Hacker Halted is EC-Council’s annual IT Security Conference and plays host to over 50 speakers delivering ground breaking presentations! Hacker Halted builds on the educational foundation of EC-Councils courses in ethical hacking, computer forensics, pen testing, and many others. Hacker Halted brings the industry’s leading researchers, practitioners, ethical hackers and other top IT Security professionals together to discuss curren...

Like a good horror film – a talented hacker will take their time building the attack. No jump scares here – just slow and methodical. Recon, probing, reverse engineering and writing exploits – the malicious hacker builds tension and anxiety as they find a small way in, establish a presence and expand – filing your network with their malevolence, The malicious actors in the center of these webs aren’t automated to...

As you continue down the path of VM maturity, you will undoubtedly find that manual VM workflows are bottlenecks preventing your program from scaling and moving quickly enough to meet your objectives. You might even consider building your own VM platform internally to automate some of these bottlenecks. Let us stop you right there. We’ve seen it a million times. Proprietary in-house software, or homegrown vulnerability management solutio...

Working remotely has become the new normal. This, and many other changes organizations adopted last year in response to the pandemic are likely to stay for the long term. According to Gallup, about two-thirds of U.S. remote workers want to continue to work remotely. So, how can organizations continue to support their growing distributed workforce at a time where reports of security threats have increased by 400% compared to pre-pandemic levels...

Phishing and ransomware attacks continue to rise, according to Proofpoint’s State of the Phish report for 2020. Organizations in the U.S. are at risk, the increase in remote work due to the pandemic has fueled a spike in attacks, and phishing attempts are up by 14 percent compared to the previous year.Email continues to be the number 1 delivery vehicle, but other social engineering schemes that rely on social media, voicemail (“vis...

OH FOR THE SIMPLE DAYS OF PIRACY! Though we like to have fun and play-act like the pirates in “Pirates of the Caribbean” or the Dread pirate Roberts in “The Princess Bride,” in reality, piracy has been troublesome and deadly since the dawn of civilization. Now one pirate, or the group he represents, can cause a billion-dollar data breach, take down an entire municipal government with well-placed ransomware, or weaponize...

Training Dates: October 5th - 8th Confrences Dates: October 9th - 10th The goal of the conference is to bring the IT security community together to discuss how organizations are often compromised through the smallest of mistakes​ and how implementing effective changes can have ripple effects throughout all departments of an organization. Training Courses Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI) V8 Cert...

TAKEDOWNCON: CAPITAL REGION 2015 TakeDownCon, Hacking and IT Security Conference, is a highly technical forum that focuses on the latest vulnerabilities, the most potent exploits, and the current security threats. The best and the brightest in the field come to share their knowledge, giving delegates the opportunity to learn about the industry’s most important issues. With two days and two dynamic tracks, delegates will spend Day 1 on th...

NEW DATE! EC-Council’s CCISO Program has certified leading information security professionals around the world. A core group of high-level information security executives, the CCISO Advisory Board, contributed by forming the foundation of the program and outlining the content that would be covered by the exam, body of knowledge, and training. Some members of the Board contributed as authors, others as exam writers, others as quality assu...

When the Zombie Apocalypse comes, Ethical Hackers will save the world. In this world of “Super Storms” its not hard to look back and recall Tornadoes in Huntsville or Oklahoma, Hurricane Katrina, Typhoons in the Philippines, Floods in India and Mexico, the earthquake in Haiti and most recently, the deep freeze that has engulfed the US from Michigan to Georgia. The list goes on and on, and as we become more reliant on technology we...