Course Overview: PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack Training Class is a five-day course that teaches students to configure and manage the entire line of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. This course combines PA-213 and PA-212 and adds a half day introduction to Panorama and Troubleshooting.  Through hands-on training, students learn high end skills of how to integrate Palo Alto next-generation firewalls into their network infrastructure.  This is not a virtualized theoretical course.  This is hands-on, real world instruction, directly relevant to the DoD and Commercial implementations of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.

Each student is issued a physical Palo Alto firewall and a Cisco layer 3 switch at their desk.  Real hardware per student for real experience and real skill development.  TechNow provides a very comprehensive client infrastructure that includes Windows, Linux, and multiple packet sniffer agents.

This course sets up the foundation for the two day course PA-232: Palo Alto Networks Panorama Manage Multiple Firewalls. The instructor for this course has been a lead in Unix kernel development to implement firewall and intrusion detection technologies.  Additionally, the instructor has taught several security appliance products and carries several SANS, Cisco, Unix, and Windows certifications. Attendees to the PA-215:  Palo Alto Firewall Essentials FastTrack Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

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Duration 5 days

Course Objectives:   Students attending this foundational-level training course will gain an in-depth knowledge of how to configure and manage their Palo Alto Networks firewall, including hands-on experience in configuring the security, networking, threat prevention, logging, and reporting features of the Palo Alto Networks Operating System (PAN-OS).  Additionally Panorama and Troubleshooting are addressed.

  • Day 1
    • Module 0 – Introduction & Overview
    • Module 1 – Administration & Management
      • Configuration Management
      • PAN-OS & Software Updates
      • Service Route Configuration
      • Log Forwarding
      • GUI, CLI, and API
    • Module 2 – Interface Configuration
      • L2 & L3
      • Vwire
      • Tap
      • Interface Management in Security Zones
      • VLANs
      • QoS
  • Day 2
    • Module 3 – Layer 3 Configuration
      • L3 Configuration and DHCP
      • NAT
      • DNS Proxy
      • Policy Based Forwarding in
      • Introduction to IPv6
    • Module 4 – App-ID
      • App-ID Process
      • Policy Administration
    • Module 5 – Content-ID
      • Antivirus
      • Anti-spyware
      • Vulnerability
      • URL Filtering
      • File Blocking and Wildfire
      • Data Filtering
      • DoS Protection
      • Botnet
  • Day 3
    • Module 6 – VM Firewall
      • Downlaod VM Template
      • Configure ESXi
      • Configure VM
    • Module 7 – Decryption
      • SSL Inbound and Outbound
    • Module 8 – Custom Signatures
      • Defining New Application Signatures
      • Application Override
      • Custom Threat ID
  • Day 4
    • Module 9 – User-ID
      • User-ID Agent
      • Terminal Server Agent
      • XML API
      • Captive Portal
    • Module 10 – VPN and GlobalProtect
      • Psec Tunnels
      • GlobalProtect
      • Agent
      • Portal
      • Gateway
      • HIP
  • Day 5
    • Module 11 – High Availability
      • Active/Passive
      • Active/Active
    • Module 12 – Panorama
      • Device Groups & Objects
      • Shared Policy
      • Configuration Management
      • Reporting

Prerequisites:

This course is in no way associated with Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

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Course Overview:

Everyday, we access, share, manage and transfer data across companies, continents and the globe. Knowing the ins and outs of data protection requirements gives you the information you need to stay ahead of breaches-and help advance your career. CIPP/E training gives you comprehensive GDPR knowledge, perspective and understanding to ensure compliance and data protection success in Europe. With a CIPP/E and CIPM certification 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 Data Protection in Europe covers the essential pan-European and national data protection laws, as well as industry-standard best practices for corporate compliance with these laws. Those taking this course will gain an understanding of the European model for privacy enforcement, key privacy terminology and practical concepts concerning the protection of personal data and trans-border data flows.
The training is based on the body of knowledge for the IAPP’s ANSI accredited Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) certification program.

