Mitigating Information Security Threats of Olympic Proportions with EC- Council Certifications

Do you think defending your company’s network security from attacks is a full-time job? Do you think you know what best is, for maintaining the integrity of your company’s security, and you use the most innovative technology to mitigate the same? Well, then you need to know more about the security parameters that were asked for in Olympics 2012 London. Recently in London Olympics preparation, it was asked to put together a team of IT security professionals, mostly those who were exceptionally skilled to monitor and protect one of the largest networks of all time and most publicly watched event in the world - 2012 Olympic Games in London.Recruiting professionals in such kind of big projects, IT security training and certification holders are considered vital. Professionals with CSCU Training and Certification (basic), CEH v8 Certification holders and other EC-Council Certification holders and skilled professionals are always given more priority.With technology changed through times from last Olympic happened in 2008 to 2012, the world of technology has dramatically evolved. With the sophistication of the Malware and Security threats and the proliferation of the new devices (once such device is iPod), the security steps to mitigate threats has to be the most updated one and innovative.Some of the security threats that they dealt with were daily ‘hacktivism’ campaigns, 212 million malicious connection attempts blocked and one attack with 11,000 malicious web requests per second. These were all performed (defend and detected) and remedied in real time. IT security professionals, in such situations (or projects) cannot just sit back and hope that the defense control they had in future will work aptly for the current event. Information security domain is swiftly evolving and so do the industry requirement of the IT professionals. EC-Council Certifications are widely accepted in the IT industry offering wide range of information security technology to the professionals.EC-Council Certifications such as - CSCU Certification, CEH v8 Certification, CHFI, ENSA and many others validates professionals’ skills in various innovative and cutting-edge information security domains. EC-Council focuses on current issues and needs of the industry while developing latest certifications and modules including lab sessions.Some of the EC-Council Training and Certification programs that makes you future ready:•    CSCU Boot camp Training Program•    CEH v8 Training and Certification Program •    CHFI Computer Hacking Forensic Investigation •    LPT Licensed Penetration Tester/ ECSA EC-Council Certified Security Analyst •    ENSA EC-Council Certified Network Security Administrator