CAE EPNC

Intrusion Detection for Cybersecurity
2020-06-22 - 2020-06-26
This course is organized through Madison Area Technical College. Please email Ken McCullough to register. Registration deadline is June 17, 2020.

NOTE: This class will be broadcast live via WebEx – attendees should expect to login in to the class and participate at the times scheduled.
Description: This session will provide an overview of the tools and techniques commonly used for detecting threats to an enterprise infrastructure. Implement strategies for documenting and reporting detected events based on industry standard compliance frameworks. We will use the Security Onion distribution. Tools include Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK/Elastic Stack), Wazuh, Snort, Zeek, Wireshark, and TCP Dump. On the final day we will be doing a capture the FLAG event in the Cyber range.
Prerequisite: Basic understanding of Linux operating system.

Instructor: Mike Masino has been an Information Technology instructor at Madison Area Technical College since 2004. Mike has eleven years of experience previously working first as an integrated control systems developer and later as systems Administrator for the University of Wisconsin Extension. Mike holds an Associate in Applied Science degree in Electronics Engineering, as well as Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Science. Mike’s industry certifications include: Microsoft: MCSE, MCP + I (Win NT 4.0/ Win2000) / Cisco: CCNA, CCAI / CompTIA: A+. Security+, Network + / SANS: GCIH, GCFA, GCIA (current member of GIAC advisory board)

CCNA 2 Instructor Certification (CCSI) for Teachers / CCNAv7 Switching, Routing and Wireless Essentials (SRWE)
2020-06-15 - 2020-06-19
This course is organized through Madison Area Technical College. Please email Ken McCullough to register. Registration deadline is June 10, 2020.

NOTE: This class will be broadcast live via WebEx – attendees should expect to login in to the class and participate at the times scheduled.
Description: The second course in the CCNA curriculum focuses on switching technologies and router operations that support small-to-medium business networks and includes wireless local area networks (WLANs) and security concepts. Students learn key switching and routing concepts. They can perform basic network configuration and troubleshooting, identify and mitigate LAN security threats, and configure and secure a basic WLAN.
This class will cover some new topics that were not part of the previous CCNA curriculum, so it is recommended even for those people that have prior NetAcad experience.
Prerequisite: Concepts covered in CCNA 1 classes or prior networking experience.

CCNA 1 Instructor Certification (CCSI) for Teachers / CCNAv7 Introduction to Networks
2020-06-08 - 2020-06-12
This course is organized through Madison Area Technical College. Please email Ken McCullough to register. Registration deadline is June 3, 2020.

NOTE: This class will be broadcast live via WebEx – attendees should expect to login in to the class and participate at the times scheduled.
Description: The first course in the CCNA curriculum introduces the architectures, models, protocols, and networking elements that connect users, devices, applications and data through the internet and across modern computer networks – including IP addressing and Ethernet fundamentals. By the end of the course, students can build simple local area networks (LANs) that integrate IP addressing schemes, foundational network security, and perform basic configurations for routers and switches.
Instructors with prior NetAcad Cisco 1 experience are not required to take this class again, unless they want to see what the new format looks like.
Prerequisite: Working knowledge of computers.

AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
2020-06-01 - 2020-06-05
This course is organized through Madison Area Technical College. Please email Ken McCullough to register. Registration deadline is May 25, 2020.

NOTE: This class will be broadcast live via WebEx – attendees should expect to login in to the class and participate at the times scheduled.
Description: This is a 5-day remote access class with additional lab practice and certification prep the second week with the instructor available for questions. The AWS Academy Cloud Foundations course is intended for instructors who seek an overall understanding of cloud computing concepts, independent of specific technical teaching area. In addition to a detailed overview of cloud concepts there is specific coverage of all AWS core services, security, architecture, pricing and support. A number of hands-on labs in the actual AWS environment will be utilized throughout the course.
This course provides the foundational knowledge needed to take the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification exam and includes a voucher to save on the exam fee.
Prerequisite: Basic Windows and Linux operating system knowledge. Understanding of networking fundamentals.

Instructor: Curt Chambers has been at Madison College since 2010 in both support and teaching roles within the Dept. of Information Technology. Previously he worked for 13 years in roles ranging from CTO to VP of Operations for a Madison based stock photography company now owned by Getty Images.
