Course Overview:

TN-542: Establishing a Security Operations Center (SOC) People, Processes, and Technologies is the big picture overview of a SOC, other courses provide a deep dive into the technologies that a SOC may utilize. This course addresses the internal workings of staff, skills required, required authorizations, internal agreements, and setting appropriate expectation levels of a SOC within budget constraints. A SOC is not a one size fits all, the instructor has decades of security experience and brings to the table opportunities to discuss what can work within constraints. Many organizations are coming to the realization that some level of a SOC is now required and to learn just what decisions need to be made: Out-sourced, In-sourced, budgets, capabilities and many more. Students leave with a worksheet of how to progress when they get back to their organization.

TN-542: Establishing a Security Operations Center (SOC) People, Processes, and Technologies – Is a course that incorporates lecture, demos, and group exercises for standing up a Security Operations Center (SOC). Students learn strategies and resources required to deploy, build, and run Network Security Monitoring (NSM) and work roles and flows for a SOC. No network is bullet proof and when attackers access your network, this course will show you options and resources to build a security net to detect, contain, and control the attacker. Examples on what it takes to architect an NSM solution to identify sophisticated attackers and a response strategy. Properly implemented detection and response technologies is integral to incident response and provides the responders timely information and tools to react to the incident. Effective demonstrations are given of Open Source technologies that build up a SOC, but any software can be used and demonstrations are provided to demonstrate technology families not push a specific solution.

TN-542: Establishing a Security Operations Center (SOC) People, Processes, and Technologies demonstrations utilize a cyber range that gives each student in-depth knowledge of monitoring live systems to include: Cisco, Windows, Linux, IoT, and Firewalls; and software and services to provide orchestrate Incident Response, Intelligence Analysis, and Hunt Operations.

Attendees to TN-542: Establishing a Security Operations Center (SOC) People, Processes, and Technologies class will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 2 Days

Course Objective:

    • To provide management an overview of what it takes to stand up a SOC.

Prerequisites:

  • Students should have an understanding of the security field.

Course Outline:

  • What threats does my organization care about?
  • What does a threat look like?
  • What does a threat look like?
  • How to present the SOC internally.
  • Communication with Stakeholders and Executives
  • Leveraging and integrating existing security measures
  • People
    • Establishing a skill matrix and work roles for SOC members
    • Establishing a training path
    • Personnel background requirementsProcesses
  • Processes
    • Alignment to standards: NIST, PCI, HIPAA, etc.
    • Risk related decision trees
    • Playbooks
    • Threat Intelligence Integration
  • Technology – Tool Suites to Support:
    • Ethical Hacking
    • Network Security Monitoring and SIEM
    • Forensics
    • Dashboards
    • Analysis and Hunting
    • Incident Management and Ticketing

 

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    Course Overview:

    In this course, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to configure, maintain, and operate Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance.

    Attendees to N-455: Securing Networks with ASA Fundamentals (SNAF) will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

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    Duration: 5 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Introducing Cisco Security Appliance Technology and Features
    • Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and PIX Security Appliance Families
    • Getting Started with Cisco Security Appliances
    • Essential Security Appliance Configuration
    • Configuring Translations and Connection Limits
    • Using ACLS and Content Filtering
    • Configuring Object Grouping
    • Switching and Routing on Security Appliances
    • Configuring AAA for Cut-Through Proxy
    • Configuring the Cisco Modular Policy Framework
    • Configuring Advanced Protocol Handling
    • Configuring Threat Detection
    • Configuring Site-to-Site VPNS Using PreShared Keys
    • Configuring Security Appliance Remote Access VPNs
    • Configuring Cisco Security Appliance for SSL VPN
    • Configuring Transparent Firewalls Mode
    • Configuring Security Contexts
    • Configuring Failover
    • Managing Security Appliances

    Prerequisites:

     

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    Course Overview:

    This course is developed for those individuals seeking to pass the Project Management Institute’s PMI-ACP Exam. PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® is one of the newest certifications offered by PMI and is expected to become the industry standard certification for agile over the next few years. The PMI-ACP® certification clearly illustrates to colleagues, organizations or even potential employers that students are ready and able to lead in this new age of product development, management, and delivery.

    While preparing you for the exam, you will explore various approaches to agility including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming (XP), and Test-Driven Development (TDD). By the end of the course, you’ll have mastered the practices and techniques that Agile practitioners use to improve team performance, resolve problems and engage in continuous process improvements and be equipped with job-ready skills.

    This course provides students with 21 contact hours in agile practices to help attain the Project Management Institute (PMI)® credential.  PMI® and PMI-ACP® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

    Attendees to PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Prep Course will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

    Date/Time Event
    02/17/2026 - 02/20/2026
    08:00 -16:00
    PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Prep Course
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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    PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Prep Course
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
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    08:00 -16:00
    PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Prep Course
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX
    12/14/2026 - 12/17/2026
    08:00 -16:00
    PM-224: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® Prep Course
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

    Duration: 4 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Agile Principles and Mindset
    • Value-driven delivery
    • Stakeholder engagement
    • Team performance
    • Adaptive planning
    • Problem detection and Resolution
    • Continuous Improvement

    Prerequisites:

    • Secondary degree
    • 21 contact hours of training in agile practices
    • 12 months of general project experience within the last 5 years. A current PMP® or PgMP® will satisfy this requirement but is not required to apply for the PMI-ACP
    • 8 months of agile project experience within the last 3 years

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    Course Overview:

    This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.

    Attendees to TN-765: Automating Administration with Windows Powershell will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Date/Locations:

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    Course Duration: 5 days

    Course Objectives:

     

    • Describe the functionality of Windows PowerShell and use it to run and find basic commands
    • Identify and run cmdlets for server administration
    • Work with Windows PowerShell pipeline
    • Describe the techniques Windows PowerShell pipeline uses
    • Use PSProviders and PSDrives to work with other forms of storage
    • Query system information by using WMI and CIM
    • Work with variables, arrays, and hash tables
    • Write basic scripts in Windows PowerShell
    • Write advanced scripts in Windows PowerShell
    • Administer remote computers
    • Use background jobs and scheduled jobs
    • Use advanced Windows PowerShell techniques

     

    Course Prerequisites:

     

    • Experience with Windows networking technologies and implementation.
    • Experience with Windows Server administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

     

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