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

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) exam—a 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

Table of contents (16 chapters)

Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Pages 1-9

Footprinting and Reconnaissance/Scanning Networks

Pages 11-25

Enumeration

Pages 27-34

System Hacking

Pages 35-47

Trojans, Backdoors, Viruses, and Worms

Pages 49-69

Sniffers and Social Engineering

Pages 71-84

Denial of Service

Pages 85-91

Session Hijacking

Pages 93-102

Hacking Webservers

Pages 103-114

Hacking Web Applications

Pages 115-124

SQL Injections

Pages 125-137

Hacking Wireless Networks

Pages 139-152

Evading Intrusion Detection Systems, Firewalls, and Honeypots

Pages 153-164

Buffer Overflow

Pages 165-173

Cryptography

Pages 175-188

Penetration Testing

Pages 189-196