Attendees to PP-212: CIPP/E Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe 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:

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Duration: 2 Days

Course Content:

  • Module 1: Data Protection Laws
  • Module 2: Personal Data
  • Module 3: Controllers and Processors
  • Module 4: Processing Personal Data
  • Module 5: Information Provision
  • Module 6: Data Subjects’ Rights
  • Module 7: Security of Processing
  • Module 8: Accountability
  • Module 9: International Data Transfers
  • Module 10: Supervisions and Enforcement
  • Module 11: Compliance.

 

Prerequisites: None

Target Audience:

Data Protection Officers, Data Protection Lawyers, Records Managers, Information Officers, Compliance Officers, Human Resource Officers, Anyone who uses processes and maintains personal data

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Course Overview:

This FastTrack course combines combines two VMware courses (VMware Cloud Essentials and vCloud Architecting the VMware Cloud) into a single week course that adds extra exercises and labs to exemplify the techniques presented.  The course begins with how to adopt, operate, and govern the cloud. The course enables participants to successfully complete the associated CompTIA Cloud Essentials™ Exam to become a Cloud Essentials™ Professional(CEP). This course also covers the subject matter specified by the VCP-Cloud certification.

This course is designed to guide students through the decision points and policy choices available for designing and implementing a VMware vCloud environment. Detailed labs and exercises for VMware vSphere™, VMware vCloud Director, VMware vCenter™ Chargeback, and the VMware® vShield Edge capability that is included with vCloud Director. A comprehensive VMware cloud design is demonstrated and discussed.

Attendees to VM-335:  VMware Cloud Essentials and vCloud – Architecting the VMware Cloud FastTrack will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

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Course Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • Understand the common terms and definitions of cloud computing.
  • Understand the business benefits and business considerations of cloud computing.
  • Understand cloud computing from a technical perspective and recognize the various techniques, methods, challenges, and types of clouds.
  • Understand the impact and changes of cloud computing on IT service management.
  • Explain typical steps that lead to the successful adoption of cloud computing and understand the implications for organizations.
  • Recognize the compliance, risk, and regulatory consequences of cloud computing and its financial and strategic impact on an organization.
  • Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address both private cloud and public cloud customer needs.
  • Configure vCloud providers that can accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources
  • Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud.
  • Integrate vCloud Director security with existing LDAP systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security rolesnderstand the common terms and definitions of cloud computing.
  • Understand the business benefits and business considerations of cloud computing.
  • Understand cloud computing from a technical perspective and recognize the various techniques, methods, challenges, and types of clouds.
  • Understand the impact and changes of cloud computing on IT service management.
  • Explain typical steps that lead to the successful adoption of cloud computing and understand the implications for organizations.
  • Recognize the compliance, risk, and regulatory consequences of cloud computing and its financial and strategic impact on an organization.
  • Evaluate and design a multitenant environment to address both private cloud and public cloud customer needs.
  • Configure vCloud providers that can accommodate heterogeneous server, storage, and network resources.
  • Design a network infrastructure optimized for vCloud.
  • Integrate vCloud Director security with existing LDAP systems and design appropriate security hierarchies with security roles.
  • Design a vCenter Chargeback implementation.

Course Prerequisites:

  • VM-315  or equivalent experience.
  • Managing or administering at least one of UNIX, Windows, databases, networking, or security.

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TechNow has heard many students talk about virtualized/remote training that TechNow Does Not Do.  While training our most recent offering of PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack a student told his story of how he endend up in our course.  His story we have heard for other technologies like Cisco, VMware, BlueCoat and other products.

A large percentage of training is moving to the virtualized/remote lab environments.  Students are asked to use some variant of remote access software and remote into the training company's lab environment. Our student in our Palo Alto Networks Firewall course informed us that he went to a very costly offering of that course from the vendor and was not able to perform any labs.  There were either network connectivity issues, or issues with the remote access software, or other problems.  The whole training experience was very frustrating and not productive.

We keep our labs open to students if they would like after hours, or before hours access.  Repeatedly going through a lab engrains that knowledge for later recall.  Touching hardware is so critical in understanding the problems that arise when a cable comes loose, or a cable gets plugged in the wrong port.  There are other scenarios such as just pulling the power cable, or turning off a power strip, or accidently overwriting a configuration.  These disaster scenarious requires hands-on physical access to hardware.  Preventing and recovering from disasters is what it's all about, and that requires hands-on, instructor led, real hardware.

