About this course:

The Certified Incident Handling Engineer vendor-neutral certification is designed to help Incident Handlers, System Administrators, and any General Security Engineers understand how to plan, create and utilize their systems in order to prevent, detect and respond to attacks. In this in-depth training, students will learn step-by-step approaches used by hackers globally, the latest attack vectors and how to safeguard against them, Incident Handling procedures (including developing the process from start to finish and establishing your Incident Handling team), strategies for each type of attack, recovering from attacks and much more. Furthermore, students will enjoy numerous hands-on laboratory exercises that focus on topics, such as reconnaissance, vulnerability assessments using Nessus, network sniffing, web application manipulation, malware and using Netcat plus several additional scenarios for both Windows and Linux systems. Graduates of the mile2 Certified Incident Handling Engineer training obtain real world security knowledge that enables them to recognize vulnerabilities, exploit system weaknesses and help safeguard against threats. This course covers the same objectives as the SANS® Security 504 training and prepares students for the GCIH® and CIHE certifications.

The Certified Incident Handling Engineer exam is taken online through Mile2’s Assessment and Certification System (“MACS”)

The average salary for Incident Handling Engineer is $76,133 per year.

Course Objective: 

After completing this course, students will be able to: 

• Have knowledge to detect security threats, risk, and weaknesses.
• Have knowledge to plan for prevention, detection, and responses to security breaches.
• Have knowledge to accurately report on their findings from examinations.
• Be ready to sit for the C)IHE Certification Exam

Audience: 

• The CIHE course is an incident handling course that teaches students how to plan for, detect, and respond to security breaches. In order to do this effectively we require students to understand the material in our CISSO: Information Systems Security Office course. If you have taken the course or have equivalent experience/knowledge, you'll be able to learn the art of incident handling in the CIHE course.

Prerequisites:

• A minimum of 12 months' experience in networking technologies
• Sound knowledge of networking
• Sound knowledge of TCP/IP
• Knowledge of Microsoft packages
• Basic Knowledge of Linux is essential

Suggested prerequisites courses:

• Linux Fundamentals (L-120)
• Enterprise Linux Network Services (L-275)