EC-Council CND: Certified Network Defender v3

Plan, administer, and enforce network security while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Recognize risks, threats, vulnerabilities, and perform risk and vulnerability assessments across IT environments.
Design and implement security policies, access controls, encryption, segmentation, and wireless security.
Manage Windows, Linux, cloud, virtualization, and mobile/IoT security administration.
Monitor network traffic, maintain device inventories, and perform log management to detect anomalies.
Configure firewalls, IDS/IPS, proxies, content filtering, and harden endpoint security.
Provide first response to incidents, identify indicators of compromise/attack, and assist with threat hunting.
Integrate threat intelligence, Zero Trust, EDR/XDR, UEBA, and SOAR platforms for proactive defense.
Support business continuity, disaster recovery, privacy impact assessments, and system integrity monitoring.
Deliver security training, evaluate products, stay updated on emerging threats, and apply AI/ML in cyber defense.