Certified Ethical Hacking Professional CEHP

"Conduct structured OSINT investigations to map an organization's attack surface before any active testing begins."

"Scan and enumerate live network targets using Nmap, interpreting results and filtering false positives."

"Build complete attack surface diagrams through banner grabbing, service enumeration, and vulnerability prioritization."

"Build the Linux command-line and scripting fluency every offensive security professional depends on."

"Run systematic vulnerability assessments with industry scanners, validating and prioritizing findings by real risk."

"Understand cryptographic weaknesses and credential attacks in a lab to test the strength of authentication systems."

"Execute controlled exploitation using Metasploit in an isolated lab, following strict safe-execution protocols."

"Identify and exploit local privilege escalation paths across Windows and Linux systems in lab scenarios."

"Simulate Active Directory attacks in a lab to understand lateral movement and Group Policy weaknesses."

"Assess the security of wireless networks and IoT devices in controlled lab environments."

"Explore low-level memory corruption and buffer overflow exploitation in controlled, isolated lab targets."

"Practice post-exploitation tradecraft — pivoting, data collection, and cleanup — within authorized lab scope."

"Test web applications against the OWASP Top 10, identifying injection, session, and input validation flaws."

"Assess cloud misconfigurations and exposure across AWS and Microsoft Azure environments."

"Validate findings, score risk with CVSS awareness, and produce industry-standard, responsibly disclosed reports."

"Simulate realistic adversaries through red team operations and ethically-bounded social engineering."

"Assess the security of REST/GraphQL APIs and mobile applications — the dominant modern attack surface."

"Analyze malware behavior and evasion techniques to understand modern threats and strengthen detection."