Courses

Explore the fascinating intersection of science and domestic life in this 56-minute Christmas lecture from The Royal Institution, where Professor Gareth Roberts examines the major scientific inventions and innovations that have transformed our homes. Discover the technological bridges that brought laboratory discoveries into everyday appliances, with particular focus on the microwave oven as an example of how technology originally developed for other purposes revolutionized food preparation through speed and convenience. Learn about the historical importance of light in social development, from Michael Faraday's candle allowance in 1813 to the parallel inventions of Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan that created the incandescent lamp over a century ago. Understand why this relatively inefficient lighting technology still predominates today and explore the exciting developments in silicon micro-electronic circuits that promise to change domestic lighting. Gain insights into how the combination of scientific progress and market demands has created numerous innovative products, while discovering the emerging ideas from industrial and academic laboratories that were poised to transform homes in the following decade, all presented as part of "The Home of the Future" lecture series examining the impact of modern electronics, materials, and communications technology on domestic life.

Discover how to build efficient Go appliances for the Raspberry Pi using gokrazy in this 56-minute conference talk. Learn to downsize your homelab setup, program custom solutions for home automation or children's toys, and simplify the process of running Go software on Raspberry Pi. Explore gokrazy, an appliance platform written entirely in Go that eliminates the need for maintaining a separate Linux distribution. Follow along as the speaker demonstrates the process from initial setup to running a functional appliance, showcasing various use cases including home automation, document scanning to cloud or PC, and setting up a Tailscale mesh network. Get inspired to repurpose your old Raspberry Pi and leverage the power of Go programming for practical applications.

Explore comprehensive virtual appliance detection techniques in this 54-minute Black Hat conference talk. Learn about the virtualization world, differences between virtual machines and appliances, and the importance of detecting virtual appliances. Dive into various detection methods, including resolution-based techniques, HTML5 feature support analysis, and 3D performance observations. Gain insights into practical scenarios and examine sample outputs using SWbemLocator Processor for effective virtual appliance identification.

Learn how to build a comprehensive self-hosting infrastructure using Linux and Go programming language in this 55-minute conference talk. Discover how to leverage Go for running an entire home setup, from home automation to single-purpose appliances using the gokrazy appliance platform on Raspberry Pi devices. Explore the implementation of private web services on mini PC servers and understand how to create a powerful 25 Gbit/s FTTH internet router capable of serving websites. Gain insights into the evolution of self-hosting over the past decade, including the advantages of increased control and stability compared to commercial offerings. Examine both custom-developed solutions like the gokrazy.org appliance platform for Raspberry Pis and PCs, as well as standard solutions including Caddy web server and CoreDNS server configuration. Understand the practical considerations of what works well in modern self-hosting environments and learn from real-world experience in migrating between self-hosted and commercial services.

Learn to diagnose and repair Jura coffee machines experiencing error codes 1 through 4 through a detailed 24-minute repair tutorial. Follow along as a Jura S8 model displaying error code 2 is completely disassembled, troubleshot, repaired, and reassembled using standard procedures and basic tools. Discover cost-effective home repair solutions for common issues that typically require expensive professional service, with step-by-step guidance on using specialized coffee machine repair tools, hex and Torx sets, multimeters for continuity testing, and thermal block temperature sensor replacement. Master the techniques needed to restore functionality to automatic coffee machines that are only a few years old, potentially saving significant repair costs while gaining valuable appliance repair skills.

Explore the world of virtual appliance security in this 51-minute conference talk from Derbycon 2015. Delve into the intricacies of hacking virtual appliances, covering topics such as command injection, filesystem analysis, undocumented accounts, and silent patches. Learn about format string bugs, SUID binaries, and bootloader access vulnerabilities. Gain insights into vendor communication, disclosure timelines, and recommendations for improving security. Discover defensive strategies and contemplate esoteric thoughts on the evolving landscape of virtual appliance vulnerabilities.

Explore the inner workings of security appliances in this 49-minute conference talk from TROOPERS18. Delve into the architecture, complexity, and implementation of various security solutions, including FireCheckpoint, Squirrel Mail, and EXLock. Gain key insights on how security is implemented in appliances and cloud environments, and understand the relevance and marketing behind these products. Learn about the challenges and complexities involved in designing and maintaining security appliances, and draw important conclusions about their effectiveness in modern cybersecurity landscapes.

This recording from an open mic event that was hosted by the Technical Support team demonstrates how to manage appliance clusters on IBM Security Verify Access.

Explore a comprehensive review of network firewall appliances in this 1-hour 22-minute conference talk from Black Hat USA 1999. Delve into the world of the "new breed" of network security devices, examining their claims of "plug and play" and "zero maintenance" capabilities. Gain insights from Brent Huston, an experienced information security consultant, as he presents a feature-by-feature examination of these appliances, discusses vendor claims, and shares results from real-world tests conducted on nearly two dozen devices. Learn about the potential benefits and limitations of these security appliances, and understand their impact on network administration. Discover valuable information to help evaluate the effectiveness of appliance firewalls in protecting your network infrastructure.

