GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) Certification Study Guide

This book provides a comprehensive guide to advanced cybersecurity concepts, penetration testing, and exploit development. Covering 250 multiple-choice questions with detailed explanations, it serves as an essential resource for cybersecurity professionals, ethical hackers, and security researchers.

The book delves into exploit development, including buffer overflows, return-oriented programming (ROP), and stack pivoting. It explains malware analysis, reverse engineering, and techniques such as process hollowing and reflective DLL injection. Readers will gain insights into AI-driven threat detection, adversarial AI attacks, and machine learning applications in cybersecurity.

Network security topics include firewall evasion, VLAN hopping, DNS cache poisoning, and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. The book also explores cloud security vulnerabilities, IAM privilege escalation, container escapes, and API key protection. In web security, it addresses SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), server-side request forgery (SSRF), and XML external entity (XXE) attacks.

The incident response and digital forensics section provides insights into forensic timeline analysis, memory forensics, and security event correlation. It emphasizes threat intelligence frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, SIEM integration, and proactive threat hunting strategies.

Designed as a study guide for cybersecurity certifications like GXPN, OSCP, and CISSP, this book equips readers with hands-on knowledge and practical skills to tackle real-world security challenges. Whether preparing for certification exams or enhancing penetration testing expertise, this book is an invaluable cybersecurity resource