Overview
The Certified Incident Handler course equips professionals with the essential skills to manage and respond to computer security incidents within information systems. Participants will learn to handle various types of incidents, understand risk assessment methodologies, and become familiar with laws and policies related to incident handling.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of networking and information security concepts.
- Prior experience in system administration or cybersecurity is beneficial but not mandatory.
Course Outline
- Understanding the fundamentals of incident handling.
- Importance and objectives of incident response.
- Steps involved in the incident response lifecycle.
- Planning and preparation strategies.
- Importance of first response in incident handling.
- Procedures for evidence collection and preservation.
- Identifying and analyzing malware threats.
- Containment, eradication, and recovery from malware incidents.
- Recognizing phishing and email-based attacks.
- Implementing response strategies for email threats.
- Detecting and responding to network intrusions.
- Network traffic analysis and anomaly detection.
- Addressing vulnerabilities in web applications.
- Response techniques for web-based attacks.
- Understanding cloud-specific security challenges.
- Incident response in cloud environments.
- Identifying and mitigating risks from within the organization.
- Strategies to handle insider-related incidents.
- Securing and responding to threats on endpoint devices.
- Endpoint detection and response tools and techniques.