In this best-of-breed study guide, leading experts Michael Gregg and Omar Santos help you master all the topics you need to know to succeed on your Certified Ethical Hacker exam and advance your career in IT security. The authors' concise, focused approach explains every exam objective from a real-world perspective, helping you quickly identify weaknesses and retain everything you need to know.
Every feature of this book supports both efficient exam preparation and long-term mastery:
* Opening topics lists identify the topics you need to learn in each chapter and list EC-Council's official exam objectives
* Key Topics figures, tables, and lists call attention to the information that's most crucial for exam success
* Exam Preparation Tasks enable you to review key topics, define key terms, work through scenarios, and answer review questions...going beyond mere facts to master the concepts that are crucial to passing the exam and enhancing your career
Key Terms are listed in each chapter and defined in a complete glossary, explaining all the field's essential terminology
This study guide helps you master all the topics on the latest CEH exam, including
* Ethical hacking basics
* Technical foundations of hacking
* Footprinting and scanning
* Enumeration and system hacking
* Social engineering, malware threats, and vulnerability analysis
* Sniffers, session hijacking, and denial of service
* Web server hacking, web applications, and database attacks
* Wireless technologies, mobile security, and mobile attacks
* IDS, firewalls, and honeypots
* Cryptographic attacks and defenses
* Cloud computing, IoT, and botnets
Michael Gregg (CISSP, SSCP, CISA, MCSE, MCT, CTT+, A+, N+, Security+, CCNA, CASP, CISA, CISM, CEH, CHFI, and GSEC) directs the cybersecurity operations for a multinational organization that operates facilities worldwide. As the CISO, Michael is responsible for securing the organization's assets on a global scale. Michael is responsible for developing cost-effective and innovative technology solutions for security issues and for evaluating emerging technologies.
He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field and holds two associate's degrees, a bachelor's degree, and a master's degree. In addition to coauthoring the first, second, and third editions of Security Administrator Street Smarts, Michael has written or coauthored more than 20 other books.
Michael has testified before a U.S. congressional committee, has been quoted in newspapers such as the New York Times, and was featured on various television and radio shows, including NPR, ABC, CBS, Fox News, and others, discussing cybersecurity and ethical hacking. He has created more than a dozen IT security training classes. He has created and performed video instruction on many security topics, such as cybersecurity, CISSP, CISA, Security+, and others.
When not working, speaking at security events, or writing, Michael enjoys 1960s muscle cars and has a slot in his garage for a new project car.
Omar Santos is an active member of the cybersecurity community. His active role helps businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants that are dedicated to increasing the security of their critical infrastructure. Omar is the lead of the DEF CON Red Team Village, the chair of the OASIS Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF), and has been the leader of several working groups in the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) and the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).
Omar is the author of more than 20 books and video courses and numerous white papers, articles, and security configuration guidelines and best practices. Omar is a principal engineer of the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), where he mentors and leads engineers and incident managers during the investigation and resolution of security vulnerabilities. Omar has been quoted by numerous media outlets, such as The Register, Wired, ZDNet, ThreatPost, CyberScoop, TechCrunch, Fortune, Ars Technica, and more. Additional information about Omar can be obtained from h4cker.org and omarsantos.io. You can follow Omar on Twitter at @santosomar.
