Technical Training Certificate Courses

This 40-hour course presents a detailed and methodological approach to computer forensics and evidence analysis. This will enable candidates to understand the often complex issues associated with investigating cyber-crimes, handling of digital evidence, detection methods, and proof, in a variety of digital forensic contexts, including computers, networks, and portable digital devices. Each module will build upon the knowledge gained from previous modules. This course will introduce cutting edge technologies and methodologies, alongside fundamental building blocks, allowing candidates to simultaneously understand the theory and practical aspects in dealing with digital investigations.

Course Outline:

• Understand the function and limitations of forensic investigations.
• Understand the procedures used in conducting forensic investigations.
• Guide first responders towards successful data acquisition and preservation.
• Describe digital forensics and relate it to an investigative process.
• Explain the legal issues of preparing for and performing digital forensic analysis. based on the investigator’s position and duty.
• Be aware of (digital) evidence storage preparation and requirements.
• Perform basic digital forensic investigations.
• Demonstrate the use of digital forensics tools and their underlying principles.
• Size and set up a digital forensic lab.
• Conduct simple binary analysis on files with unknown and possible malicious functionality.
• Recognize the state of the practice and the gaps in technology, policy, and legal issues.

Duration: 40 Hours

Mode of Delivery: Online Learning 

Who should attend? IT professionals involved with information system security, computer forensics, and incident response, IT Auditors, Cyber Security Analyst

The purpose of this 30-hour course (including either the .Net or Java course) is to provide candidates with a comprehensive understanding of what a Secure Development Process is. The candidates will learn secure programming concepts and techniques; learn how to identify key characteristics of secure code; learn how to use design patterns for secure code; learn how to build in a secure requirement process in the software life cycle from the beginning to the end; and learn how to write, test, and debug programs using secure programming techniques. Topics will include design principles, code snippets, and a simple explanation of each step as you work your way through the course.

The primary objectives of the course are to:

• Identify what secure programming is and why it is needed
• Work with principles associated with software engineering
• Understand the principles of security and quality in the industry and how to use them
• Understand the Application Guide
• Learn how to understand, analyze, and interpret software requirements
• Design for quality using industry frameworks
• Know what industry design patterns are and how to carry them out
• Understand industry-standard development tools
• Know how to produce secure code
• Sustain a formal development process
• Security Considerations for Programming Language Courses (select 1 of the following 2 courses to be included with the Security Programming course):

1. 1. .Net
   2. .Java

Duration: 30 Hours

Mode of Delivery: Online and Blended Learning 

Who should attend? IT professionals involved with information system security, computer forensics, and incident response, IT Auditors, Cyber Security Analyst

This 40-hour course provides an understanding of the various methods in identifying business and technology vulnerabilities. In addition, this course outlines the appropriate countermeasures to mitigate risks and prevent failure. This course is designed to develop a solid foundation to various disaster recovery and business continuity principles, including the assessment of risks, the preparation of a disaster recovery plan, the development of policies and procedures, and an understanding of the roles and relationships within an organization that is recovering from a disaster and the implementation of a plan.

As an important part of a flexible and highly efficient disaster recovery plan, this course addresses the use of virtualization techniques that will assist in the development of an enterprise approach for disaster recovery and business continuity. An introduction to these techniques will be covered, as well as the importance of securing the virtual environments.

The primary objectives of the course are:

• Understanding the importance of disaster recovery in the enterprise.
• Understanding how to create an enterprise disaster plan.
• Identifying strategies to develop a secure network.
• Understanding the importance of Policy and Procedure.
• Exploring virtualization technologies.
• Understanding the use of traditional and virtual technologies in disaster planning.

Duration: 40 Hours

Who Should Attend?  Cyber Security Analyst, IT Support, Administrative Managers, risk assessment administrators, penetration testers, cyber forensic investigators, venerability assessment auditors, system administrators, system engineers, firewall administrators, network managers.

Mode of Delivery: Online

IT organizations must be able to leverage new technologies. This course focuses on how organizations can effectively and efficiently assess trends and emerging SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) and security technologies. Participants will learn how to help their organization define, select, and adopt new information technologies while understanding the respective security implications. This course will introduce candidates to new directions in information systems and effective approaches for evaluating their relevance and applicability to their business environments as well as the new challenges and problems that they present, especially as they pertain to security. Candidates will learn about emerging technologies and the latest design trends in data and knowledge, networks, and applications in terms of what issues they address and in particular, how organizations can exploit them for competitive advantage.

Topics include:

• Creating a business case for emerging information technology.
• Identifying factors affecting the successful adoption of new information technologies.
• Identifying the key attributes, business benefits, risks, security implications, and cost factors of new technology.
• Knowing how to effectively use advanced search and selection metrics for identifying and selecting new technology

Describing technology trends that presently drive or are expected to drive the selection of new technologies over the next decade and providing organizational structures and frameworks that guide the enhanced adoption and capitalization related to what new technologies and approaches can offer.

