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EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification is now included in the HKMA Cyber Fortification Initiative (CFI) 2.0 program. This is a testament on the efficacy, quality and credibility of the CEH program, attributes serving the needs of financial services’ providers in Hong Kong and globally.
HKMA, the de facto central bank of Hong Kong, introduced the CFI initiative with the aim to raise the cyber resilience of Hong Kong’s banking system.
The initiative is underpinned by three pillars: the Cyber Resilience Assessment Framework (C-RAF), the Professional Development Programme (PDP), and the Cyber Intelligence Sharing Platform (CISP).
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Tim Keeler, co-founder and CEO, Remediant
The SolarWinds supply chain attack is another example of the damage that lateral movement by system intruders can cause. Tim Keeler of Remediant says detecting lateral movement is challenging because of the size of today’s systems and the difficulty of filtering bad behavior from benign behavior in remote work environments. How do I know whether this is just an admin doing their regular activity, versus someone using those credentials in a malicious manner to get access to other systems? Because if you re dealing with an environment that s one or 200,000 systems, it s really hard to scale this out,” Keeler says. “And how do you actually discern and understand what is malicious and what is just your day-to-day behavior?”
In a major development, Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) has accelerated the program for training and certification of IT graduates and professionals
Trainings & Certifications Program for IT professionals receives major boost
January 17, 2021
In a major development, Pakistan Software Export Board has accelerated the program for training and certification of IT graduates and professionals in latest technologies. 6,000 graduates and professionals would be trained under this program between Year 2021-23.
This boost comes in the wake of strong IT Industry growth, IT & IT enabled Services (ITeS) export remittances comprising of computer services and call center services have surged to US $648.940 million at a growth rate of 38.16% during July-November of FY 2020-21, in comparison to US $469.713 million during July-November of FY 2019-20. The growth has exacerbated shortage of qualified manpower for IT industry. As IT Industry’s main capital is qualified manpower and without a strong, qualified manpower base, Pakistan’s IT Industry’s growth momentum cannot be sustained.
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“EC-Council partnership supports our mission in setting work-based
education at the forefront of Australia and the world’s Skills
Development,” says Kareem Mostafa, Schollege’s Founder.
Wissenled the partnership agreement, to bring EC-Council cybersecurity
certifications to the students at Schollege. The partnership will
benefit the students by earning specialised cybersecurity skills on
discounted prices which eventually will help acquire leading positions
in the growing cybersecurity industry.
About EC-Council
EC-Council has been the world’s leading information security certification body
since the launch of its flagship program, Certified Ethical Hacker
(CEH), which created the ethical hacking industry in 2002. Since the