Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Preparation Guide
Book Subtitle: Lesson-Based Review of Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing
Authors: Ahmed Sheikh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7258-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Ahmed Sheikh 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-7257-2Published: 28 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-7258-9Published: 27 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 109 b/w illustrations
Topics: Systems and Data Security