On January 9, 2020, the US Department of Education (DoE) invited a group of distance education universities to Washington DC to discuss cybersecurity policy. EC-Council University (ECCU) took part in the Cyber Security Stakeholders Meeting along with Walden University, Purdue Global University, University of Maryland University College, and Columbia Pacific University. The US Department of…
EC-Council University, to further its goal of higher education opportunities for all, enables leveraging the benefits of the credits transfer. The university helps students exchange their credits earned from previous institutions towards the graduate and undergraduate degree programs at EC-Council University. A study by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) found that nearly 35%…
Traditional campus learning had been the preferred mode of learning for ages. With changing educational requirements and the introduction of global education, online learning or e-learning has gained prominence. The scope of online learning is of recent origin with the impact of higher internet usage and to make global knowledge accessible from anywhere. Today, the…
A degree from EC-Council University has a lot of selling points. American higher education is highly popular with a strong emphasis on quality of education, diversity, accessibility, and independent research. The education system of America attracts nearly 16 million students enrolled in bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate programs. The figure consists of both traditional classroom and…
What do you look for when applying for a bachelor’s program? Is it an online learning methodology, a valuable certification, or other benefits from the university? Any bachelor program can offer -depth knowledge of the entire domain and prepare you with the skills required to explore the industry. But what if you get the benefit…
November 21, 2019: Today, the typical organization has hundreds if not thousands of endpoints: desktops, workstations, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, access points, printers, IP-cams, USB devices, credit card readers, POS devices, servers, cloud VMs, and virtual desktops. The addition of IoT devices will increase the number of endpoints even more. Traditional anti-malware, signature-based, and file-scanning…
More often than not, we hear about huge data breach, with millions of records being stolen, costing businesses ́huge amounts of money. The biggest one to date is the 2013 cyberattack on Yahoo, which affected 1 billion accounts. You would think an IT giant such as Yahoo would have some of the strongest data protection…
EC-Council University has been granted accreditation for another five years by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) EC-Council University has been accredited by Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) since 2015 . According to EC-Council University, the school submitted a “Self Evaluation Report” as part of the accreditation process. The report and its accompanying documents represented…
Top cybersecurity universities are offering degree programs for information security professionals to advance their careers. Obtaining a bachelor’s or master’s degree may seem like a daunting thought but serves a greater purpose when it comes to your career goals. The diverse curriculum offered by different universities makes it difficult for students to decide how to…
The article concludes the series of ‘Growing Cybersecurity Threats’. We shall now explain the most common, non-technical type of cyber threat, i.e., Brute Force. While defining cyber threats, brute force attacks can be explained as repetitive successive attempts of trying various password combinations to gain access. The attacker performs this attempt vigorously. They install bots…