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Ethical Hacking (C|EH Prep)

19 Courses
15 Labs
56 Hours
Practice exam

Pluralsight is not an official partner or accredited training center of EC-Council. This series can be used to prepare for the EC-Council® CEH® (Certified Ethical Hacker) examination, with coverage of CEH for 312-50 (ECC EXAM), 312-50 (VUE).

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Ethical Hacking (C|EH Prep)

Pluralsight is not an official partner or accredited training center of EC-Council. This series provides the foundational knowledge needed to ethically and effectively discover and exploit vulnerabilities in systems by assuming both the mindset and toolset of an attacker. Through learning how systems are attacked you will gain an understanding of how best to protect systems and improve your organization’s security. This series of courses and labs can be used to prepare for the EC-Council® C|EH® (Certified Ethical Hacker) examination, with coverage of C|EH for 312-50 (ECC EXAM), 312-50 (VUE).

Course

Ethical Hacking: Updates and New Exploits

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 38m
  • Jun 26, 2025
Course

Ethical Hacking: Understanding Ethical Hacking

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 2h 39m
  • Nov 22, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Reconnaissance/Footprinting

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 4h 18m
  • Nov 22, 2022
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Ethical Hacking: Scanning Networks

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 2h 54m
  • Nov 22, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Enumeration

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 2h 34m
  • Nov 22, 2022
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Ethical Hacking: Vulnerability Analysis

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 1h 25m
  • Nov 22, 2022
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Ethical Hacking: System Hacking

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 4h 34m
  • Dec 07, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Malware Threats

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 5h 2m
  • Nov 22, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Sniffing

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 3h 7m
  • Nov 22, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Social Engineering

  • by Alexander Tushinsky
  • 48m
  • Oct 17, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Web Application Hacking

  • by Peter Mosmans
  • 1h 41m
  • Oct 17, 2022
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Ethical Hacking: Network and Perimeter Hacking

  • by Michael Teske
  • 1h 3m
  • Dec 06, 2022
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Ethical Hacking: Hacking Wireless Networks

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 3h 36m
  • Nov 22, 2022
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Ethical Hacking: Hacking Mobile Platforms

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 2h 22m
  • Nov 22, 2022
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Ethical Hacking: Hacking IoT and OT

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 2h 12m
  • Nov 22, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Cloud Computing

  • by Michael Teske
  • 48m
  • Nov 21, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Cryptography

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 1h 58m
  • Nov 22, 2022
Course

Ethical Hacking: Exam Review and Tips

  • by Dale Meredith
  • 16m
  • Nov 22, 2022

Ethical Hacking (C|EH Prep) Hands-on Labs

This series can be used to gain hands-on learning for the EC-Council® C|EH® (Certified Ethical Hacker) exam.

Course

Getting Started in the Lab Environment

  • by Aaron Rosenmund
  • 6m
  • Oct 07, 2021
Lab

Network Analysis: Network and Host Discovery

  • by Craig Stansbury
  • 45m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab

Network Attacks: Command and Control

  • by Rishalin Pillay
  • 1h 15m
  • Aug 05, 2025
Lab

Network Attacks: Defense Evasion

  • by Sean Wilkins
  • 1h
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab

Network Attacks: IOT Devices

  • by Kevin Cardwell
  • 40m
  • Jul 30, 2025
Lab

Network Attacks: Lateral Movement

  • by Sahil Gupta
  • 40m
  • Jul 30, 2025
Lab

Network Attacks: Metasploit Payloads

  • by Bri Frost
  • 1h 25m
  • Jul 30, 2025
Lab

Network Attacks: Privilege Escalation

  • by Rishalin Pillay
  • 55m
  • Aug 05, 2025
Lab

Network Attacks: Phishing & Malicious Links

  • by Sahil Gupta
  • 40m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab

Network Attacks: Reverse Shells

  • by Rishalin Pillay
  • 1h
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab

Web Attacks: Automated Scanning with OWASP Zap

  • by Laurentiu Raducu
  • 55m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab

