Dale Meredith - Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v11 312-50 Exam Guide: Keep up to date with ethical hacking trends and hone your skills with hands-on activities

Keep up to date with ethical hacking trends and hone your skills with hands-on activities

Dale Meredith

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This book is dedicated to all my students over the years. Those who have sat in on one of my live classes, watched my courses on Pluralsight, or listened to me speak at conferences. Thank you for putting up with my jokes. I know some were rough, some were good, and some I need to retire. Thank you all for allowing me to be a part of your learning journey. If you learn something from this book, do me a favor and reach out to me on social media and let me know. Some of my best days are the ones that start with folks letting me know I did something to help them.

Continually learning, evolving, and growing is a skill everyone should master. Being able to facilitate that growth and transfer that knowledge to others is an absolute gift. I have been an IT leader and author for over 20 years, having published over 40 courses on cybersecurity, networking, business continuity/disaster recovery, security leadership, and governance. I've always looked up to people who are great presenters and have the unique ability to transfer their knowledge effectively, break down complex topics into digestible chunks, and, most importantly, have fun in the process.

I have been very fortunate to personally know Dale Meredith for the better part of a decade, for he has that unique gift of teaching while making it fun. I call it edutainment, and every time I watch one of his courses or read an article he has published, I learn something. It could be a piece of technical detail I was not aware of (or had forgotten about) or something about the way he delivers material. Keeping a listener engaged while delivering training is no easy task, and in this Dale excels.

Cybersecurity is a vast and complex topic, with new threats emerging every day. The goalpost is constantly moving, and the need for certified, competent cybersecurity professionals gets bigger every day. Hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity jobs go unfilled globally each year as companies of all sizes and all industries face increased threats daily. It is no longer a matter of if a company will be targeted, but rather when. Being able to think like a hacker and solidify a company's defenses has never been more critical.

Dale has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world to learn everything from hardware and networking to cybersecurity and ethical hacking. I am excited to see the impact this book will have on people's careers, and ultimately their lives. This book will provide the knowledge necessary to develop critical cybersecurity skills and will empower you to take action, all while having fun in the process.

Christopher Rees

Enterprise IT Leader and Author

Dale Meredith is an EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker/Instructor and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Dale has over 10 years of senior IT management experience and was a CTO for an ISP. Dale's skill as an IT trainer lies in clarifying complicated concepts and ensuring students understand the theories. Dale's teaching style is memorable and entertaining. His expertise has led to many opportunities, including teaching teams in Fortune 500 firms, universities globally, the Department of Homeland Security, and many US military branches. Along with authoring video courses, consulting, and classroom training, you can catch Dale on stage speaking at IT conferences around the world, helping teams keep their companies safe, relevant, and breach-aware.

To my wife, Alice Meredith, the strongest woman I've ever met (she has to be, to be married to me!). Thanks for supporting me in my love of technology and building me up when things got rough.

To my kids and grandkids, thanks for letting me be your Batman. "Everything's impossible until somebody does it" Bruce Wayne

Thanks to the team at Packt (Neil, Sayali, and I'm sure countless others behind the scenes) for being patient with me. Thanks for giving me this opportunity.

Thanks also to Scott Merritt, the man who took so much off my plate to allow me to focus. Your work ethic and knowledge allowed my dream of being published to take place...Thank you, my friend.

Vinod Babu Bollikonda is a cybersecurity speaker, trainer, and technopreneur with two decades of experience in information technology and cybersecurity. He is a certified trainer for CompTIA, Microsoft, EC-Council, and ISACA courses, and a research scholar (PhD) on a niche topic in cybersecurity. He has worked at iGATE and Franklin Templeton and delivered training across 14 countries on 35 customized course curricula in cybersecurity. Vinod has also delivered expert-level training in a number of niche areas, including embedded, IoT, automotive, and industrial control system security testing. He has served as a security consultant on cybercrimes related to the dark web and cryptocurrencies and is the cofounder of VSVS Technologies. Vinod's hobbies include undertaking research on extra-terrestrial sounds and experiments with software-defined radio (SDR).

Thanks would be a small word to my beautiful wife, Swapna, the cofounder of VSVS Technologies, who helped me throughout this journey.

Sai Praveen Kumar Jalasutram is a certified and experienced cybersecurity professional with expertise in security operations, incident response, threat intelligence, threat hunting, forensic investigations, malware analysis, and detection engineering. He has worked for various global organizations across multiple industries, including government, technology, and education as a security consultant expert for enhancing cyber threat detection. Sai is one of the key developers of the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv10) and