
  • Using utilities for process control, locating files & automating maintenance tasks

Prerequisites:

  • Students should have an understanding of all basic UNIX commands as well as variable substitution, wild card expansion, command pipes, permissions, the grep  and find commands.
  • These prerequisites can be met through completion of TN-125: Introduction to UNIX & Linux and six month’s experience with Linux.

 

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L-295: Linux System Administration II

Course Overview:

In this course students will learn to configure the Linux kernel, install & configure modules, to install and configure non-default devices and automate installation with Kickstart. Students also utilize skills developed in L-245 to expand on file system configuration with spanning devices and RAID. This is the foremost server side Linux course in the industry covering all server side components such as DHCP, Samba, NIS, LDAP, inet, telnet ftp, dns, etc.  Expanding on security introduced in L-245: Linux System Administration I, TCP wrappers, firewalling with IP filters, SQUID, & ssh are covered.

Attendees to L-295: Linux System Administration II will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • Custom installation of a Linux server
  • Linux device naming conventions & the boot process
  • Adding peripheral devices
  • Reconfiguring the kernel
  • Disk partitioning & formatting
  • Changing system run levels
  • Adding startup files for additional services
  • Adding & removing software packages
  • Disk & file system Administration
  • Terminals & modem configuration
  • Configuring NFS to support the client/server environment
  • Use the automounter
  • Server side components such as DHCP, Samba, NIS, LDAP, inet, telnet, ftp, DNS, etc.
  • Troubleshooting techniques
  • Advanced Linux installation

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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

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    TN-825: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Seminar

    Course Overview:

    The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification program is developed specifically for experienced information security managers & those who have information security management responsibilities. The CISM certification is for the individual who manages, designs, oversees and/or assesses an enterprise’s information security (IS). The CISM certification promotes international practices & provides executive management with assurance that those earning the designation have the required experience & knowledge to provide effective security management & consulting services. Individuals earning the CISM certification become part of an elite peer network, attaining a one-of-a-kind credential. The CISM job practice also defines a global job description for the information security manager & a method to measure existing staff or compare prospective new hires.

    This course is designed to assist in your exam preparation for the CISM exam.

    Attendees to TN-825: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Seminar will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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    Date/Time Event
    02/23/2026 - 02/27/2026
    08:00 -16:00     		TN-825: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Seminar
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
    08/17/2026 - 08/21/2026
    08:00 -16:00     		TN-825: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Seminar
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
    11/16/2026 - 11/20/2026
    08:00 -16:00     		TN-825: Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Seminar
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

    Duration: 5 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Information Security Governance (24%)
    • Establish and/or maintain an information security governance framework and supporting processes to ensure that the information security strategy is aligned with organizational goals and objectives
    • Information Risk Management (30%)
    • Manage information risk to an acceptable level based on risk appetite to meet organizational goals and objectives
    • Information Security Program Development and Management (27%)
    • Develop and maintain an information security program that identifies, manages and protects the organization’s assets while aligning to information security strategy and business goals, thereby supporting an effective security posture
    • Information Security Incident Management (19%)
    • Plan, establish and manage the capability to detect, investigate, respond to and recover from information security incidents to minimize business impact

    Prerequisites:

    A minimum of five years of information security work experience, with a minimum of three years of information security management work experience in three or more of the job practice analysis areas.

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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