EC-Council is a cybersecurity certification, education, training, and services company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

EQT Private Equity invested in EC-Council in September 2021[3] EC-Council is the creator of popular certification programs such as CEH,[4][5] CHFI, ECSA/LPT and the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) program for white hat hackers in 2003.

[7][8] In 2010, the EC-Council part of the organisations selected by the Pentagon to oversee training of Department of Defense employees who work in computer security-related jobs.

[11] The attacker managed to exfiltrate sensitive data like passport pictures from the applicants, including notably Edward Snowden's.

[18][19] In 2021, the EC-Council took its entire blog down due to apparent systematic copyright violations and plagiarism conducted by its marketing team.

It received CREST membership for its cyber incident response, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment services in 2020.