Know the basic principles of ethical hacking. This book is designed to provide you with the knowledge, tactics, and tools needed to prepare for the Certified Ethical Hacker(CEH) exam—a qualification that tests the cybersecurity professional’s baseline knowledge of security threats, risks, and countermeasures through lectures and hands-on labs. You will review the organized certified hacking mechanism along with: stealthy network re-con; passive traffic detection; privilege escalation, vulnerability recognition, remote access, spoofing; impersonation, brute force threats, and cross-site scripting. The book covers policies for penetration testing and requirements for documentation. This book uses a unique “lesson” format with objectives and instruction to succinctly review each major topic, including: footprinting and reconnaissance and scanning networks, system hacking, sniffers and social engineering, session hijacking, Trojans and backdoor viruses and worms, hacking webservers, SQL injection, buffer overflow, evading IDS, firewalls, and honeypots, and much more. What You Will learnUnderstand the concepts associated with FootprintingPerform active and passive reconnaissanceIdentify enumeration countermeasuresBe familiar with virus types, virus detection methods, and virus countermeasuresKnow the proper order of steps used to conduct a session hijacking attackIdentify defensive strategies against SQL injection attacksAnalyze internal and external network traffic using an intrusion detection systemWho This Book Is ForSecurity professionals looking to get this credential, including systems administrators, network administrators, security administrators, junior IT auditors/penetration testers, security specialists, security consultants,security engineers, and more