Certified Incident Handler

It is a comprehensive specialist-level program that imparts knowledge and skills that organizations need to effectively handle post breach consequences by reducing the impact of the incident, from both a financial and a reputational perspective.

Professionals interested in pursuing incident handling and response as a career require comprehensive training that not only imparts concepts but also allows them to experience real scenarios. The E|CIH program includes handson learning delivered through labs within the training program. True employability after earning a certification can only be achieved when the core of the curricula maps to and is compliant with government and industry-published incident and response frameworks.

Following a rigorous development, which included a careful Job Task Analysis (JTA) related to incident handlingand incident first responder jobs, EC-Council developed a highly interactive, comprehensive, standards-based,intensive 3-day training program and certification that provides a structured approach to learning real-world incident handling and response requirements.

Organizations are under constant attack and with the knowledge and skills found in the ECIH program, professionals can now not only detect incidents, but also quickly manage and respond holistically to these incidents.

ECIH is a method-driven program that uses a holistic approach to cover vast concepts concerning organizational incident handling and response from preparing and planning the incident handling response process to recovering organizational assets after a security incident. These concepts are essential for handling and responding to security incidents to protect organizations from future threats or attacks.

Target Audience

There is no organization that is truly safe from a cyberattack. An Incident Manager with the proper incident handling skills can help reduce the impact of a breach. The incident handling skills taught in ECIH are complementary to the job roles below as well as many other cybersecurity jobs:

• PenetrationTesters
• Application Security Engineers
• Cyber Forensic Investigators/Analyst and SOC Analyst
• Firewall Administrators and Network Managers/IT Managers

ECIH is a specialist-level program that caters to mid-level to high-level cybersecurity professionals. In order to increase your chances of success, it is recommended that you have at least 1 year of experience in the cybersecurity domain.

Duration

• 24 hours

Recommended next exam or course

• EC-Council Certified Incident Handler Certification