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. Students will learn the handling of various types of incidents, risk assessment methodologies, as well as laws and policies related to incident handling. After attending the course, students will be able to create IH&R policies and deal with different types of security incidents such as malware, email security, network security, web application security, cloud security, and insider threat-related incidents.

• Key issues plaguing the information security world.
• Various types of cyber security threats, attack vectors, threat actors, and their motives, goals, and objectives of cyber security 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)
• 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 systematic way (malware incidents, email security incidents, network security incidents, web application security incidents, cloud security incidents, insider threat-related incidents, and endpoint security incidents)

Any mid-level to high-level cyber security professionals with a minimum of 3 years of experience

• Individuals from the information security profession and who want to enrich their skills and knowledge in the field of incident handling and response.
• Individuals interested in preventing cyber threats.

To be eligible to sit the E|CIH Exam, the candidate must either:

1. Attend official E|CIH training through any of EC-Council’s Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) or attend EC-Council’s live online training via iWeek or join our self-study program through iLearn (see https://iclass.eccouncil.org/)
2. Candidates with a minimum of 1 year of work experience in the domain that would like to apply to take the exam directly without attending training are required to pay the USD100 Eligibility Application Fee. This fee is included in your training fee should you choose to attend training.

• Certified: Incident Handler (ECIH 212-89)