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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

Ongoing scanning and monitoring

When it comes to ongoing scanning and continuous monitoring through the cycle – procurement, as well as replacing, and the issue of new tactics or new threats and techniques being utilized – it's not enough to perform a vulnerability assessment only once. You need to have some type of plan for an ongoing scan. As we mentioned earlier, you need to come up with a schedule and stick to it.

Continuous security monitor refers to the process of continual risk assessment. This means we maintain a high level of awareness of the threats that are coming out or have been released into the wild. It also refers to performing routine audits of rights and privileges in real time.

To truly have a good understanding of monitoring, you need to create an initial baseline to help identify any variations. You need to compare them. It's kind of like when someone says my system seems to be slow. Well, compared to what? We must have something...