Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Preparation Guide

Know the basic principles of ethical hacking. This book is designed to provide you with the knowledge, tactics, and tools needed to prepare for the Certified Ethical Hacker(CEH) exama qualification that tests the cybersecurity professional's baseline knowledge of security threats, risks, and countermeasures through lectures and hands-on labs. You will review the organized certified hacking mechanism along with: stealthy network re-con; passive traffic detection; privilege escalation, vulnerability recognition, remote access, spoofing; impersonation, brute force threats, and cross-site scripting. The book covers policies for penetration testing and requirements for documentation. This book uses a unique lesson format with objectives and instruction to succinctly review each major topic, including: footprinting and reconnaissance and scanning networks, system hacking, sniffers and social engineering, session hijacking, Trojans and backdoor viruses and worms, hacking webservers, SQL injection, buffer overflow, evading IDS, firewalls, and honeypots, and much more.

What You Will learn

• Understand the concepts associated with Footprinting
• Perform active and passive reconnaissance
• Identify enumeration countermeasures
• Be familiar with virus types, virus detection methods, and virus countermeasures
• Know the proper order of steps used to conduct a session hijacking attack
• Identify defensive strategies against SQL injection attacks

• Analyze internal and external network traffic using an intrusion detection system

  Who This Book Is For

  Security professionals looking to get this credential, including systems administrators, network administrators, security administrators, junior IT auditors/penetration testers, security specialists, security consultants,security engineers, and more

  Reviews the main security topics covered in the CEH Certification exam Prepares you for the exam by studying ethical hacking concepts in a practical, lesson-based format Teaches you penetration testing fundamentals and the certified hacking mechanism

  Autorentext

  Ahmed Sheikh is a Fulbright alumnus and has earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Kansas State University, USA. He is a seasoned IT expert with a specialty in network security planning and skills in cloud computing. Currently, he is working as an IT Expert Engineer at a leading IT electrical company.

  Zusammenfassung
  Intermediate user level

  Inhalt
  Chapter 1. Introduction to Ethical Hacking.- Chapter 2. Footprinting and Reconnaissance/Scanning Networks.- Chapter 3. Enumeration.- Chapter 4. System Hacking.- Chapter 5. Trojans and Backdoor/Viruses and Worms.- Chapter 6. Sniffers and Social Engineering.- Chapter 7. Denial of Service.- Chapter 8. Session Hijacking.- Chapter 9. Hacking Webservers.- Chapter 10. Hacking Web Applications.- Chapter 11. SQL Injection.- Chapter 12. Hacking Wireless Networks.- Chapter 13. Evading Intrusion Detection Systems, Firewalls, and Honeypots.- Chapter 14. Buffer Overflow.- Chapter 15. Cryptography.- Chapter 16. Penetration Testing.