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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

    Attendees to this seminar, Windows Security Automation and Threat Hunting with PowerShell, will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.[/wr_text][/wr_column][/wr_row]

    DO-375: Automation with Ansible and Ansible Tower

     

    Course Overview:

    Through hands-on labs, you will learn to automate system administration tasks on managed hosts with Ansible, learn how to write Ansible playbooks to standardize task execution, and manage encryption for Ansible with Ansible Vault. This course will also teach you how to deploy and use Red Hat® Ansible Tower to centrally manage existing Ansible projects, playbooks, and roles; perform basic maintenance and administration of the Ansible Tower installation; and configure users and teams and use them to control access to systems, projects, and other resources through role-based access controls. You will learn to use Ansible Tower’s visual dashboard to launch, control, and monitor Ansible jobs; use the Ansible Tower application programming interface (API) to launch jobs from existing templates; automatically schedule Ansible jobs; and dynamically update host inventories.

    Course Objectives:

    • Install and troubleshoot Ansible on central nodes and managed hosts
    • Automate administration tasks with Ansible playbooks and ad hoc commands
    • Write effective Ansible playbooks
    • Protect sensitive data used by tasks with Ansible Vault.
    • Install and configure Ansible Tower for enterprise Ansible management
    • Use Ansible Tower to control access to inventories and machine credentials by users and teams
    • Create job templates in Ansible Tower to standardize playbook execution.
    • Centrally launch playbooks and monitor and review job results with Ansible Tower

     

    Course Outline:

    • Introduce Ansible
    • Deploy Ansible
    • Implement playbooks
    • Manage variables and inclusions
    • Implement task control
    • Implement Jinja2 templates
    • Implement roles
    • Configure complex playbooks
    • Implement Ansible Vault
    • Troubleshoot Ansible
    • Install Ansible Tower and describe Ansible Tower’s architecture
    • Create users and teams for role-based access control
    • Create and manage inventories and credentials
    • Manage projects for provisioning with Ansible Tower
    • Construct advanced job workflows
    • Update inventories dynamically and compare inventory members
    • Maintenance and administration of Ansible Tower

     
    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 5 Days

    Prerequisites:

    • Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, or demonstrate equivalent experience

    Target Audience:

    This course is designed for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, and network administrators needing to automate configuration management, application deployment, and intraservice orchestration at an enterprise scale.

    CL-115: Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Cloud Operators

     

    Course Overview:

    The focus of Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Cloud Operators (CL110) will be managing OpenStack using both the web-based dashboard and the command-line interface, in addition to managing instances and installing a proof-of-concept environment using Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) director. Essential skills covered in the course include configuring Red Hat OpenStack Platform (using the director UI); managing users, projects, flavors, roles, images, networking, and block storage; setting quotas; and configuring images at instantiation.

    Attendees to CL-115 Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Cloud Operators will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 5 Days

    Prerequisites:

    This course is designed for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, and cloud operators interested in, or responsible for, maintaining a private or hybrid cloud.

    Prerequisites for this course is Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or demonstrate equivalent experience

    Course Outline:

    • Launch an instance
    • Manage projects, quotas, and users
    • Manage networks, subnets, routers, and floating IP adresses
    • Create and manage block and object storage in the OpenStack framework
    • Customize instances with cloud-init
    • Deploy scalable stacks
    • Deploy RedHat OpenStack Platform using RHOSP director

     

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    CL-345: Red Hat OpenStack Administration II

     

    Course Overview:

    The focus of this course is managing Red Hat OpenStack Platform using the unified command-line interface, managing instances, and maintaining an enterprise deployment of OpenStack. This course also teaches the management and customization of an enterprise deployment of OpenStack (overcloud) and how to manage compute nodes with Red Hat OpenStack Platform director (undercloud).

    Attendees to CL-345: Red Hat OpenStack Administration II will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 5 Days

    Prerequisites:

    This course is intended for Linux system administrators, cloud administrators, cloud operators, and infrastructure architects interested in, or responsible for, maintaining a private or hybrid cloud.

    Prerequisites for this course is Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or demonstrate equivalent experience.

    Attend Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Cloud Operators (CL115), or demonstrate equivalent experience

    Course Outline:

    • Navigate the Red Hat OpenStack Platform architecture
    • Describe the OpenStack control plane
    • Integrate Identity Management
    • Perform image operations
    • Manage storage
    • Manage OpenStack networking
    • Manage compute resources
    • Automate could applications
    • Troubleshoot OpenStack operations
    • Comprehensive review

     

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    VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage

    Course Overview:

    This course explores the VMware Infrastructure, which consists of VMware ESX Server & VMware Virtual Center Server.  We will look at both the design environments and operational processes of the VMware Infrastructure. This course provides IT architects with the insight needed to tackle tough issues in server virtualization such as virtual machine technologies, storage infrastructure, and designing clustered environments. Extensive hands-on labs provide for a rich student experience.

    Attendees to VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Dates/Locations:

    Date/Time Event
    09/29/2025 - 10/03/2025
    08:00 -16:00     		VM-315: VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, and Manage
    TechNow, Inc, San Antonio TX

    Duration: 5 Days

    Course Objectives:

    • Virtual Infrastructure Overview
    • ESX and ESXi Server Installation
    • Configuration of Networking, Scalability and Security
    • Storage
    • Install and Configure vCenter Server and Components
    • Creation, Deployment, Management, and Migration of Virtual Machines
    • Utilize vCenter Server  for Resource Management
    • Utilize vCenter Server for Virtual Machine Access Control and User Managment
    • Use vCenter Server to increase scalability
    • Monitoring Your Environment
    • Data & Availability Protection Troubleshooting

    • Use VMware vCenter Update Manager to apply ESXi patches

    • Use vCenter Server to manage vMotion, HA, DRS and data protection.

    Prerequisites:

    • To ensure your success, system administration experience on Microsoft or Linux operating systems is required.

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    Instructor comments: The instructor was nice and kept us entertained while providing instruction.

    Facilities comments: The facility was nice, clean and easy to get to.

    User: asteeves@aol.com

    Instructor comments: knowledgeable but can get off subject at times

    Facilities comments: good

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