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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

Chapter 4: Scanning Networks

As an ethical hacker, or possibly the attacker ourselves, we've gone through and completed some of the first steps of attacking networks and systems. The first step we did was our reconnaissance in the previous chapter. If you're not familiar with that phrase, or what those steps involve, you need to go back to that chapter. Reconnaissance gave us a perfect view of the network. Now, it's time to get specific. In this chapter, we're going to get a little more active and involved.

In the initial stages of looking at our target, we did our footprinting and reconnaissance. Now, it's time to scan. This chapter will ensure you understand what you're doing and what scanning is.

You may be thinking, Wait, I thought we achieved everything we needed to achieve during the reconnaissance stage! Well, we didn't get as much information as we needed. And that's the whole goal here. Again, if the attacker can find out as much...