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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

Attacking the cloud

The cloud has its security challenges as we're about to find out. Let's discuss some of the challenges we face when securing the cloud environment.

Cloud security

One of the biggest concerns with cloud computing is security. When your data is stored in the cloud, you need to be sure that it is safe and secure. Here's the secret about cloud security: it's just another network infrastructure that we might be including within our own networks. So, the exact same threats that we experience against our internal networks (including wireless) are the same threats we see with the cloud. Things such as injection attacks, authentication issues, data leakage, misconfiguration, coding issues, passwords, and web server/app weaknesses are just a few of them. However, I'd be failing you if I didn't at least talk about a couple of them, so here we go:

  • Make sure you choose a reputable cloud provider with a good reputation for security...