Live.Learn.Secure. – EC-Council Foundation https://foundation.eccouncil.org A Non-Profit Organization Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:02:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 EC-Council Foundation Launches Live.Learn.Secure. A Middle and High School Cyber Security Education Program in Home School Co-Ops https://foundation.eccouncil.org/ec-council-foundation-launches-live-learn-secure-a-middle-and-high-school-cyber-security-education-program-in-home-school-co-ops/ Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:12:44 +0000 https://foundation.eccouncil.org/?p=1064

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA – November 13, 2013

With the help of DIDASKO and Cornerstone Education Co-Ops, EC-Council Foundation’s Live.Learn.Secure. program will be made available to home school students for the first time.

EC-Council Foundation is a non-profit initiative created by the founding members of EC-Council. The foundation’s goal is to help remediate cyber security safety issues for youth and adults alike through training and education. To accomplish this goal, EC-Council Foundation created the Live.Learn.Secure. program that donates cyber security course-ware to training and education facilities. To date, EC-Council Foundation has partnered with over 40 schools in the United States, as well as schools and training centers in the Philippines and Peru. By partnering with numerous education and training facilities, EC-Council Foundation hopes to get as many students as possible trained in cyber security.

The DIDASKO and Cornerstone Co-Ops will help EC-Council Foundation accomplish its goal by teaching the Certified Secure Computer User (CSCU) certification to middle and high school aged, home school students in the Ohio area. This is a first for the Foundation, as all of the Live.Learn.Secure. partners that currently teach the CSCU certification program are schools or training centers. Working with the DIDASKO and Cornerstone Co-Ops, EC-Council Foundation will create two case studies that will track the students starting knowledge on information security, train the students then assess the student’s knowledge of cyber security after completing the CSCU program. The Certified Secure Computer User (CSCU) program will train the students on basic information security topics such as: definitions of phishing attacks, virus, email hoaxes and how to stay safe while online.

In creating a case study of the two home school co-ops, EC-Council Foundation will lead the way for other home school programs to adopt the Certified Secure Computer User course-ware and training. EC-Council Foundation will use the case studies as examples on how other home school programs should teach the certification.

Jay Bavisi a Security Evangelist and the Co-Founder of EC-Council Foundation stated, “As technology continues to advance, it is important to equip our children with the knowledge they need to stay safe online, while teaching them a skill set that can be used towards job placement in the future.”

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EC-Council Foundation Announces the Live.Learn.Secure. Program to Facilitate Middle and High School Cyber Security Education https://foundation.eccouncil.org/ec-council-foundation-announces-the-live-learn-secure-program-to-facilitate-middle-and-high-school-cyber-security-education/ Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:24:12 +0000 https://foundation.eccouncil.org/?p=1072

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA – September 17, 2013

The EC-Council Foundation is taking steps to secure the global community’s digital assets by teaching children how to be safe online through the Live.Learn.Secure. program. The Live.Learn.Secure. education program consists of EC-Council’s Certified Secure Computer User certification. The certification covers the fundamental understanding of what it takes for children to protect themselves online by immersing students in an interactive environment where they learn various computer and network security threats such as: identity theft, credit card fraud, online banking, phishing scams, virus attacks and email hoaxes. In addition keeping children safe online, EC-Council Foundation hopes that the Live.Learn.Secure. education program will help create a body of knowledge that students can use to peruse a career in the cyber security field.

To help EC-Council Foundation achieve its goals of child online safety and securing the global community’s digital assets; the Foundation has partnered with Information Security Summit of Ohio to teach local children the Live.Learn.Secure. program at their training facility. The Information Security Summit Training Center will be the first training facility to partner with the Live.Learn.Secure. program, as all partners thus far have been high schools. The Information Security Summit of Ohio has already gathered 7 volunteers, to teach the program. Their names are listed below:

  • Chris Voller
  • John Dolinar
  • Bob Colombo
  • Chris Robinson
  • Gary Sheehan
  • Richard Ullom
  • Lisa Peterson

Gary Sheehan the Executive Director of Information Security Summit stated, “We are excited to begin this partnership as both organizations share a passion for education, especially when it comes educating our future cyber security professionals.”

For more information about the Information Security Summit visit InformationSecuritySummit.org. For more information about the Live.Learn.Secure. program and how to become a partner organization contact Janelle McLean Program Manager of EC-Council Foundation.

