Course Overview
EC-Council’s Certified Incident Handler program equips students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to effectively prepare for, deal with, and eradicate threats and threat actors in an incident.
This program provides the entire process of Incident Handling and Response and hands-on labs that teach the tactical procedures and techniques required to effectively Plan, Record, Triage, Notify and Contain.
ECIH also covers post incident activities such as Containment, Eradication, Evidence Gathering and Forensic Analysis, leading to prosecution or countermeasures to ensure the incident is not repeated.
With over 95 labs, 800 tools covered, and exposure to Incident Handling activities on four different operating systems, E|CIH provides a well-rounded, but tactical approach to planning for and dealing with cyber incidents.
Prerequisites
To qualify for the E|CIH program, one must have at least 3 years of experience working as a cyber security professional.
Course Objectives
- Key issues plaguing the information security world
- Various types of cybersecurity threats, attack vectors, threat actors, and their motives, goals, and objectives of cybersecurity attacks
- Various attack and defense frameworks (Cyber Kill Chain Methodology, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, etc.)
- Fundamentals of information security concepts (vulnerability assessment, risk management, cyber threat intelligence, threat modeling, and threat hunting)
- Various attack and defense frameworks (Cyber Kill Chain Methodology, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, etc.)
- Fundamentals of incident management (information security incidents, signs and costs of an incident, incident handling and response, and incident response automation and orchestration)
- Different incident handling and response best practices, standards, cybersecurity frameworks, laws, acts, and regulations
- Various steps involved in planning incident handling and response program (planning, recording and assignment, triage, notification, containment, evidence gathering and forensic analysis, eradication, recovery, and post-incident activities)
- Importance of first response and first response procedure (evidence collection, documentation, preservation, packaging, and transportation)
- How to handle and respond to different types of cybersecurity incidents in a systemic way (malware incidents, email security incidents, network security incidents, web application security incidents, cloud security incidents, insider threat-related incidents, and endpoint security incidents)