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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v12 312-50 Exam Guide

By : Dale Meredith
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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v12 312-50 Exam Guide

By: Dale Meredith

Overview of this book

With cyber threats continually evolving, understanding the trends and using the tools deployed by attackers to determine vulnerabilities in your system can help secure your applications, networks, and devices. To outmatch attacks, developing an attacker's mindset is a necessary skill, which you can hone with the help of this cybersecurity book. This study guide takes a step-by-step approach to helping you cover all the exam objectives using plenty of examples and hands-on activities. You'll start by gaining insights into the different elements of InfoSec and a thorough understanding of ethical hacking terms and concepts. You'll then learn about various vectors, including network-based vectors, software-based vectors, mobile devices, wireless networks, and IoT devices. The book also explores attacks on emerging technologies such as the cloud, IoT, web apps, and servers and examines prominent tools and techniques used by hackers. Finally, you'll be ready to take mock tests, which will help you test your understanding of all the topics covered in the book. By the end of this book, you'll have obtained the information necessary to take the 312-50 exam and become a CEH v11 certified ethical hacker.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Where Every Hacker Starts
10
Section 2: A Plethora of Attack Vectors
15
Section 3: Cloud, Apps, and IoT Attacks
20
Chapter 17: CEH Exam Practice Questions

Honeypots

In addition to using scanners or IDSs, companies can also install honeypots on their networks to attract external people who just want to get in and break things. Honeypots give security managers and law enforcement an opportunity to get a close-up view of hacker methods and tools. Typically, after hackers enter honeypots through hacking techniques such as software bugs or vulnerabilities, their activities are carefully monitored until they access the systems that they really want or reveal other interesting information.

After falling into a honeypot, hackers find themselves in a special network that may be completely isolated from the company's own network or is set up to mimic certain important servers and services. Then, they can't connect to the usual ports of the usual services, and therefore cannot proceed with their work.

Detecting a honeypot

This is relatively easy. Just become friends with Winnie the Pooh. He'll tell you right away if there...