Cbt Nuggets Ethical Hacking

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KeithBarker has completed his White Hat Hacking v10 course, which teaches you the ethical hacking tools and techniques needed to improve network security posture. Through a hands-on focus, Keith teaches you how to lawfully identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities of a system.

While many new CBT Nuggets courses provide virtual labs, Keith starts the course by showing you how to build your own virtual lab. You will follow along Keith's video training in this Kali Linux sandbox using command lists for common hacks in the supplemental material.

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When considering a cybersecurity career path, several certifications promise to level up your skills and advance your career. The most prominent certification is the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), a gold standard for understanding and mitigating cybersecurity threats.

However, as with any investment of time and resources, aspiring cybersecurity professionals must weigh the pros and cons of earning the certificate. This article explores the question: Is the CEH certification worth it?

The Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) is a professional certification created by the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council). It is primarily designed for security experts who must understand system vulnerabilities and weaknesses in networks, operating systems, and computers.

Data breaches and ransomware attacks are often CEOs' biggest fears regarding threats to their company. A highly qualified security consultant is always sought after, and providing CEH credentials will make you far more likely to be chosen for the job.

A penetration tester is a textbook example of someone who would benefit from the CEH. Pen testing is specifically taught in the CEH training and provides pen testers with additional techniques and know-how they can use daily.

Facilitating effective communication can be the most difficult part of managing. Earning a CEH will make it far easier to communicate with your technical team. Additionally, it empowers the manager to take proactive measures during cybersecurity incidents.

An IT Security Architect would make excellent use of the CEH. The CEH would enable the architect to conduct threat modeling and analysis, reducing the network's attack vector and providing proactive solutions to eliminate potential attacks.

Earning the CEH will allow potential employers to verify your skill range easily, increasing your likelihood of landing a job. Furthermore, the CEH certification demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of ethical hacking principles, techniques, and methodologies.

Many companies continue to struggle to secure their data and identify and address system vulnerabilities. But chief information security officers (CISOs) are finding the best way to defend against hackers might be to hire a hacker of their own.

The demand for CISOs and security specialists like white-hat hackers is somewhat anecdotal, but overall the IT community is becoming increasingly nervous about security issues and there is an uptick in interest in security and ethical-hacking related content, says IT security expert and training professional James Conrad, who develops and teaches security and ethical hacking courses for CBT Nuggets.

Education is the best weapon, Lee says. Certified ethical hackers can help businesses understand both the nature of the threats and the potential for disaster by discovering potential vulnerabilities and stopping attacks before they begin.

To become a certified ethical hacker, candidates should have a minimum of helpdesk-level IT skills, some server experience and familiarity with Linux, says Conrad. Obviously, the more experience the better, but resources like those available at CBT Nuggets can help developers quickly get up to speed, he says.

Sharon Florentine covers IT careers and data center topics for CIO.com. Follow Sharon on Twitter @MyShar0na. Email her at sflor...@cio.com Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline and on Facebook.

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Any hacker must take some common steps to become an ethical hacker, the bare minimum of which is to make sure you have documented permission from the right people before breaking into something. Not breaking the law is paramount to being an ethical hacker. All professional penetration testers should follow a code of ethics to guide everything they do. The EC-Council, creators of the Certificated Ethical Hacker (CEH) exam, have one of the best public code of ethics available.

Most ethical hackers become professional penetration testers one of two ways. Either they learn hacking skills on their own or they take formal education classes. Many, like me, did both. Although sometimes mocked by self-learners, ethical hacking courses and certifications are often the gateway to a good paying job as a full-time penetration tester.

SANS GPEN. SysAdmin, Networking, and Security (SANS) Institute is a highly respected training organization, and anything they teach along with their certifications are greatly respected by IT security practitioners. SANS offers multiple pen testing courses and certifications, but its base GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN) is one of the most popular.

Ethical hackers usually have a standard set of hacking tools that they use all the time, but they might have to look for and stock up on different tools depending on the particular job. For example, if the penetration tester is asked to attack SQL servers and has no relevant experience, they might want to start researching and testing different SQL attack tools.

A picture is worth a thousand words: It used to be that to sell a defense to senior management, pen testers would hack senior management or show them documentation. Today, senior management wants slide decks, videos or animations of how particular hacks were performed in their environment. They use it not only to sell other senior managers on particular defenses but also as part of employee education.

Depending on what is in scope, the vulnerability discovery can be automated using exploitation or vulnerability scanning software. The latter software type usually finds vulnerabilities,but does not exploit them to gain unauthorized access.

Roger A. Grimes is a contributing editor. Roger holds more than 40 computer certifications and has authored ten books on computer security. He has been fighting malware and malicious hackers since 1987, beginning with disassembling early DOS viruses. He specializes in protecting host computers from hackers and malware, and consults to companies from the Fortune 100 to small businesses. A frequent industry speaker and educator, Roger currently works for KnowBe4 as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist and is the author of Cryptography Apocalypse.

Do you like cats, electronics, and hacking? Stop by the Nugget booth to build & customize your own cat-shaped hacking device - and learn to code, hack, and build fun projects with bite-sized classes throughout the day!

Alex Lynd is a 19 year old hardware developer & cybersecurity content creator who appears on shows like Hak5, where he creates educational hacking videos. He builds low-cost Signals Intelligence demos using microcontrollers, and also enjoys building environmental sensing / sustainable focused tech. Alex also created the Nugget, an educational cat-shaped console that makes it fun for beginners to learn hardware & ethical hacking!

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