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EC-Council Warns of Cyber Plague at United States National Security Agency ColloquiumMobile, AL, Jun 12, 2013 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) -- Jay Bavisi, president of EC-Council, warned thought-leaders from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the finest academic minds of the NSA's centers of academic excellence of the worsening Cyber Plague at the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE Colloquium). The event was hosted by the University of South Alabama in Mobile Bay on June 10, 2013. The CISSE Colloquium was created in 1997 to provide a forum for dialogue among leading figures in government, industry, and academia. The Colloquium, one of the largest gatherings of academics, government, and industry, is led by Dr. William Maconachy, a former Director of the NSA and the current Director of Academic Affairs of Capitol College. Bavisi's keynote address, entitled "The Cyber Security Quagmire: Finding the Panacea", aimed to elucidate the information security industry's successes, failures, and future out-of-the-box solutions that can be implemented, using the pharmaceutical industry's fight against diseases as a model. As the co-founder and President of one of the largest IT Security certification bodies in the world, EC-Council, and the co-creator of the groundbreaking Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification that launched ethical hacking as a mainstream career, Bavisi lent an interesting perspective to the event. Bavisi said, "We have unknowingly followed on the same path as the pharma industry. We quarantined our networks from attacks via firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and intrusion prevention systems. When this was insufficient, we introduced cyber hygiene by introducing security awareness programs, which introduced policies, processes, and controls." Bavisi went on to say that the next step should be a cyber-vaccine in order to propel the world's organizations into a more secure future. Bavisi continued by linking the results of a recent secure coding competition conducted in India with nearly five thousand participants, Code Uncode, to the continuing plague of insecurity. Findings from the Code Uncode competition decisively prove there is a serious lack of knowledge in secure coding practices that could be a causative source of security breaches around the world. The Colloquium is active throughout the year and holds an annual conference in June. Conference information is available on the Colloquium website at http://www.cisse.info. The Colloquium board consists of members such as Brenda Oldfield, formerly the Director of the National Cyber Security Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; William Maconachy, PhD and former deputy senior computer science authority at the National Security Agency (NSA); as well as Daniel P Shoemaker, PhD, and Principal Investigator and Senior Research Scientist at UDM's Center for Cyber Security and Intelligence Studies. About EC-Council The International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) is a member-based organization that certifies individuals in various e-business and security skills. EC Council is the owner and developer of the world-famous E-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (C|HFI), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA), License Penetration Tester (LPT) programs, and various others offered in over 60 countries around the globe. These certifications are recognized worldwide and have received endorsements from various government agencies including the US Federal Government via the Montgomery GI Bill, and the US Government National Security Agency (NSA) and the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) certifying EC-Council's Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH), Network Security Administrator (ENSA), Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI), Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP), Certified Security Analyst (E|CSA) and Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT) program for meeting the 4011, 4012, 4013A, 4014, 4015 and 4016 training standards for information security professionals and most recently EC-Council has received accreditation from the American National standards Institute (ANSI). For more information about EC-Council, please visit http://www.eccouncil.org. Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/ECCouncil/JayBavisi/prweb10824784.htm PRWeb.com |