This 40-hour course provides an in-depth understanding of how to effectively protect computers and computer networks. Candidates will learn the tools and penetration testing methodologies used by penetration testers. In addition, the course provides a thorough discussion of what and who a penetration tester is and how important they are in protecting corporate and government data from cyber-attacks. Candidates will learn updated computer security resources that describe new vulnerabilities and innovative methods to protect networks. Also covered is a thorough update of federal and state computer crime laws, as well as changes in penalties for illegal computer hacking.

The primary objectives of the course are to ensure candidates understand how:

• Computer systems are attacked and how to defend against those attacks.
• To analyze legal questions, ethical dilemmas, and privacy issues related to computer security.
• To use their knowledge of computer security to analyze and suggest means of securing information systems.
• To use their knowledge of computer forensics technology and laws relevant to computer-based crime to analyze various technical challenges, scenarios, and cases regarding computer crime.

Duration: 40 Hours

Who Should Attend?  Ethical hackers, penetration testers, network server administrators, firewall administrators, security testers, system administrators, and risk assessment professionals.

Mode of Delivery: Online and Blended Learning

This 24-hour course examines detailed aspects of incident response and contingency planning consisting of incident response planning, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity planning. Developing and executing plans to deal with incidents in the organization is a critical function in information security. This course focuses on the planning processes for all three areas of contingency planning, incident response, disaster recovery and business continuity, and the execution of response to human and non-human incidents in compliance with these policies.

Topics covered include:

An Overview of Information Security and Risk Management

• Planning for Organizational Readiness
• Contingency Strategies for IR/DR/BC
• Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery
• Incident Response: Detection and Decision Making
• Incident Response: Organizing and Preparing the CSIRT
• Incident Response: Response Strategies
• Incident Response: Recovery and Maintenance
• Disaster Recovery: Preparation and Implementation
• Disaster Recovery: Operation and Maintenance
• Business Continuity Planning
• Crises Management and International Standards in IR/DR/BC

Duration: 24 Hours

Who Should Attend?  Cyber Security Analyst, IT Support, Administrative Managers, risk assessment administrators, penetration testers, cyber forensic investigators, venerability assessment auditors, system administrators, system engineers, firewall administrators, network managers,

Mode of Delivery: Online

This 40-hour course offers a comprehensive guide for understanding information systems network security management. It provides an introduction to the fundamentals of network security, including compliance and operational security; threats and vulnerabilities; application, data, and host security; access control and identity management; and cryptography. The course covers new topics in network security as well, including psychological approaches to social engineering attacks, Web application attacks, penetration testing, data loss prevention, cloud computing security, and application programming development security.

Topics covered include:

• Introduction to Network Security
• Malware and Social Engineering Attacks
• Data Breaches
• Application and Networking-Based Attacks
• Host, Application, and Data Security
• Basic Cryptography
• Advanced Cryptography
• Network Security Fundamentals
• Administering a Secure Network
• Wireless Network Security
• Mobile Device Security
• Access Control Fundamentals
• Authentication and Account Management
• Business Continuity
• Risk Mitigation
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Legal, Ethical, and Organizational Factors

Duration: 40 Hours

Who should attend? System Administrators and Network Administrators as well as anyone who is interested in defensive network security technologies.

Mode of Delivery: Online and Blended Learning

For candidates interested in IT management considerations and/or becoming a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), this course, along with 4 security/auditing courses selected from the above courses, focuses on preparing experts skilled at assessing, securing and controlling strategic, tactical, and operational business and IT frameworks for an organization.

CISA Certification provides participants with a lifelong differentiator for security, IT and non-IT executives who wish to advance in their careers. This is an ideal path for those looking at a senior position in Information Systems auditing and security. This CISA course is highly recommended for IS/IT auditors, IT managers, Audit Managers, Security Managers, System Analysts, Consultants, CIOs, CTOs, and non-IT professionals.

As organizations engage in the digital transformation and focus their investments in leveraging information technology for competitive advantage and performance improvements, it is essential to understand how to effectively and efficiently manage their information technology resources. There are numerous choices to be made about managing IT resources and it is essential to ensure IT and non-IT executives across the firm work in harmony.

Experience has made it clear that firms need well-thought-out organizational structures, skills, processes, and decision rights to ensure that the decisions about how to leverage IT investments are well thought out and integrated across the enterprise. This course will help candidates understand the fundamental decisions related to the management of IT resources and the types of organizational structures, sourcing, governance, and processes that will help effectively and efficiently attain value to the enterprise. It concentrates on developing the candidates’ competency in current/emerging issues in creating and coordinating the key activities necessary to manage the day-to-day tactical and operational IT functions of an enterprise, as IT becomes ingrained in all aspects of the business.

Topics include:

• Enhancing IT-business alignment
• Strategic, Tactical, and Operational IT governance practices
• Improving IT’s key business processes
• IT organizational structure alternatives
• Demonstrating the value of IT
• Evolving role of the CIO
• Trends in sourcing/outsourcing
• Sustaining systems integration
• Managing emerging technologies and change
• Human resource and skills considerations
• Database Management

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Management Competencies

• Oracle Technical Training

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IBM Cognos Technical Training

SAP Business One & R/3

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• Deploying Data Technologies
• Management Consulting