Properly securing your network and devices is a critical security posture, and the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Appliance is designed to do just that. This course will teach you how to configure the FTD appliance to ensure your network is secure. If the management plane of a Cisco FTD appliance is not properly secured, it exposes the device to attacks. In this course, Cisco Core Security: Network Security with Cisco Firepower, you will gain the ability to properly secure all of your organization’s FTD appliances. First, you will learn how to secure management access to the device. Next, you will discover how to leverage Cisco ISE to provide centralized device management. Finally, you will explore how to use Cisco’s Firepower Management Center to automate management functions across multiple FTDs. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of management plane hardening needed to secure your FTD appliances.

Explore the science and inventions that have revolutionized home safety, strength, and security in this 1988 Christmas Lecture from The Royal Institution. Discover how architects and civil engineers use codes of practice for foundations, materials, and weight distribution while accounting for natural structural resonance. Learn about the development of float glass production systems that made large-area, high-quality strengthened glass available at competitive costs, including surface coatings and sealed double-glazing units that regulate visible and thermal radiation. Examine cutting-edge research into active "smart" windows with transparency controlled by electronic pulses applied to electrochromic glass coatings. Investigate the diverse applications of glass in homes, from cooking utensils and lighting systems to television screens and decorative elements. Trace the evolution of building access systems from the mass-produced Yale key invented in 1850 (based on ancient Egyptian lock principles) to sophisticated modern physical access control methods. Understand how increased security demands have driven advances in fire protection, article protection, and intruder detection research, presented by Professor Gareth Roberts of Thorn EMI plc and the University of Oxford as part of "The Home of the Future" lecture series.

Explore the principles and applications of DPDK thash library in this technical presentation from industry experts at Huawei Ireland Research Centre and Intel. Gain insights into the core concepts driving this technology and discover its practical applications in network environments. Learn how the library integrates with user-space network stacks like F-stack to enhance performance and scalability for outgoing TCP connections. Examine real-world use cases of network appliances and understand potential future developments in the technology. Master the implementation strategies and discover various usage scenarios that can benefit from DPDK thash capabilities.

Learn advanced threat hunting techniques for detecting persistent threats in appliance environments through this 22-minute conference talk from fwd:cloudsec. Explore how malicious actors exploit vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to maintain long-term access to target systems, particularly in appliance environments where administrators lack direct file system access. Discover how cloud environments provide unique advantages for collecting metadata at scale across diverse products, including appliances. Examine two real-world case studies demonstrating the use of extensive metadata analysis to uncover previously undetected threats. Master practical approaches for leveraging cloud-based metadata collection to enhance security detection capabilities in traditionally hard-to-monitor systems. Gain insights into collaborative strategies for strengthening defenses across appliance environments and understand how metadata analysis can significantly improve threat detection and remediation efforts.

Explore network appliances essential for the CompTIA Network+ exam [N10-009] in this 22-minute video. Dive into the distinctions between routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and other crucial networking components. Gain insights into physical appliances, including routers, firewalls, IDS, load balancers, proxies, SANs, wireless access points, and controllers. Examine the roles of CDN, VPN, Quality of Service, and Time to Live in network infrastructure. Investigate appliance applications and functions, with a focus on security aspects. Access additional resources for hands-on lab courses and IT certification guides to further enhance your networking knowledge.

This course will prepare you for the SMB Jump Start exam, #156-413, at Pearson Vue. https://home.pearsonvue.com/checkpoint. The exam can be found in the Online Exam Catalog [see View Online Exams | Accreditation (un-Proctored)]. Check Point's Small and Medium Business (SMB) Appliances are high performance, integrated devices offering optional WiFi and LTE support. Standard Check Point Network Security features such as Firewall, VPN, Anti-Virus, Application Control, URL Filtering, Email Security, and SandBlast Zero-Day Protection are supported. This course introduces you to Check Point's Small and Medium Business (SMB) network security appliances. You will learn how to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor network security policy on the SMB appliance platform. When you complete this course, you will understand the features and functionality of the current Small / Medium Business (SMB) product, as well as the procedures for installing, upgrading, and maintaining the SMB appliance. In addition, this course will teach you how to configure and view network traffic and threat prevention log data, as well as how to monitor your SMB deployment. Other important concepts are covered, such as configuring clustering for high availability, enabling SSL inspection, and the process for enabling Virtual Private Networks for remote users and remote sites. Upon completion of this course, you will be prepared to deploy, configure, and administrate a Check Point Small/Medium Business Network Security appliance. This course includes these modules: Introduction What's New Standalone Deployment Logging and Monitoring Features and Functionality Clustering HTTPS-SSL Inspection Central Management Threat Emulation Security Management Portal Zero Touch and Reach My Device VPN and Certificates Watchtower Mobile App VoIP DDOS Cloud Services and SD-WAN API Troubleshooting Who is this course for? This course is suitable for new Check Point customers with no prior experience configuring or administrating Check Point Network Security products.

