eCIR Exam Information and Outline
Certified Incident Responder
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 9, 2026
eCIR Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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official eCIR exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap.
The information below reflects the 2026 syllabus defined by
INE.
Below are complete topics detail with latest syllabus and course outline, that will help you good knowledge about exam objectives and topics that you have to prepare. These contents are covered in questions and answers pool of exam.
- Exam Format
- Practical lab-based exam
- Incident Response Process
- NIST lifecycle
- Log Analysis and SIEM (Splunk, ELK)
- Searching and correlating events
- Network Traffic Analysis
- PCAP analysis
- Endpoint Analysis and Memory Forensics
- Volatility and artefacts
- Malware Triage
- Static and dynamic analysis basics
- Threat Intelligence Correlation
- IOCs and TTPs
- Containment, Eradication and Reporting
- Response actions and reports