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EC-Council Launches Advanced Security Training Series across Asia
September 2011 by Marc Jacob
With escalating cyber incidents and threats being reported over the past months, and the increasing demand for more technically competent professionals to defend the cyberspace, EC-Council Asia Pacific announced that it is launching the first CAST "Live" Asia Roadshow. This series will bring two highly advanced and technical three-day CAST workshops across Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand.
The Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST) was developed to provide highly technical and advanced security training to IT security professionals, to address the rapid evolution of new threats, vulnerabilities and exploits. CAST programs are designed to be domain-specific and focused, with greater emphasis on hands-on lab exercises, so as to enable participants to experience combating real life scenarios.
According to Wilson Wong, Managing Director EC-Council Asia Pacific, CAST "Live" Asia Roadshow will give infosec professionals the opportunity to learn from some of the best industry practitioners, and acquire cutting edge skills and knowledge, in order to be technically proficient and to stay one step ahead of cyber criminals."
The two programs that will be featured during this roadshow are the Advanced Network Defense (CAST 614) and the Cryptography Deep Dive (CAST 615).
The Advanced Network Defense program focuses on the paradigm of thinking like a hacker in order to defend against threats with an offensive mindset by learning how to build robust infrastructure in the face of sophisticated attacks. This workshop will be led by Kevin Cardwell, who spent 22 years in the U.S. Navy, and had tested and evaluated Surveillance and Weapon system software. He worked as both software and systems engineer on various US Department of Defense projects, and was selected to head the team that built a Network Operations Center (NOC) that provided services to the commands ashore and ships at sea in the Norwegian Sea and Atlantic Ocean. He served as the Leading Chief Information Security Officer at the NOC for six years before hanging up his hat from the U.S Navy. During this time he was the leader of a five-person Red Team that had a 100% success rate at compromising systems and networks.
Cryptography Deep Dive is designed to further enhance the understanding of cryptography and how it’s used in modern systems, from SSL-based e-commerce, online banking, to hard drive and e-mail encryption and at the same time learn crypt analytical techniques for breaking cryptographic protocols.Some causes of recent reported breaches such as the RSA and Epsilon incidents are due to poor cryptography practices. The workshop is led by Chuck Easttom, author of 11 computer science books, one of which had been translated into several languages. Chuck is also the inventor of a method for quantifying network security that is being taught at several universities, and most recently has developed a new approach to creating ghost drives. He has taught various security related courses for several years and has over 10 years of teaching experience. Chuck has 7 provisional patents, all related to computer science and 4 related to computer security. One of those patents regards a new method of steganography, another regards a new approach to detecting spyware, and yet another involves the invention of a new, more stable file system.
In addition, EC-Council Academy has arranged for two special online live training sessions that will allow interested participants to experience first hand excerpts of the said training. These sessions will be held on September 14th and 15th.