Course Overview:

 Cisco DoD Comply-to-Connect (C2C) course teaches you how to implement and deploy a Department of Defense (DoD) Comply-to-Connect network architecture using Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). This training covers implementation of 802.1X for both wired and wireless devices and how Cisco ISE uses that information to apply policy control and enforcement. Additionally, other topics like supplicants, non-supplicants, ISE profiler, authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and public key infrastructure (PKI) support, reporting and troubleshooting are covered. Finally, C2C specific use case scenarios are covered.

This training also earns you 32 Continuing Education (CE) credits toward recertification.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

 

Course Outline: 

Section 1: C2C Fundamentals

  • Comply to Connect Overview
  • From C2C to ZTA
  • Steps to Implement C2C

Section 2: Cisco Identity-Based Networking Services

  • Cisco IBNS Overview
  • AAA Role in Cisco IBNS
  • Compare Cisco IBNS and Cisco ISE Solutions
  • Explore Cisco IBNS Architecture Components

Section 3: Introducing Cisco ISE Architecture

  • Cisco ISE as a Network Access Policy Engine
  • Cisco ISE Use Cases
  • Cisco ISE Functions

Section 4: Introducing Cisco ISE Deployment

  • Cisco ISE Deployment Models
  • Cisco ISE Licensing and Network Requirements
  • Cisco ISE Context Visibility Features
  • New Features in Cisco ISE 3.X

Section 5: Introducing Cisco ISE Policy Enforcement Components

  • 802.1X for Wired and Wireless Access
  • MAC Authentication Bypass for Wired and Wireless Access
  • Identity Management
  • Active Directory Identity Source
  • Additional Identity Sources
  • Certificate Services

Section 6: Introducing Cisco ISE Policy Configuration

  • Cisco ISE Policy
  • Cisco ISE Authentication Rules
  • Cisco ISE Authorization Rules

Section 7: PKI and Advanced Supplicants

  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  • TEAP in Comply to Connect (C2C)
  • Secure Client ISE features and Configuration for C2C

Section 8: Introducing the Cisco ISE Profiler

  • Web Access with Cisco ISE
  • ISE Profiler
  • Cisco ISE Probes
  • Profiling Policy
  • Custom Attributes in Profile

Section 9: Introducing Cisco ISE Endpoint Compliance Services

  • Endpoint Compliance Services Overview

Section 10: Configuring Client Posture Services and Compliance

  • Client Posture Services and Provisioning Configuration

Section 11: Introducing Profiling Best Practices and Reporting

  • Profiling Best Practices

Section 12: C2C Use Cases

  • Cisco CX ISE Reporting Tool
  • ISE Reporting
  • ISE Hardening
  • Profiling Best Practices for C2C

Section 13: C2C Third-Party Integrations-Tenable

  • Tenable Use Case
  • Tenable Overview and Capabilities
  • Tenable Integration Prerequisites
  • Tenable Integration Configuration
  • Policy Design
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Enforcement Verification

Section 14: C2C Third-Party Integrations-MECM

  • MECM Use Case
  • MECM Overview and Capabilities
  • MECM Integration Prerequisites
  • MECM Integration Configuration
  • Policy Design
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Enforcement Verification

Section 15: C2C Third-Party Integrations-Trellix

  • Trellix Use Case
  • Trellix Overview and Capabilities
  • Trellix Integration Prerequisites
  • Trellix Integration Configuration
  • Policy Enforcement
  • Enforcement Verification

Section 16: Troubleshooting Cisco ISE Policy and Third-Party NAD

  • Cisco ISE Third-Party Network Access Device Support
  • Troubleshooting Cisco ISE Policy Configuration

Section 17: Exploring Cisco TrustSec

  • Cisco TrustSec Overview
  • Cisco TrustSec Enhancements
  • Cisco TrustSec Configuration

Section 18: Working with Network Access Devices

  • Reviewing AAA
  • Cisco ISE TACACS+ Device Administration
  • Configuring TACACS+ Device Administration
  • TACACS+ Device Administration Guidelines and Best Practices

 

Course Prerequisites: 

There are no prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:

  • Familiarity with 802.1X
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
  • Familiarity with Cisco IOS CLI for wired and wireless network devices
  • Familiarity with Cisco Identity Service Engine