CICRA Campus launches CEH ELITE with million-rupee benefits

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First in Sri Lanka to offer latest ethical hacking version from EC-Council

CICRA Campus Group Director and CEO Boshan Dayaratne

CICRA Campus in partnership with the EC-Council, USA has become the first training centre in Sri

Lanka to offer CEH ELITE, the latest version of globally recognised Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH) qualification.

“We are offering CEH ELITE in Sri Lanka with over one million rupees worth benefits. The benefits include CEH and CEH Practical exam vouchers, up to four CEH retake vouchers, iLabs, CEH Practice Labs, CEH exam practice and courseware,” CICRA Campus Group Director/CEO Boshan Dayaratne said.

“CEH Elite build skills of IT professionals with over 220 challenge-based, hands-on labs, and train them on ethical hacking across 20 domains in a structured setting. With the training, practitioners gain experience with over 500 unique attack techniques and learn commercial-grade hacking tools and techniques,” Dayaratne said.

“IT professionals can now practice serious ethical hacking using EC-Council’s real life like CyberQ range and set module-based practice challenges,” he added. “Passing CEH and CEH practical exams leads IT professionals to earn the CEH Master status,” he said.

CEH is the world’s number one ethical hacking certification awarded by the EC-Council, USA. With the latest version, EC-Council has upgraded the learning framework of CEH to a unique Learn, Certify, Engage and Compete Methodology for aspiring cyber professionals.

With CEH Elite, EC-Council facilitates IT professionals to engage and obtain experience by ‘hacking’ a real organisation and the opportunity to compete with hackers around the world.

For more than 15 years, EC-Council’s cybersecurity programs have empowered cybersecurity professionals around the world to exercise their training and expertise to combat cyberattacks. During a recent survey, 63% of the participants said they received a direct pay raise or promotion after attaining their CEH certification. In the United States, a CEH qualified professional can earn up to $ 130,000 for a year.

During the survey, 97% of the participants also said that the CEH program topics as directly relevant to current real-world threats; 95% of the participants also said they were being able to improve organisational security after completing the program.

CICRA Campus is Sri Lanka’s pioneering cyber security training and certification organisation. It has a longstanding partnership with the EC-Council for the past 11 years and has trained over 850 ethical hackers. Its CEH trainer is a veteran EC-Council Master Trainer and has been continuously won Circle of Excellence annual awards.

With an alumni of more than 2000, CICRA Campus cyber security portfolio includes Bachelor in Cyber Security from Deakin University, Australia and Wrexham Glyndwr University, UK, and Master of Cyber Security from Wrexham Glyndwr University. It also offers an Executive Master in Information Security from Asia E University, Malaysia.