Network Administration Training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues

This instructor-led, live training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level network professionals seeking to effectively manage and operate SD-WAN networks, covering design, configuration, troubleshooting, and optimisation.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the core concepts, benefits, and challenges associated with SD-WAN technologies.
• Design an SD-WAN architecture customised to organisational requirements and deploy SD-WAN solutions efficiently.
• Implement and manage security features within an SD-WAN environment.
• Monitor, manage, and troubleshoot SD-WAN ecosystems.

Matrix is an open protocol for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. Organizations are increasingly adopting Matrix with the Element client as an alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams to maintain end-to-end encryption, on-premise data residency, and federation with external trusted partners.

This instructor-led, live training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues (available online or onsite) is designed for network and system administrators aiming to implement enterprise-grade network monitoring using open-source tools without reliance on specific vendors.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to deploy LibreNMS and Zabbix, monitor network devices, create dashboards and alerts, implement distributed monitoring setups, and integrate with external systems.

In this instructor-led live training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues (online or onsite), participants will learn how to use ONAP to automate networking services.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand, install, and configure the various components within the ONAP ecosystem.
• Execute real-time, policy-driven orchestration and automation for physical and virtual network functions.
• Design, create, orchestrate, and monitor VNFs, SDNs, and other network services.
• Efficiently manage the entire networking lifecycle using a software-driven approach.
• Develop, deploy, and scale networks using the latest open-source technologies and practices.

The course "Computer Network Security – How to Protect Your Services" introduces mechanisms and services that secure modern network solutions. It covers the basics of ensuring data confidentiality and integrity, the application of encryption, certificates, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and secure password storage. The course also discusses network security protocols and services, security systems, wireless network protection, inter-branch connectivity, and security testing through penetration testing, network scanning, and vulnerability detection.

Synapse serves as the reference homeserver implementation for the Matrix protocol, enabling decentralized and end-to-end encrypted messaging. This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) targets intermediate DevOps engineers and system administrators who wish to use Synapse and Element to transition from cloud chat platforms to a self-hosted, federated messaging infrastructure.

Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use, self-hosted monitoring tool that tracks the availability of websites, services, and infrastructure. It acts as a replacement for Pingdom, Datadog Synthetics, and UptimeRobot for teams desiring control over their monitoring data. This instructor-led live training (online or onsite) targets beginner-to-intermediate SREs and DevOps engineers who wish to utilize Uptime Kuma to replace cloud uptime monitoring with a self-hosted, sovereign status tracking platform.

OpenVPN and WireGuard are the premier open-source VPN protocols. By self-hosting your VPN server, you ensure that no third-party vendor can log traffic metadata, insert ads, or comply with foreign data inquiries. This training explores both protocols, catering to distinct threat models and performance criteria.

Wazuh is an open-source security platform offering unified XDR and SIEM capabilities for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response, and compliance. It consolidates endpoint telemetry into a self-managed analysis engine, serving as a viable alternative to Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, and other cloud-native SIEMs.