It takes intuition and specialized skills to find hidden evidence and hunt for elusive threats. GIAC's Digital Forensics and Incident Response certifications encompass abilities that DFIR professionals need to succeed at their craft, confirming that professionals can detect compromised systems, identify how and when a breach occurred, understand what attackers took or changed, and successfully contain and remediate incidents. Keep your knowledge of detecting and fighting threats up to date - and your work role secure - with DFIR certifications.
Prove your ability to detect, respond to, and recover from an attack.
Prove your mastery of essential skills needed to defend the enterprise.
"Intrusion detection, incident response and digital forensics are my everyday working areas. My GIAC certs provided a practical framework that is comprehensive and effective. Clients trust my work when they know I'm certified and after when the see the result."
- Juan Manzano, GSE
The GBFA certification demonstrates that an individual is trained and qualified in the proper collection, acquisition, and rapid triage analysis of many forms of data storage.
Affiliated Training: FOR498: Battlefield Forensics & Data Acquisition
The GCFE certification validates a practitioner's knowledge of computer forensic analysis, with an emphasis on core skills required to collect and analyze data from Windows computer systems.
Affiliated Training: FOR500: Windows Forensic Analysis
The GASF certification confirms practitioners can perform forensic examinations on a range of mobile devices and collect data from a variety of files and applications.
Affiliated Training: FOR585: Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth
The GCFA certification proves that candidates have the knowledge, skills, and ability to conduct formal incident investigations and handle advanced incident handling scenarios.
Affiliated Training: FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics
The GNFA certification validates a practitioner's ability to perform examinations employing network forensic artifact analysis.
Affiliated Training: FOR572: Advanced Network Forensics: Threat Hunting, Analysis, and Incident Response
The GCTI certification proves practitioners have mastered strategic, operational, and tactical cyber threat intelligence fundamentals and application.
Affiliated Training: FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence
The GREM certification proves that professionals possess the knowledge and skills to reverse-engineer malicious software (malware) that targets common platforms, such as Microsoft Windows and web browsers.
Affiliated Training: FOR610: Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques
The GCIH with CyberLive certification focuses on methods used to detect, respond, and resolve computer security incidents.
Affiliated Training: SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling
The GRID certification is for professionals who want to prove that they can perform active defense strategies specific to and appropriate for an Industrial Control System (ICS) network and systems.
Affiliated Training: ICS515: ICS Active Defense and Incident Response