Your Monthly Security Digest: EC-Council September Cyber Brief
Cybercriminals never rest, and neither should your cybersecurity knowledge. This September brings fresh opportunities and insights you won't want to miss—from high-impact training and Hacker Halted 2025 to expert insights on data privacy, cybersecurity leadership, modern SOC strategies, and mobile forensics. You will also find competitions to test your skills on a global stage and webinars to sharpen your strategies. Explore what is new and what is next in the September edition of EC-Council's Cyber Brief.
Hacker Halted 2025: Order From Chaos Starts Here
Join Hacker Halted 2025, a conference with global networking, keynotes, hacking villages, and pre-conference MasterClass training.
Hacker Halted 2025 isn't just another conference. It's where cybersecurity's boldest prove their readiness.

MasterClass Training (September 27–30): Four days of immersive, outcome-oriented cybersecurity training ahead of the main conference. Choose from an online or in-person format and register independently or as part of your full conference experience. MasterClasses include:


Conference (October 1–2): Two days of visionary keynotes, hacking villages, thought-provoking debates, an exclusive film screening, and networking that matters, featuring cybersecurity practitioners and visionaries from across the globe.
An article exploring strategies to secure sensitive data, protect intellectual property, and ensure compliance.
Data Privacy and Protection: Strategies to Secure Sensitive Information
Explore strategies to protect PII and intellectual property. Learn to build a scalable privacy program, data anonymization measures, and ensure compliance.
An article explaining why a CISO-first approach reduces compliance risks and costs compared to an engineer-first approach.
CISO-First Strategy: Saving Costs in an AI-Driven Threat Landscape
Discover why a CISO-first approach prevents compliance gaps and costly retrofits compared to an engineer-first approach. Get a three-year TCO projection comparing both approaches.
ECCU's Online MBA: Business Strategy + Cyber Leadership
A program overview of EC-Council University Online MBA with specializations in Cybersecurity Executive Leadership & Governance or Cybersecurity.
EC-Council University's Online MBA blends core business skills in finance, leadership, and marketing with advanced cyber risk expertise. Choose your specialization:
  • Cybersecurity Executive Leadership & Governance: Manage cyber risk, lead governance, and align security with business goals.
  • Cybersecurity: Build technical and strategic expertise to protect organizations.
Graduate job-ready, prepared to make informed business decisions while securing organizations.
August Webinar
A webinar on proactive defense, automation, malware analysis, and threat hunting with Dr. Bright Gameli Mawudor, Founder of Africahackon. Modernize Your Security Operations and Incident Response

Dr. Bright Gameli Mawudor shares proactive defense strategies, including threat detection, malware analysis, security automation, and operational efficiency through threat hunting labs.

Upcoming Webinars
Join a webinar on September 19 with Bennie Cleveland on CISO leadership, GRC, audit, and driving business value.
CISO Leadership Essentials: Driving Cybersecurity as a Business Enabler
Join Bennie Cleveland on September 19 as he divulges how modern CISOs bridge security and business by mastering GRC, audit, and financial leadership. Learn key strategies to drive business value.
Join a webinar on September 25 with Amber Schroader on mobile forensics, tools, timeline reconstruction, and compliance.
From Logs to Evidence: Forensic Workflows in Mobile Devices
Join Amber Schroader on September 25 as she explains mobile device forensics, from log and artifact correlations to timeline reconstruction across iOS and Android. Discover key challenges, tools, and compliance standards.
C|EH Compete August 2025 Leaderboard
August CEH Compete leaderboard highlighting top ethical hackers in a simulated e-commerce breach defense challenge.
In August's C|EH Compete, ethical hackers faced off in a four-hour simulated eCommerce breach to stop fraud, reverse ransomware, and defend digital commerce. Ethical hackers worldwide rose to the challenge, with top performers emerging from Asia, Europe, and South America, proving their mastery on a global stage.
Hackerverse August 2025 Leaderboard
Hackerverse August leaderboard showcasing winners in cryptography, forensics, reverse engineering, and malware analysis.
The next challenge is coming. Will your name be on the leaderboard?

Hackerverse, EC-Council's global CTF platform, is where cybersecurity enthusiasts sharpen skills, earn certificates, gain recognition, and compete for rewards. In August, top players mastered cryptography, forensics, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. September's challenge is yours to take.

Don't just watch the leaderboard. Join Hackerverse.
EC-Council in the News
A news update announcing free admission for U.S. veterans, military personnel, and their spouses to the upcoming Hacker Halted and Global CISO Forum 2025.
EC-Council Grants Free Access for Military and Veterans to Hacker Halted & Global CISO Forum 2025
EC-Council is offering active-duty military, their spouses, and veterans free admission to Hacker Halted and Global CISO Forum 2025, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 1–2.
A news update announcing the premiere of cybersecurity visionary Len Noe's documentary, I Am Machine, on October 2 at EC-Council's Hacker Halted conference.
From Human to Cyborg: Cybersecurity Visionary Len Noe to Unveil Explosive Documentary 'I Am Machine' at Hacker Halted
The age of human and machine convergence is not far, and exploring this ethical and identity conundrum is the documentary film I Am Machine, which will premiere on October 2 at the Hacker Halted conference.
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