P-325: Python Programming

Course Overview:

This is an introductory course into the Python scripting language.  This class uses a hands-on approach in teaching the Python language.  This course builds the prerequisite skills for TechNow's P-345: Python for Pentration Testers course.  Getting comfortable with Python is important to understanding how Python can be utilitized for offensive measures.

This course is hands-on with the instructor walking the students through many short examples to exemplify an objective.  Dexterity with the language comes through many small code examples to produce the desired result.  Students have fun acquiring points for all the code examples they get correct.  We must be having fun because TechNow is always amazed at how competitive students are in trying to acquire the most points!  

The instructor will focus on the level that each student is currently at, and ensure the student absorbs the subject matter.  Programming is not a daily tasking of administrators or offensive operators and TechNow understands that.  As an instructor led course TechNow is very successful in making Python accessible to those who do not live eat and breath programming.  If a student's ultimate goal is to attend a course like TechNow's P-345: Python for Pentration Testers course, then not being bogged down in the Python language is critical, and this course (P-325: Python Programming) meets that objective.

Recently we have introduced Raspberry Pi's and multiple sensors to the P-325: Python Programming course.  This enables the student to actually see productive results from their coding skills in the physical world!  Some examples that students create programs for are: Motion detectors, distance, temperature, cameras and keypads.

Attendees to P-325: Python Programming will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Dates/Locations:

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Duration: 5 Days

Course Objectives:

  • How Python Runs Programs
  • Introducing Python Object Types
    • Numeric Types
    • Dynamic Typing
  • Variables
  • Regular Expressions
  • Strings
  • Conditionals
    • if Tests and Syntax Rules
  • Lists and Dictionaries
  • Tuples and Files
  • Introducing Python Statements
  • Assignments, Expressions, and Prints
  • while and for Loops
  • Iterations and Comprehensions
  • Documentation
  • Function Basics
  • Built-In Functions
  • Scopes
  • Arguments
  • Modules
  • Module Packages and Importing
  • Classes and OOP
  • Operator Overloading
  • Recursion
  • Exception Coding Details
  • Exception Objects
  • Unicode and Byte Strings
  • Working with Raspberry Pi
    • Writing code for sensors

Prerequisites:

  • Experience with some form of programming is preferred

 

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User: slewis8435

Instructor comments: Very good instructor - he was excited about the material, very knowledgeable, and explained things clearly.

Facilities comments: The facilities were fine - plenty of room for each student to set up an extra computer and have room for note taking

User: nathan.karras

Instructor comments: Instructor was extremely knowledgeable in programming and scripting. He encouraged students to explore and ask questions. He would work with individuals to troubleshoot lab problems sets. Would highly recommend as an instructor.

Facilities comments: Room got a little warn. Instructor purchased fans to cool things off for the class. Projector had over scan.

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    Course Overview:

    TechNow has worked worldwide enterprise infrastructures for over 30 years and has developed demos and labs to exemplify the techniques required to demonstrate technologies that effectively support CTI.  This course integrates well with our courses TN-575: Open Source Network Security Monitoring and TN-865: Wireshark Network Traffic and Security Analysis .

    TechNow develops Cyber Ranges and makes them available for conferences in support of annual meetings for Cyber Threat Response Teams.  Developing scenarios and reacting to them appropriately is a big part of the value in understanding the contexts required to comprehend valuable CTI.   As with many advanced TechNow security courses, there is a large hands-on ratio.  This course helps Cyber Protection Teams (CPT), Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), and Mission Defense Teams (MDT) to collect, analyze and apply targeted cyber intelligence to defensive operations in order to proactively act on and tune response to attacks by cyber adversaries.  CPT, DCO, and MDT can take preemptive action by utilizing CTI, understanding CTI tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) needed to generate and consume timely and relevant intelligence to improve resilience and prevention.

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    Attendees to TN-905: Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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    Course Duration: 5 days

    Course Objectives:

    • Learn to comprehend and develop complex scenarios
    • Identify and create intelligence requirements through practices such as threat modeling
    • Utilize threat modeling to drive intelligence handling and practices 
    • Breakdown tactical, operational, and strategic-level threat intelligence
    • Generate threat intelligence to detect, respond to, and defeat focused and targeted threats
    • How to collect adversary information creating better value CTI
    • How to filter and qualify external sources, mitigating low integrity intelligence
    • Create Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) in formats such as YARA, OpenIOC, and STIX
    • Move security maturity past IOCs into understanding and countering the behavioral tradecraft of threats
    • Breaking down threats mapped against their tradecraft to tweak IOCs
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    VM-325: VMware View: Install, Configure and Manage

    Course Overview:

    This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware ViewTM suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware® ThinAppTM.  Based on customer specification, this course can be based on View 4.x or 5.x, and ThinApp 4.x or 5.x releases.

    Attendees to VM-325: VMware View: Install, Configure and Manage will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    At the end of this course, you should understand the features and operations of View and be able to:

    • Install and configure View components
    • Create and manage dedicated and floating desktop pools
    • Deploy and manage linked-clone virtual desktops
    • Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode
    • Configure secure access to desktops through a public network
    • Use ThinApp to package applications

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    Duration: 5 days

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    • Module 1: Course Introduction
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    • Module 3: View Connection Server
    • Module 4: View Desktops
    • Module 5: View Client Options
    • Module 6: View Administratory
    • Module 7: Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
    • Module 8: Local-Mode Desktops
    • Module 9: Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
    • Module 10: Managing VMware View Security
    • Module 11: View Manager Performance and Scalability
    • Module 12: VMware® ThinAppTM

    Prerequisites:

    • VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure and Manage
    • Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory Administration
    • Experience with VMware vSphereTM
    • Before attending the course, students must be able to perform the following tasks:
      • Create a template in VMware vCenterTM Server and deploy a virtual machine from it
      • Modify a template customization file
      • Open a virtual machine console in vCenter Server and access the guest operating system
      • Configure Active Directory services

     

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    TN-999: Reverse Engineering Malware Course

    Course Overview:

    This course is designed for professionals that are expected to do malware analysis. A skills focus enables the student to better absorb the subject matter and perform successfully on the job.   This is not death by power point. The course is aligned with information assurance operators and executing hands-on labs. Lecture and labs walk the student through the knowledge required to truly understand the mechanics Reverse Engineering Malware.

    Attendees to TN-999: Reverse Engineering Malware will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

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    Duration: 5 days

    Course Objectives:

    • Toolkit and Lab Assembly
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    • Malicious Static and Dynamic Code Analysis
    • Collecting/Probing System and Network Activities
    • Analysis of Malicious Document Files
    • Analyzing Protected Executables
    • Analyzing Web-Based Malware
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    • Unpacking Protected Malware
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    • Strong understanding of core systems and network concepts
    • Exposure to programming and assembly concepts
    • Comfortable with command line access

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