PA-242: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Manage Cyberthreats (EDU-231)

Course Overview: PA-242: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Manage Cyberthreats (EDU-231) Training Class is a two-day course that teaches students strategies in defense against cyberthreats. Successful completion of this course enables administrators to better understand the threat landscape. 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.

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, ISC2, ISACA, Cisco, Unix, and Windows certifications.

Attendees to the PA-242: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Manaage Cyberthreats (EDU-231) Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 2 days

Course Objectives: Students attending this training course will gain an understanding of cyberthreats and their characteristics. Students will learn how to manage cyberthreats using security policies, profiles, and signatures to protect their network against emerging threats.

Day 1

Mod 1: Threat Landscape
- Advanced Persistent
- Threats
- Data Breaches and Tactics
- Threat Management
- Strategies
Mod 2: Integrated
- Approach to Threat
- Protection
- Integrated Approach to
- Protection
- Next-Generation Firewall
- Advanced Endpoint
- Protection
Mod 3: Network Visibility
- Zero Trust Model
- SSL Decryption
- Decryption Policy
Mod 4: Reducing the Attack
- Surf
- ection

Day 2

Mod 5: Handling Known
- Threats
- WildFire Analysis
- Security Profiles
Mod 6: Handling Unknown
- Traffic and Zero-Day Exploits
- WildFire
- Researching Threat Events
- Identifying Unknown
- Applications
Mod 7: Investigating
- Breaches
- Identify IOCs Using
- App-Scope
- Log Correlation
- Finding Infected Host
Mod 8: Using Custom
- Signatures
- Creating Custom App-IDs
- Threat Signatures

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Prerequisites:

Students must complete the PA-213: Install, Configure, and Manage course
Understanding of network concepts, including routing, switching, and IP addressing
In-depth knowledge of port-based security and security technologies such as IPS, proxy, and content filtering

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

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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

Knowledge of search and subjection and rules for evidence as applicable to computer forensics.
Ability to explain the on-scene action taken for evidence preservation.
Ability to maintain and document an environment consolidating the computer forensics.

Computer Fundamentals

Understand BIOS
Computer hardware
Understanding of numbering system (Binary, hexadecimal, bits, bytes).
Knowledge of sectors, clusters, files.
Understanding of logical and physical files.
Understanding of logical and physical drives.

Partitioning schemes

Identification of current partitioning schemes.
Understanding of primary and extended partition.
Knowledge of partitioning schemes and structures and system used by it.
Knowledge of GUID and its application.

Windows file system

Understanding of concepts of files.
Understanding of FAT tables, root directory, subdirectory along with how they store data.
Identification, examination, analyzation of NTFS master file table.
Understanding of $MFT structure and how they store data.
Understanding of Standard information, Filename, and data attributes.

Data Recovery

Ability to validate forensic hardware, software, examination procedures.
Email headers understanding.
Ability to generate and validate forensically sterile media.
Ability to generate and validate a forensic image of media.
Understand hashing and hash sets.
Understand file headers.
Ability to extract file metadata from common file types.
Understanding of file fragmentation.
Ability to extract component files from compound files.
Knowledge of encrypted files and strategies for recovery.
Knowledge of Internet browser artifacts.
Knowledge of search strategies for examining electronic

Windows Artifacts

Understanding the purpose and structure of component files that create the windows registry.
Identify and capability to extract the relevant data from the dead registry.
Understand the importance of restore points and volume shadow copy services.
Knowledge of the locations of common Windows artifacts.
Ability to analyze recycle bin.
Ability to analyze link files.
Analyzing of logs
Extract and view windows logs
Ability to locate, mount and examine VHD files.
Understand the Windows swap and hibernation files.

Report Writing (Presentation of findings)

Ability to conclude things strongly based on examination observations.
Able to report findings using industry standard technically accurate terminologies.
Ability to explain the complex things in simple and easy terms so that non-technical people can understand clearly.
Be able to consider legal boundaries when undertaking a forensic examination

PA-232: Palo Alto Networks Panorama Manage Multiple Firewalls (EDU-221)

Course Overview: PA-232: Palo Alto Networks Panorama Manage Multiple Firewalls (EDU-221) Training Class is a two-day course. Students attending this course will gain an in-depth knowledge of how to configure and manage their Palo Alto Networks Panorama Management Server. Upon completion of this course, administrators will understand the Panorama server’s role in managing and securing their overall network. Network professionals will learn to use Panorama’s aggregated reporting to provide them with a holistic view of a network of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. 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. 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, ISC2, ISACA, Cisco, Unix, and Windows certifications.

Attendees to the PA-232: Palo Alto Networks Panorama Manage Multiple Firewalls (EDU-221) Training Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 2 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 Panorama Management Server.

