he EC-Council Certified Incident Handler (ECIH) program focuses on a structured approach for performing the incident handling and response (IH&R) process. The IH&R process includes stages like incident handling and response preparation, incident validation and prioritization, incident escalation and notification, forensic evidence gathering and analysis, incident containment, systems recovery, and incident eradication. This systematic incident handling and response process creates awareness among incident responders in knowing how to respond to various types of security incidents.

Cybersecurity Professionals interested in pursuing incident handling and response as a career require comprehensive training on the IH&R concepts as well as real-world scenarios. The ECIH program includes hands-on learning delivered through iLabs, online labs within the training program.

EC-Council’s Certified Incident Handler provides students with 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. The skills taught in EC-Council’s ECIH program are desired by cybersecurity professionals from around the world and is respected by employers.

ECIH Course Benefits

• To enable individuals and organizations with the ability to handle and respond to different types of cybersecurity incidents in a systematic way.
• To ensure that organization can identify, contain, and recover from an attack.
• To reinstate regular operations of the organization as early as possible and mitigate the negative impact on the business operations.
• To be able to draft security policies with efficacy and ensure that the quality of services is maintained at the agreed levels.
• To minimize the loss and after-effects breach of the incident.
• For individuals: To enhance skills on incident handling and boost their employability.