GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)

Exam Certification Objectives

Incident Handling: Identification

Incident Handling: Overview and Preparation
Client Attacks
Covering Tracks: Networks
Covering Tracks: Systems
Denial of Service Attacks
Hands-on Exploits and Hacker Tools
Hands-on Exploits and Hacker Tools - Part 2
Hands-on Incident Handling
Hands-on Maintaining Access
Hands-on Reconnaissance and Scanning
Incident Handling: Containment
Incident Handling: Eradication, Recovery, and Lessons Learned
Network Attacks
Overflow Attacks
Password Attacks
Reconnaissance
Scanning: Discovery and Mapping
Scanning: Techniques and Defense
Session Hijacking and Cache Poisoning
Techniques for maintaining access
Web Application Attacks
Worms, Bots & Bot-Nets