Day 1

Module 0 – Introduction & Overview
Mod 1: Overview
- Panorama Solution
- Deployment Design
Mod 2: Initial Configuration
- Interface Configuration
- Setup Configurations
- Device Deployment
- Configuration Management
Mod 3: Templates
- Templates Overview
- Common Organization
- Strategies
- Configuring Templates
Mod 4: Device Groups
- Device Groups
- Objects
- Policies
- Device Group Commit

Day 2

Mod 5: Administration
- Admin Roles and Access
- Control
- Commit Procedure
Mod 6: Logging and
- Reporting
- Logging
- Application Command
- Center
- App-Scope
- Correlation Objects
- Reports
Mod 7: Log Collectors
- Plan a Log Collection
- Deployment
- Distributed Data Collection
- Log Deployment
- Configure Dedicated Log
- Collector
- Managed Collector Groups
Mod 8: Business Continuity
- Panorama High Availability
- Collector Group
- Redundancy
- Export Configuration
- Disk Installation

Prerequisites:

Security+, Network+, CCNA and networking experience is recommended.

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

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TN-555: Certified Ethical Hacker v13 (CEH)

Course Overview:

This CEH course will immerse you into a “Hacker Mindset” in order to teach you how to think like a hacker and better defend against future attacks. Students are in the driver’s seat with a hands-on training environment employing a systematic ethical hacking process. All while teaching students how to scan, test, hack, and secure target systems. CEH shows how hackers think and act maliciously so you can learn to better position your organization’s security infrastructure and defend against future attacks.

This CEH course covers the Five Phases of Ethical Hacking, diving into Reconnaissance, Gaining Access, Enumeration, Maintaining Access, and covering your tracks.

This CEH course delivers in-demand ethical hacking skills while preparing you for the internationally-recognized Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification exam from EC-Council.

This course supports a certification that is DoD approved 8570 Baseline Certificate and meets DoD 8140/8570 training requirements.

What’s Included:

EC-Council official E-Courseware
EC-Council official iLabs code with access for 6 months
EC-Council official Certificate of Attendance
CEH Exam Voucher

Security Course Flow

Dates/Locations:

Date/Time	Event
02/23/2026 - 02/27/2026 08:00 -16:00	TN-555: Certified Ethical Hacker v13 (CEH) TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
06/01/2026 - 06/05/2026 08:00 -16:00	TN-555: Certified Ethical Hacker v13 (CEH) TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
08/24/2026 - 08/28/2026 08:00 -16:00	TN-555: Certified Ethical Hacker v13 (CEH) TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
11/30/2026 - 12/04/2026 08:00 -16:00	TN-555: Certified Ethical Hacker v13 (CEH) TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

Duration: 5 Days

Course Content:

Module 01. Introduction to Ethical Hacking
Module 02. Foot-printing and Reconnaissance
Module 03. Scanning Networks
Module 04. Enumeration
Module 05. Vulnerable Analysis
Module 06. System Hacking
Module 07. Malware Threats
Module 08. Sniffing
Module 09. Social Engineering
Module 10. Denial-of-Service
Module 11. Session Hijacking
Module 12. Evading IDS,Firewalls, and Honeypots
Module 13. Hacking Web Servers
Module 14. Hacking Web Applications
Module 15. SQL Injection
Module 16. Hacking Wireless Networks
Module 17. Hacking Mobile Platforms
Module 18. IoT and OT Hacking
Module 19. Cloud Computing
Module 20. Cryptography

Prerequisites:

Windows operating system and/or Linux operating system or other Unix-based OS
TCP/IP protocols and implementation
At least 2 years of IT security experience
TN-325:Security+

Target Audience:

Information Security Analyst/Administrator, Information Assurance (IA) Security Officer, Information Security Manager/Specialist, Auditors, Security Professional, Site Admins, Penetration Testers, Red Team,Risk/Threat/Vulnerability Analyst, Individuals concerned about the integrity of network infrastructure

About us:

TechNow has taught security courses for almost 30 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 in security training, consulting, and compliance.

Tech Now, Inc. is an accredited Training Center with Ec-Council.

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RH-355: RHCSA Rapid Track Course

Course Overview:

The RHCSA Rapid Track Course is designed for experienced Linux® system administrators who want to expand their technical skill sets and become accredited with the Red Hat® Certified System Administration (RHCSA) certification. To successfully navigate this course, students should have experience with the Linux command line—including the necessary skills to execute common commands, such as cp, grep, sort, mkdir, tar, mkfs, ssh, and dnf—and be familiar with accessing man pages for help. At the completion of the course, students will be adequately prepared to take the RHCSA exam (EX200) .

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

Introduce Linux and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem.
Run commands and view shell environments.
Manage, organize, and secure files.
Manage users, groups and user security policies.
Control and monitor systemd services.
Configure remote access using the web console and SSH.
Configure network interfaces and settings.
Manage software using DNF
Access security files, file systems, and networks
Execute shell scripting and automation techniques
Manage storage devices, logical volumes, and file systems
Manage security and system access
Control the boot process and system services
Running containers