EC-Council Certified Network Defender

The new CND credential developed by the EC-Council, the certification body that created and owns the acclaimed Certified Ethnical Hack certification, enables network administrators and engineers to gain and validate the skills needed to build a secure, resilient network, according to Global Knowledge.

CND is a vendor-neutral, lab-intensive program based on a job-task analysis and cybersecurity education framework presented by the National Initiative of Cybersecurity Education, according to the EC-Council. The course has been mapped to responsibilities at the Department of Defense for systems/network administrators.

The course covers the protect, detect and respond approach to network security, the EC-Council said. It contains hands-on labs that will provide network administrators with real-world expertise on network security technologies and operations.