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Certifications From SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) Institute

GIAC Certified Incident Manager (GCIM)

Skill Level: Not Rated Status: Active
For managers who are responsible for supervising incident handling/incident response.

GIAC Certified ISO-17799 Specialist (G7799)

Skill Level: Basic Status: Active
G7799 candidates must demonstrate understanding of the ISO-17799 standard and the ability to put it into practice.

GIAC Information Security Fundamentals (GISF)

Skill Level: Basic Status: Active
For Managers, Information Security Officers, and System Administrators who need an overview of risk management and defense in depth techniques. Anyone who writes, implements, or must adhere to policy, disaster recovery or business continuity.

GIAC IT Security Audit Essentials (GSAE)

Skill Level: Basic Status: Active
For individuals entering the information security industry who are tasked with auditing organization policy, procedure, risk, or policy conformance.

GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)

Skill Level: Basic Status: Active
Entry level designation for individuals who are or will be responsible for managing and protecting important information systems and networks.

GIAC Assessing Wireless Networks (GAWN)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
For auditors, network administrators and penetration-testers who are responsible for assessing the security of wireless networks.

GIAC Certified Firewall Analyst (GCFW)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
For Individuals responsible for designing, implementing, configuring, and monitoring a secure perimeter for any organization; including routers, firewalls, VPNs/remote access, and overall network design.

GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
For individuals who are responsible for forensic investigation/analysis, advanced incident handling, or formal incident investigation.

GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
For individuals who are responsible for incident handling/incident response;and individuals who require an understanding of the current threats to systems and networks, along with effective countermeasures.

GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
For individuals who are responsible for network and host monitoring, traffic analysis, and intrusion detection.

GIAC Certified Security Consultant (GCSC)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
For individuals responsible for taking a leadership role in interfacing with clients and managing projects in a security consulting practice both technically and from a business perspective.

GIAC Certified Unix Security Administrator (GCUX)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
For security engineers who wish to show proficiency in securing Unix/Linux systems.

GIAC Certified Windows Security Administrator (GCWN)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
For security engineers who wish to show proficiency in securing Windows XP, Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems.

GIAC Secure Software Programmer (GSSP)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Pending
For individuals who wish to demonstrate expertise in secure programming skills in different languages such as Java and J2EE, C and C++, PHP, Perl, ASP.NET and .NET.

GIAC Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA)

Skill Level: Intermediate Status: Active
GIAC Systems and Network Auditors (GSNAs) have the knowledge, skills and abilities to apply basic risk analysis techniques and to conduct a technical audit of essential information systems.

GIAC .Net (GNET)

Skill Level: Advanced Status: Active
For individuals who are responsible for securing .Net code or a Microsoft Web-based architecture, including Developers and Development Management and Consultants, Information Security Analysts, and System Administrators.

GIAC Secure Internet Presence (GSIP)

Skill Level: Advanced Status: Active
For individuals who are responsible for installing, configuring, developing and monitoring secure web applications using Linux systems with Apache web server, MySQL databases and the PHP scripting language (LAMP).