EC-Council CRAGE Boot Camp – 'The AI did it' fails the audit.

C|RAGE is EC-Council’s professional certification for people who govern AI and stand behind its decisions. It validates your ability to run AI governance end to end: policy design, regulatory compliance, risk and third-party management, security controls, privacy and trust, incident response, and assurance and auditing. EC-Council launched it in 2026 as part of its enterprise AI certification suite.

It is built for the people accountable when AI goes wrong: governance, risk, and compliance leaders, risk and regulatory managers, chief privacy officers and data protection officers, data governance leads, and internal and technology audit managers. If you are responsible for whether your organization’s AI is compliant, ethical, and defensible, this certification is designed for you.

No. C|RAGE is a governance and risk certification, not an engineering one. It covers AI foundations and security architecture at the level a governance leader needs to make decisions and ask the right questions, but the focus is policy, risk, compliance, and assurance rather than building models.

If you attend official EC-Council training, that is your qualifying path and the application fee is included in your course. If you sit the exam without training, you apply through EC-Council’s eligibility process with at least two years of information security work experience and pay a $100 application fee.

The exam code is 612-51. It has 100 multiple choice questions and a three hour time limit, delivered through the EC-Council exam portal with remote proctoring. EC-Council uses a variable cut score set per exam form, generally in the 60 to 85 percent range, to account for differences in question difficulty.

Three days, covering all eleven C|RAGE modules with expert-led instruction and scenario-based exercises. You walk in with real professional experience and walk out ready to sit the 612-51 exam.

The curriculum maps to the standards governance leaders are actually held to: NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, GDPR and CCPA, and SOC 2. You learn to operationalize governance against real regulatory and audit requirements, not generic best practice.

Many AI governance courses stop at principles. C|RAGE goes operational: building regulatory-compliant AI programs, executing AI testing and auditing, assessing third-party and supply-chain AI risk, and defining enterprise accountability. It certifies that you can not only describe good governance but design, run, and audit it.

They are three complementary EC-Council AI certifications. C|AIPM covers leading and scaling AI programs, C|OASP covers offensively testing and securing AI systems, and C|RAGE covers governing, regulating, and auditing AI. Governance leaders often pair C|RAGE with one of the others depending on their role.

Graduates move into roles such as AI Governance Lead, AI Risk Manager, AI Compliance Officer, Responsible AI Manager, AI Auditor, Model Governance Specialist, AI Policy Advisor, and Chief AI Officer. The certification maps to the governance, risk, and assurance skills these roles require.

Yes. Enrollment includes EC-Council’s official C|RAGE courseware, the exam voucher, a mobile study app, and a free retake. Because you train through an authorized channel, the application fee is covered as part of your enrollment.

Your enrollment includes a free retake. If you do not pass the first time, you can train with us again and reattempt the exam, so your investment is protected while you finish getting certified.

For professionals accountable for AI risk and compliance, yes. Most organizations deploy AI without a defined governance owner, and audit and regulatory exposure is growing fast. C|RAGE validates that you can close that gap, and it comes from EC-Council, the body behind CEH and CCISO, so it carries recognition employers already trust.