What is ECIH certification?

Overview

ECIH certification stands for EC-Council Certified Incident Handler and The International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC–Council)  offers and maintains the certificate. And before further discussing the exam, it makes sense to broadly understand what incident handler means in cybersecurity perspective. 

In essence, it is a concept used to describe the activities of an organization to identify, analyze, and correct hazards to prevent future recurrences. And to deal with these crisis situations, organizations should have qualified security professionals and proactively tested incident management programs in place.

ECIH Certification Requirements

The certification offers fundamental skills to timely handle and respond to computer security incidents in an information system. Furthermore, the credential will make you skilled professional who is capable of handling various types of organizational incidents.

The credential holder will also know and apply risk assessment methodologies, laws and policies related to incident handling procedures. Moreover, certified professional will be able to establish and develop incident handling and response policies and procedures and deal with various types of computer security incidents.

The exam covers and tests you in the following nine technical domains:

• Incident Response and Handling
• Process Handling
• Forensic Readiness and First Response
• Email Security Incidents
• Application Level Incidents
• Network & Mobile Incidents
• Insider Threats
• Malware Incidents
• Incidents Occurred in a Cloud Environment

Besides, candidates should manage to download and review the exam blueprint from the official site for detail exam information.

The exam has nine modules as of now and contains 125 multiple choice items. And the exam duration is four hours and candidates should be able to score at least 60% to earn the credential. It will cost you $450 as of writing this post.  And you will find it with lesser price from authorized partners though.

It is administered at Pearson VUE approved test centers worldwide. Certified ethical hackers and aspirants must strictly adhere to EC-Council Code of Professional Ethics to earn and maintain their certificate.