Areas Covered

• Strategic, operational, and tactical cyber threat intelligence application & fundamentals
• Open source intelligence and campaigns
• Intelligence applications and intrusion analysis
• Analysis of intelligence, attribution, collecting and storing data sets
• Kill chain, diamond model, and courses of action matrix
• Malware as a collection source, pivoting, and sharing intelligence

Who is GCTI for?

• Incident response team members
• Threat hunters
• Security operations center personnel
• Information security practitioners
• Experienced digital forensic analysts
• Federal agents and law enforcement officials

Exam Format

• 1 proctored exam
• 82 Questions
• 3 hours
• Minimum passing score of 71%

Note:GIAC reserves the right to change the specifications for each certification without notice. Based on a scientific passing point study, the passing point for the GISF exam has been determined to be 72% for all candidates receiving access to their certification attempts on or after June 12th, 2018.

Delivery

NOTE: All GIAC Certification exams are web-based and required to be proctored. There are two proctoring options: remote proctoring through ProctorU, and onsite proctoring through PearsonVUE.

Course Details