About the Information Security Summit:
Information Security Summit is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization registered in the state of Ohio. The Summit works in partnership with various security, compliance and privacy related organizations. Information Security Summit’s purpose and primary objectives are to provide quality, cost-effective training, conferencing and networking events to security, IT and audit professionals; while promoting information security education and awareness to people and organizations in the areas of cyber security, audit, governance, risk management and compliance. For more information about the Information Security Summit visit InformationSecuritySummit.org.

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EC-Council Foundation Announces Innovative Child Online Protection Initiative at the World Summit of Information Security 2012 https://foundation.eccouncil.org/ec-council-foundation-announces-innovative-child-online-protection-initiative-at-the-world-summit-of-information-security-2012/ Wed, 16 May 2012 11:09:05 +0000 https://foundation.eccouncil.org/?p=567

Geneva, Switzerland – May 16, 2012

Jay Bavisi, the President of EC-Council Foundation, a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, announced a new online competition open to every country in the world with the goal of raising awareness of information security and online safety among teenagers and adults. The announcement of the competition, dubbed the “High School Challenge”, came today while Mr. Bavisi spoke on a high-level executive panel at the World Summit of Information Security 2012, organized by the International Telecommunication Union in cooperation with UNESCO, UNCTAD, and UNDP in Geneva.

Speaking alongside Mr. Bavisi, the high-level panel consisted of the Secretary General of ITU, Dr. Hamadoun Toure; Mohd Noor Amin, Chairman of the Management Board of IMPACT; H.E. Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim, Director of General Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of U.A.E.; Honorable M. Gilbert Noel Ouedraogo, Minister of Transport of Burkina Faso; H.E. Valery Borissov, Deputy Minister of Transport and Information Technologies; and Dr. Salim Alruzaiqi, Information Technology Authority, Communications CEO of Oman.

The new online competition format was created with the intent of incorporating teens and young adults into EC-Council Foundation’s existing and groundbreaking ethical hacking competition, The Global CyberLympics.

CyberLympics has been endorsed by the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT), which is the cyber security executing arm of the United Nations’ specialized agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure, the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has officially been appointed as the Patron of the Global CyberLympics. With that appointment, Dr. Toure became the Chair of the Global CyberLympics Advisory Council (GCAC).

The Global CyberLympics is a not-for-profit initiative lead and organized by EC-Council Foundation with the goal of increasing education and ethics in information security through a series of cyber competitions that encompass forensics, ethical hacking, and defense. The “High School Challenge” is a key initiative for Global CyberLympics with the goal of fostering an environment that creates child online protection through education. The mission statement of the Global CyberLympics is “Unifying Global Cyber Defense through the Games” and last year, over 1,500 people applied to participate in the competition. The regional qualifying competitions were held at Cyber security conferences across the globe and the top two teams from each region were invited to participate in the World Finals. As travelling to the competition can prove costly and logistically complicated for children, the online “High School Challenge” will allow for great participation. As a Technology Sponsor of the games, the competitions will be powered by SAIC’s (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) CyberNEXS(TM), a live, realistic game environment that has been used for well over 150 training and competition events globally, enabling users to develop the skills to recognize and defend against cyber attacks..

The CyberLympics World Finals is scheduled on the 29 -31 October, 2012 at the Hacker Halted Conference in Miami. For more information about CyberLympics or to register, please visit: https://www.cyberlympics.org

The International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) is a member-based organization that certifies individuals in various e-business and information security skills. It is the owner and creator of the world famous Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) and EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA)/License Penetration Tester (LPT) programs, and as well as many others programs, that are offered in over 87 countries through a training network of more than 450 training partners globally and has trained over 90,000 individuals and certified more than 40,000 security professionals.

The Foundation was set up as a not for profit initiative by the founders of EC-Council to raise awareness, build capacity across nations, and ultimately promote global peace while ensuring that the global community raises its awareness for the immediate need for child online protection. One of the key initiatives of the foundation is the Global CyberLympics; a unifying body for Global Cyber Defense. Global CyberLympics is a series of cybersecurity related competitions including: Forensics, Penetration Testing, Computer Network Defense, and Capture the Flag.

The Foundation also supports select regional, national, and international high school, collegiate and professional education programs and cyber competitions. The EC-Council Foundation mission is to foster collaboration and participation by Global Digital Citizens to become advocates for safe and secure on-line activities and child online protection.

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