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PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack

By technow on January 10, 2013 No Comments
  

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. Through hands-on training, students learn high end skills of how to integrate Palo Alto next-generation firewalls into the Air Force network infrastructure.This is not a virtualized theoretical course.  This is hands-on, real world instruction, directly relevant to the Air Force implementation of Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.

Each student is issued a physical Palo Alto firewall at their desk.  Each student is issued  a Cisco router and a Cisco switch at their desk.  Real hardware per student for real experience and real skill development.  Students are provided with a top notch hardware environment that includes laptops and several client systems.  TechNow provides a very comprehensive hardware infrastructure that includes Cisco switches and routers, Windows, Linux, and Macintosh clients, 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, 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:

Date/Time Event
08/19/2013 - 08/23/2013
08:00 -16:00 		Palo Alto Firewall Essentials FastTrack
TechNow – San Antonio, TX, San Antonio TX

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).

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

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Categories : All Security Courses, Firewalls and Appliances, Security

TN-901: Linux for Security Professionals

By technow on November 9, 2012 No Comments

Course Overview:

This course will be fast paced with in-depth and live demonstrations.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 1 day

Course Objectives:

  • AIDE
  • DNS Security with DNSsec
  • Logging and Audit Management
  • Linux Security Modules and SE-Linux
  • Linus Containers (Jailing Services and Apps)
  • SSH and SSL tunneling

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Categories : Linux, Security, Specialized

TN-801: Windows for Security Professionals

By technow on November 9, 2012 No Comments

Course Overview:

This course will be fast paced with in-depth and live demonstrations.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 1 day

Course Objectives:

  • UEFI, SecureBoot, TPM, and Enterprise BitLocker
  • Windows VPN in the Enterprise
  • Windows Advanced Firewall
  • Utilizing Windows WMI
  • Administering Windows with Powershell
  • Using Autopsy for Forensics

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TN-919: GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)

By technow on October 1, 2012 No Comments

Course Overview:

This course engages students by providing in-depth knowledge of the most prominent and powerful attack vectors and an environment to perform these attacks in numerous hands-on scenarios. This course goes far beyond simple scanning for low-hanging fruit, and shows penetration testers how to model the abilities of an advanced attacker to find significant flaws in a target environment and demonstrate the business risk associated with these flaws.

Attendees to TN-919: GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN) will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Course Duration: 9 days

Course Objectives:

  • Advanced Hash Manipulation
  • Command Shell vs. Terminal Access
  • Enumerating Users
  • Exploitation Fundamentals
  • Injection Attacks
  • Legal Issues
  • Metasploit
  • Moving Files with Exploits
  • Obtaining and Passing Password Representations
  • Overview of Passwords
  • Penetration Testing Foundations
  • Penetration Testing Process
  • Penetration Testing via the Command Line
  • Profiling the Target
  • Reconnaissance
  • Scanning for Targets
  • Using a Proxy to Attack a Web Application
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Wireless Crypto and Client Attacks
  • Wireless Fundamentals

Course Prerequisites:

  • GSEC or equivalent experience
  • UNIX, Windows, networking, and security experience
  • This is a hands-on skill course requiring comfort with command line interaction and network communications

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Categories : Security, Specialized

TN-999: GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)

By technow on August 17, 2012 No Comments

Course Overview:

This course is designed for professionals that are expected to do malware analysis.

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

Date/Locations:

Date/Time Event
08/05/2013 - 08/09/2013
08:00 -16:00 		GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)
TechNow – San Antonio, TX, San Antonio TX
09/09/2013 - 09/19/2013
08:00 -16:00 		GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)
DC/Metropolitan Area, DC/Metro Area
09/23/2013 - 10/03/2013
08:00 -16:00 		GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)
TechNow – San Antonio, TX, San Antonio TX

Duration: 9 days

Course Objectives:

  • Toolkit and Lab Assembly
  • Malware Code and Behavioral Analysis Fundamentals
  • Malicious Static and Dynamic Code Analysis
  • Collecting/Probing System and Network Activities
  • Analysis of Malicious Document Files
  • Analyzing Protected Executables
  • Analyzing Web-Based Malware
  • DLL Construction and API Hooking
  • Common Windows Malware Characteristics in x86 Assembly
  • Unpacking Protected Malware
  • In-Depth Analysis of Malicious Browser Scripts, Flash Programs and Office
  • In-Depth Analysis of Malicious Executables
  • Windows x86 Assembly Code Concepts for Revers-Engineering Memory Forensics for Rootkit Analysis

Prerequisites:

  • Strong understanding of core systems and network concepts
  • Exposure to programming and assembly concepts
  • Comfortable with command line access

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User: marcus.osullivan

Instructor comments: Good stuff. I like the beginning half where there was help from an additional instructor to facilitate fixing computer errors that inevitably popped up.

Facilities comments: The baby deer were neat! I like the resort.

User: bfowler1

Instructor comments: Gonna miss coming to class!

Facilities comments: WINNING!

User: niki_york

Instructor comments: incredibly knowledgeable!

Facilities comments: the new training resort is absolutely beautiful! so peaceful and serene - much more conducive to learning than the Hilton.

User: bud_winn

Instructor comments: Instructor was very knowledgeable on the course material. Having an assistant during the first week to help on labs proved ideal - we could move briskly through the labs and bypass a lot of the technical difficulties.

Facilities comments: The new facility is excellent.

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