GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) Certification Exam Crack

Global Information Assurance Certification’s (GIAC) GCIH course offers some of the broadest incident response coverage. The certification, based on the six-day SANS Institute “SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling” course, has a reputation of providing actionable and useful real-world knowledge. It focuses on incident response from the attacker’s perspective to help defenders understand how to best react.

SEC504 covers dynamic incident response, on-premises and cloud defense strategies, and cybersecurity attack identification. The course includes hands-on exercises and labs with various tools, such as Hashcat, Nmap, Zeek, and Metasploit, and closes with a capture the flag event. The course is available in person, live online, and on demand.

The GCIH exam paired with the SANS training course can be costly for some applicants. Test-takers could talk to their current employers to allocate a training budget.

Some industry professionals have noted that the red teaming tools used in the course and the exam are out of date and recommend the more recent and complementary GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA) certification, based on the six-day SANS “SEC503: Networking Monitoring and Threat Detection In-Depth” course. More network-focused and technical, the GCIA exam is considered more difficult than the GCIH exam. Another complementary certification is GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), based on the six-day SANS “FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics” course. GCFA is considered even more difficult than the GCIH exam.

GCIH covers the following three areas:

1. Incident handling and computer crime investigation. Candidates demonstrate they know how to conduct the incident handling process and best practices, such as performing investigations into suspected attacks and mitigating exploits.
2. Computer and network hacker exploits. Candidates show they understand how to identify different cyberattacks and stop or mitigate each type of attack.
3. Hacker tools, such as Nmap, Metasploit and Netcat. Candidates demonstrate they understand how the hacking tools work and then detect and deploy defensive strategies to stop them.