Sri Lanka’s first batch of EC-Council Certified Security Analysts from CICRA

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Sandamali Silva becomes country’s first woman ECSA

Eleven Sri Lankans became the first batch to complete EC-Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) training programme – one of the world’s top most IT security qualification – held recently in Colombo. One of them – Sandamali Silva – became Sri Lanka’s first woman ECSA.

The ECSA training was organised by CICRA Consultancies (Pvt.) Ltd – part of CICRA Holdings and an accredited training centre of EC-Council, USA.
“The ECSA programme is a comprehensive, standards-based, methodology intensive training programme which teaches information security professionals to conduct real-life penetration tests by utilizing EC-Council’s published penetration testing methodology,” CICRA Holdings Director/CEO Boshan Dayaratne said.
“Certified Ethical Hacking (C|EH) is the industry standard for information security professionals who engage in penetration testing of their respective organisations. ECSA is a programme for those who have achieved C|EH. It deals with advanced ethical hacking,” Dayaratne said.
“Those who pass ECSA examination from the EC-Council, USA could apply to become Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT) status, the pinnacle of achievement for ethical hackers,” he said.
“With the ECSA training, CICRA has become the only institution in Sri Lanka that offers complete list of IT security certifications from EC-Council in Sri Lanka. Any IT professional can now become an expert in information security by following EC-Council certifications starting from Network Security Administrator (ENSA). He doesn’t need to fly abroad to obtain the ECSA anymore,” he said.
Out of 11 participants at the ECSA, Sandamali Silva was the first to sit for the four-hour online exam. She also became the first woman in Sri Lanka to obtain the ECSA qualification after passing the exam.
“Be it networking or application development, IT security is the future. You should be able to respond to any IT security issue. If you are to be the best in your field, all IT professionals need to thoroughly know the security perspective,” Silva said.
The ECSA training was conducted by CICRA’s master trainer Krishna Rajagopal from Malaysia.
CICRA is the leading cyber security training and consultancy organisation of Sri Lanka. It conducts a number of internationally recognized training programmes in IT security.

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