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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

Vulnerability scanning and drawing out the network

Now that we've gone out, found our live machines, footprinted the OS, or done a banner grab to identify the OS, our next step is to go through and look for vulnerabilities.

Remember, our goal is discovering those targets – hopefully to find out what type of operating system and possibly what applications were running. That's exactly what vulnerability scanning and drawing out the network does for us.

Some IT guys wonder if vulnerability scans are important and my answer – my favorite line from a famous character – is, A man's got to know his limitations.

You must understand what your limitations are, what your vulnerabilities are.

Now that we agree, we'll go ahead and look at some of our greatest weaknesses. We'll do that by understanding what vulnerability scanning is. After that, we'll look at how it works, the different mechanisms we can use, and how various software...