CEH Course, Hope you heard of it most time. But then also some peoples are still having doubts "What is CEH course" ? CEH Course stands for Certified Ethical hacking Course. CEH Course is one of the professional courses nowadays. Some people do CEH Course for just fun and illegal hacking but some people do it for their career. CEH Course is mostly done by IT professionals to find vulnerabilities(weak access points) in the system and make the company organisation secure and protected from hackers.
After completion of this CEH Course you need to give CEH exam. This CEH exam is conducted by EC council on an international level. Remember it's not free. TO give exam you have to pay US$500 for one time (means if you are failed in this CEH exam then you will not be refunded and you have to pay again to give exam second time).The exam code for CEH Course Exam is 312-50. If a person has completed the CEH Course then he will be called Certified Ethical Hacker. Definately a question pops out in your mind that now "what this ethical hacker means?". So an ethical hacker is the person who works for an organisation. he then penetrate the system and network of the organisation by using the similar tools and methodologies as a malacious hacker. It is done for the purpose of finding the access points in the system and fix these security issues, so that none can hack the company network and its database. So CEH Course gives you the same kind of job a software testing engineer does. only difference is that software testing engineers check flaws and bug in software and these certified ethical hacker checks flaw and access points in the network and system. After doing this CEH Course you can apply for Security Professional, Information Security Analyst, Security Consultant, Certified Ethical Hacker, Penetration Tester, Security Analyst job in any company. CEH Course has many versions from v1 to v8. The ongoing version is v7. But just now v8 is launched. Soon trainings and exams will be available for CEH Course v8. These CEH Course versions are getting updated as more and new Hacking ways are discovered. So they add those modules to defend those new ways.
As we all know that every coin has two sides. Same thing is with CEH Course and Certified ethical Hackers. Some people says that there is no term like ethical hackers and there is no hacker who can be ethical - that's like saying 'ethical rapist' - it's a contradiction in terms." If you see second side of it, you will find some companies do not seem to mind the association. According to the report of EC-Council, there has been an increase in the CEH career and ethical hacking certifications demand is continuously increasing. For the same reason training centres for CEH Course are also increasing.
Know it's time to give the answers for questions related to CEH Course which I expected from you :
Q:Why would a company need an Ethical Hacker for his organisation?
A: They don't want to be the next *TJX (It is the largest store of international home apparels and fashion. But in December 2006 it is got hacked by some hacking society and all credit cards, debit cards, cheque and merchandise returns data was stolen and then whole company was ruined). Some government regulations require companies in certain sectors to have Penetration Testing (checking whether network and database is secured or not) done on regular intervals. All Payment Card Industry or organisations or websites(shopping) requires larger companies to have at least regular vulnerability checking done on fixed intervals. So here Ethical Hackers can help with some of these goals.
A: If you are not able to getting a job or if you are interested in networking or security. You are type of detective or investigating attitude. And of course the salary is awesome, Check below. So don't wait do CEH course and get certified.
Salary Ranges by Job:
Information Security Analyst - Rs 149,900 - Rs 883,657
After CEH Course completion and Getting CEH certificate from EC council, you become certified to carry out hacking ethically. So if you are interested in this course I will tell you the CEH Course Content for your better knowledge.
Given below CEH Course content is Of v7 if you want to know of v8 then wait for sometime for my next article. CEH Course is build up in modules. module is the collection of topics and concepts. So official there are 19 modules provided by EC council for CEH course v7, these are listed below :
Module 01: Introduction to Ethical Hacking
Internet Crime Current Report: IC3
Data Breach Investigations Report
Types of Data Stolen From the Organizations
Essential Terminologies
Elements of Information Security
Authenticity and Non-Repudiation
The Security, Functionality, and Usability Triangle
Security Challenges
Effects of Hacking
Who is a Hacker?
Hacker Classes
Hacktivism
What Does a Hacker Do?
Phase 1 - Reconnaissance
Phase 2 - Scanning
Phase 3 - Gaining Access
Phase 4 - Maintaining Access
Phase 5 - Covering Tracks
Types of Attacks on a System
Why Ethical Hacking is Necessary?
Defense in Depth
Scope and Limitations of Ethical Hacking
What Do Ethical Hackers Do?
Skills of an Ethical Hacker
Vulnerability Research
Vulnerability Research Websites
What is Penetration Testing?
Why Penetration Testing?
Penetration Testing Methodology
Module 02: Footprinting and Reconnaissance
Footprinting Terminologies
What is Footprinting?
Objectives of Footprinting
Footprinting Threats
Finding a Company’s URL
Locate Internal URLs
Public and Restricted Websites
Search for Company’s Information
Footprinting Through Search Engines
Collect Location Information
People Search
Gather Information from Financial Services
Footprinting Through Job Sites
Monitoring Target Using Alerts
Competitive Intelligence Gathering
WHOIS Lookup
Extracting DNS Information
Locate the Network Range
Traceroute
Mirroring Entire Website
Extract Website Information from http://www.archive.org
Monitoring Web Updates Using Website Watcher
Tracking Email Communications
Footprint Using Google Hacking Techniques
What a Hacker Can Do With Google Hacking?
Google Advance Search Operators
Google Hacking Tool: Google Hacking Database (GHDB)
Google Hacking Tools
Additional Footprinting Tools
Footprinting Countermeasures
Footprinting Pen Testing
Module 03: Scanning Networks
Network Scanning
Types of Scanning
Checking for Live Systems - ICMP Scanning
Ping Sweep
Three-Way Handshake
TCP Communication Flags
Hping2 / Hping3
Hping Commands
Scanning Techniques
Scanning: IDS Evasion Techniques
IP Fragmentation Tools
Scanning Tool: Nmap
Scanning Tool: NetScan Tools Pro
Scanning Tools
Do Not Scan These IP Addresses (Unless you want to get into trouble)
Scanning Countermeasures
War Dialing
Why War Dialing?
War Dialing Tools
War Dialing Countermeasures
OS Fingerprinting
Banner Grabbing Tool: ID Serve
GET REQUESTS
Banner Grabbing Tool: Netcraft
Banner Grabbing Tools
Banner Grabbing Countermeasures: Disabling or Changing Banner
Hiding File Extensions
Hiding File Extensions from Webpages
Vulnerability Scanning
Network Vulnerability Scanners
LANsurveyor
Network Mappers
Proxy Servers
Why Attackers Use Proxy Servers?
Use of Proxies for Attack
How Does Multi Proxy Work?
Free Proxy Servers
Proxy Workbench
Proxifier Tool: Create Chain of Proxy Servers
Socks Chain
TOR (The Onion Routing)
TOR Proxy Chaining Software
HTTP Tunneling Techniques
Why do I Need HTTP Tunneling?
Super Network Tunnel Tool
Httptunnel for Windows
Additional HTTP Tunneling Tools
SSH Tunneling
SSL Proxy Tool
How to Run SSL Proxy?
Proxy Tools
Anonymizers
Types of Anonymizers
Case: Bloggers Write Text Backwards to Bypass Web Filters in China
Text Conversion to Avoid Filters
Censorship Circumvention Tool: Psiphon
How Psiphon Works?
How to Check if Your Website is Blocked in China or Not?
G-Zapper
Anonymizer Tools
Spoofing IP Address
IP Spoofing Detection Techniques: Direct TTL Probes
IP Spoofing Detection Techniques: IP Identification Number
IP Spoofing Detection Techniques: TCP Flow Control Method