Chapter 1: Understanding Ethical Hacking
The Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification exam is neither easy nor designed to be easy. If it was not hard, everyone would do it – its difficulty is what makes it great. Ethical hackers are the essential workers of the IT, cybersecurity, and software development world, and the CEH certification is one of their baseline requirements. This guide covers the basics of ethical hacking. It's useful to CEH exam candidates and people who are concerned about the vulnerabilities in their environments.
This comprehensive overview will help you to do the following:
- Cover the basics of the CEH certification.
- Gain a strong and practical understanding of ethical hacking.
- Know the requirements and the skills you need to become a CEH.
- Evaluate yourself against ethical hacking standards.
- Decide whether the CEH certification is right for you.
This chapter will meet these goals through the following topics:
- The benefits of the CEH certification
- Information security
- The Cyber Kill Chain
- The behavioral identification of attackers
- Information security controls
- Information security laws and standards