Learn about the next-generation Multi Headed Composable Memory Appliance (MHCMA) architecture in this 20-minute conference talk from the Open Compute Project. Discover the evolution from the initial FPGA-based Composable Memory Appliance (CMA) that supported up to 2 x16 PCIe-Gen5 CXL1.1 Host ports per blade and 8 blades per 19" shelf CXL Fabric Managed Composable Pooled Memory Appliance to the proposed second-generation design. Explore the advanced architecture utilizing next-generation 12nm ASIC devices capable of supporting up to 8 x8 PCIe-Gen5 CXL2.0 Host Ports per blade with up to 8 blades per 2U OCP Pooled and/or Shared CXL Fabric Managed MHCMA Chassis architecture. Gain insights into the current Plan of Record (POR) and understand opportunities for collaboration under the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) as presented by Mohamad El-Batal, Technologist at Seagate, and Hongjian Fan, Electrical Engineer at Seagate.

In this series of tutorials, we'll learn how to draw and position furniture and fixture symbols throughout a floor plan. We'll begin our project with a floor plan that only includes walls, windows and doors. Software required: AutoCAD 2014. In this series of tutorials, we'll learn how to draw and position furniture and fixture symbols throughout a floor plan. We'll begin our project with a floor plan that only includes walls, windows and doors. Our objective will be to populate the kitchen by creating the furniture, fixtures, and appliances that help support all the functions of that space. We'll learn how to use Polylines and number of commands like Offset, Trim, and Copy to create each symbol. Once the symbols are created we'll learn how to create a symbols library so that you can access and reuse the symbols you've just created, saving you a ton of time in your workflow for future projects. By the end of this training, you'll have a solid understanding of how to draw and manipulate basic geometry, create professional-looking symbols and blocks, and also manage your layers. Software required: AutoCAD 2014.

Build up your network security knowledge by learning how to use the no. 1 UTM Appliance available What you'll learn: Install a Fortigate UTMUnderstand the functioning of the UTM deviceConfigure basic parameters of the deviceCreate policies for trafficCreate objects and work with virtual IPsLearn to configure users on the deviceConfigure logs and additional logging parametersCreate VPN connectionsCreate and use web filters for trafficCreate antivirus and application filtersGet to know the new version of FortiOS, namely 5.4Perform device recovery and use additional toolsDeploy Fortinet Wifi Access Points and use the FortiOS Wifi Controller Understand and use the Transparent ModeUnderstand VDOMsDeploy the Fortinet Single Sign-on solutionConfigure and deploy SSL VPNs and portalsCreate Site-to-Site VPN TunnelsUnderstand and use the Data Leak Prevention function *** Course updated with new information and new activities! See below!*** Today we live in a world where network and cyber security are two of the most important subjects. Everyone is talking about them, about how to protect the network and how to protect end-users against malicious attackers. Network security is one of the big trends with unparalleled growth, because the number and severity of attacks in increasing everyday. Businesses all around the globe are finding out the hard way that if you are not paying attention to how you secure your IT infrastructure, you stand to lose not only huge amounts of money, but also you can lose your reputation. This course covers one of the best tools you can deploy in your fight against IT threats, namely the Fortigate UTM and how you can use this tool to take control of your network while assuring that you are protected. You will learn how the Fortigate UTM works, how to configure it and adapt it to your business, how to protect your users with it along with your network and how to prevent incidents from the inside of your network. You also have powerful reporting available within the device. By the end of this course you will be able to transform your network security with a very powerful device and have the solid skills that you can use in the future to expand your knowledge. *** Course Updated - 30.12.2016 *** In the update you will find lessons regarding the FortiOS 5.4 Update, recovery procedure and productivity tools, Wifi deplayment with Fortinet Wifi Access Points, Transparent Mode, Virtual Domains, Single Sign-On, SSL VPN, Site-To-Site VPN, Data Leak Prevention, E-mail Filtering and Intrusion Prevention

Watch a comprehensive shoe repair video showcasing multiple projects, including resoling motocross boots, shampooing and re-heeling pirate slippers with premium leather, and working on Rockport and cowboy boots. Learn about various repair techniques such as foam sole application, stretching, and finishing as the cobbler demonstrates their skills on a variety of footwear.

Discover a fresh perspective on homework in this 15-minute TEDx talk by Ogechukwu Ebi, a certified educator and founder of Sylace Diction and Public Speaking Hub. Explore Ebi's innovative concept of transforming traditional "home work" into "home fun," as she shares her insights on what she considers an overlooked requirement for success. Learn from her extensive experience in facilitating diction and elocution in schools, as well as training company staff on etiquette, ethics, and professional conduct. Gain valuable knowledge from this captivating speaker, who combines her expertise in education with her background in Parasitology and Entomology to deliver a unique and engaging presentation on reimagining the role of homework in education and personal growth.