Qualified professionals equipped with the latest knowledge and skills related to hacking techniques, tools, and methodologies are highly valued in any organization. Their value increases even more, when their skills are certified, for instance, by such a worldly known IT leader in cybersecurity as EC-Council. Having the CEH v11 accreditation proves your ability to hack any organization lawfully and means that you are a real professional in this sphere. This certification implies that you are the best candidate for such positions as a cybersecurity auditor, IT security administrator, security analyst, network engineer, manual ethical hacker, SOC security analyst, network security engineer, information security manager, cybersecurity consultant or cybersecurity analyst Level (I, II, III), among many.
The CEH certification is a real global standard for Ethical Hacking and verifies that you are proficient in the five stages of ethical hacking, which include reconnaissance, getting access, enumeration, maintaining access, and covering your tracks. This designation embraces more than 500 new threats and vulnerability scenarios, and testifies that you are skilled in modern malware analysis.
The exam candidates have to pass is the 312-50 (ECC Exam) or 312-50 (VUE). It includes 125 multiple-choice questions which have to be completed within 4 hours. The evaluation includes 9 domains in which you should be proficient in. The first one covers the overview of information security and ethical hacking. Here you should be able to demonstrate your competence in working with cyber Kill Chain and Ethical Hacking concepts, information security controls, information security overview, and information security laws and standards.
The second domain refers to reconnaissance techniques. In this domain, you should know everything about footprinting, such as concepts, methodology, network, tools, as well as different types of footprinting, for example, email, website, DNS. Your skills in dealing with scanning networks and enumeration will also be checked.
The third part is dedicated to system hacking phases and attack techniques. This section testifies your skills in working with vulnerability analysis. You should be knowledgeable of vulnerability concepts, assessment tools and solutions, reports, and classification types. Your skills in dealing with system hacking and malware threats will also be assessed.
The fourth section is focused on network and perimeter hacking. Here, you should show your competence in sniffing, social engineering, denial-of-service, and session hijacking. In addition, your knowledge and skills in dealing with evading IDS, firewalls, and honeypots will also be measured.
The fifth part is centered on web app hacking, which implies that you should be ready to demonstrate your expertise in hacking web servers, web apps, and SQL injection (SQLI).
Wireless network hacking is the sixth part, that will be covered in the CEH exam and to which you should be ready for. Your proficiency in wireless concepts, threats, hacking tools, wireless security tools will be checked.
The seventh part is dedicated to mobile platform, IoT, and OT Hacking. The knowledge that is evaluated in this section entails hacking iOS, hacking Android OS, guidelines and tools related to mobile security, IoT concepts, attacks, hacking tools, OT hacking methodology, among many.
The last two domains relate to cloud computing and cryptography. These sections will evaluate your knowledge of the cloud computing concepts and treats, cloud hacking and security, cryptography concepts, tools, email and disk encryption, countermeasures, and PKI.
Speaking of the salary of the CEH v11 certified professionals, they earn about $95,000 per annum, according to the PayScale website.