The digital transformation of businesses involving an enormous range of devices for various functions such as data collection, storage, integration, management, and computing, has raised alarming

information and data security concerns in all industry sectors. This, in turn, has accelerated the demand for security professionals having expertise in addressing the organizational security needs.

Research shows that the IT and all business sectors would face a shortage of 1.8 million skilled cybersecurity professionals by 2020. Organizations are striving to hire cybersecurity

professionals and investing hugely to get their existing IT security workforce on the most recent technologies, tools, and techniques to stay abreast in dealing with potential cyber threats and

attacks effectively.

EC-Council’s Certified Network Defender (CND) is a comprehensive network security certification extensively designed in view to help to aspire and currently employed security professionals with

the utmost skills required to understand, assess, monitor, and manage the information security architectures in the organizations. The CND curriculum focuses on instilling technical know-how of the network

security technologies in addition to protecting, detecting, and responding to various network security concerns. This skills-based, hands-on exposure equipped certification training has been

designed considering multiple job roles and responsibilities executed by the security professionals, and system/network administrators in the Department of Defense (DoD).