Certified Incident Handler (CIH)

What Is C|IH?

CIH has been designed and developed in collaboration with cybersecurity and incident handling/response experts across the globe. It is a comprehensive specialist level program, with CEH and CND being the "Core" certifications, that teaches how organizations can effectively handle post breach consequences by reducing the impact of the incident, both financial and reputational.


The course is built after the rigorous Job Task Analysis (JTA) of the job roles involved in the field of incident handling and response. It is highly interactive, comprehensive, standards-base, intensive 3-days training program that teaches a structured and professional approach for effective incident handling in real-life.

  • Course Content

    CIH is a method-driven program which gives a holistic approach covering vast concepts concerning organizational incident handling and response from process to recovering organizational assets from the impact of security incidents. These concepts are highly essential for handoing and responding the security incident to secure the organization from future threats or attacks.

  • Purpose of CIH
    • To enable individuals and organizations with the ability to handle and respond to different types of cybersecurity incident in a systematic way
    • To ensure that organization can identify, contain, and recover from an attack
    • To minimize the loss and after-effects breach of incident
    • For individuals: To enhance skill on incident hanlding and boost their employability
  • How CIH Benefits Individuals
    • Gain Access to an Advanced Lab Platform: Major hands-on component with 50 labs, 800 tools and 4 OS
    • Framework Compliance: 100% Complaint with the NICE 2.0 Framwork and the CREST Framework
    • Comprehensive Templates: A large array of templates, check list and cheat sheets

Who Is It For?

  • Those with the ambition to contain cyber threats
  • Mid-level to high-level cybersecurity professionals with a minimum of 3 years experience
  • Information security professionals who want to enrich their skills and knowledge in the field of incident handling and response

Exam Information

Exam Title Certified Incident Handler
Number of Questions 100
Test Duration 3 Hours
Test Format Multiple Choice
Passing Score 70%
Availability EC-Council Exam Portal (www.eccexam.com)

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