CEH v10 Certified Ethical Hacker Practice Exams & Dumps

Book excerpt: CEH can be said as a certified ethical hacker. This certification is a professional certificate and it is awarded by the EC council (international council of E-commerce consultant). An ethical hacker is a name that is given to penetration testing/ tester. An ethical hacker is employed by the organization with full trust with the employer (ethical hacker) for attempting the penetrating the computer system in order to find and fix all the computer security vulnerabilities. Computer security vulnerabilities also include illegal hacking (gaining authorization to some other computer systems). These activities are criminal activities in almost all countries. Doing a penetrating test in a particular system with the permission of the owner is done and also possible except in Germany. This certification validates the knowledge and skills that are required on how to look for the vulnerabilities as well as weaknesses in a particular computer.