Web Attacks: Brute Force with Burp Suite

  • by Lee Allen
  • 50m
  • Aug 05, 2025
Lab

Web Attacks: Command Injection

  • by Riley Kidd
  • 1h 5m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab

Web Attacks: Enumeration

  • by Lee Allen
  • 1h 40m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab

Web Attacks: SQL Injection

  • by Gavin JohnsonLynn
  • 50m
  • Aug 04, 2025
Lab

Web Attacks: XSS

  • by Laurentiu Raducu
  • 30m
  • Aug 04, 2025
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What You'll Learn
  • You will learn the following domains of ethical hacking:
  • Information Security and Ethical Hacking Overview
  • Reconnaissance Techniques
  • System Hacking Phases and Attack Techniques
  • Network and Perimeter Hacking
  • Web Application Hacking
  • Wireless Network Hacking
  • Mobile Platform, IoT, and OT Hacking
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cryptography
Prerequisites
  • No ethical hacking experience is required for this series, but it is recommended that you possess a strong understanding of TCP/IP and operating systems and have at least one year of experience working with networking technologies.
Related topics
  • penetration testing
  • ethical hacking
  • CEH
  • Certified Ethical Hacker
  • EC Council
  • Pentesting
  • Attacks and Exploits
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Dale Meredith
Dale Meredith
Dale Meredith has been a Certified Ethical Hacker/Instructor EC-Council for the past 15 years, and Microsoft Certified Trainer for over 20 years. Dale also has an additional 7 years of senior IT management experience and worked as a CTO for a popular ISP provider. Dale's expertise is in explaining difficult concepts and ensuring his students have an actionable knowledge of the course material. Straddling the line of fun and function, Dale's instruction is memorable and entertaining. Dale's knowl...
Alexander Tushinsky
Alexander Tushinsky
Alex has spent the past 30+ years working as a software developer, application architect, cybersecurity professional, and technical trainer. He is a lifelong learner and holds over 20 active certifications in IT. Alex is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and enjoys sharing his knowledge with others. He has taught at Rutgers University, Bergen Community College, County College of Morris, College of Southern Nevada, and UNLV. He holds a BS in Software Development and a Masters in Cybersecurity from We...
Peter Mosmans
Peter Mosmans
Peter started out in the nineties as software engineer working on internet banking applications for various European financial institutions. After developing, he moved to the role of defending and designing systems and networks for high-availability websites. Since 2004 he started specializing in breaking: pentesting complex and feature-rich web applications. Currently he leads a global team of highly skilled penetration testers as lead pentester. He is a contributor to several open-source penet...
Michael Teske
Michael Teske
Michael Teske is a principal security author with Pluralsight helping people build their skills toolkit. Michael has 25+ years of experience in the IT Ops/Cloud/Cybersecurity industry including 17 of those years as an IT instructor at a technical college, focusing on Microsoft server infrastructure, security and automation. Michael attained his MBA with an emphasis in Computer Information System Security several years ago. Michael still keeps up with the industry as an independent consultant in ...
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron Rosenmund
Aaron M. Rosenmund is a cyber security operations subject matter expert, with a background in federal and business defensive and offensive cyber operations and system automation. Leveraging his administration and automation experience, Aaron actively contributes to multiple open and closed source security operation platform projects and continues to create tools and content to benefit the community. As an educator & cyber security researcher at Pluralsight, he is focused on advancing cyber secur...
Craig Stansbury
Craig Stansbury
Craig has over 10 years of IT experience, including working on Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco Routes and Switches, Microsoft Servers, and VMWare ESXi. Craig started in IT in the United States Marine Corps and began teaching his Marines all the design and implementation concepts that they needed to know. He loves when his students have the "lightbulb moment" and are able to understand the concepts he is teaching them. Aside from teaching, Craig also owns a business that consults with enterprises to h...
Rishalin Pillay
Rishalin Pillay
Rishalin is a prolific author and cybersecurity expert. He has authored several video courses on Pluralsight, as well as three books: "Learn Penetration Testing", "Offensive Shellcode from Scratch." and "Ethical Hacking Workshop". He is also a technical contributor to many other books on topics such as dark web analysis, Kali Linux, offensive security, and SECOPS. He has received the Microsoft Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions to the cybersecurity industry. Rishal...
Sean Wilkins
Sean Wilkins
Sean Wilkins, with over two decades of experience in the IT industry, serves as a distinguished networking consultant and contributor at Tech Building Blocks. His professional journey spans multiple prominent enterprises, underlining his extensive field expertise. Sean's credentials include esteemed certifications from Cisco (CCNP/CCDP), Microsoft (MCSE), and CompTIA (A+ and Network+). Academically, he has achieved a Master’s of Science in Information Technology, specializing in Network Architec...
Kevin Cardwell
Kevin Cardwell
Kevin Cardwell provides consulting services for companies throughout the world and is an adviser to numerous government entities across the globe. He is an instructor, technical editor, and author for computer forensics and hacking courses. He is author of Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, first and second edition.
Sahil Gupta
Sahil Gupta
Sahil Gupta is a skilled cybersecurity professional with a focus on Product Security. Their expertise lies in implementing DevSecOps practices such as SAST, SCA, DAST, IAST, RASP, WAF, Cloud Native Security, and Supply Chain Security. With certifications including Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv10), IBM Cybersecurity Analyst Professional, and Fortify DAST and SAST Certified Specialist, they excel in conducting comprehensive Penetration testing for Web and API applications. Renowned for their pro...
Bri Frost
Bri Frost
With many years of experience in cybersecurity, Bri brings a red-team mindset to security training. As the Director of Security and IT Ops Curriculum at Pluralsight, she crafts high-impact courses that teach professionals how to defend against real-world cyber threats by understanding attacker techniques. She has led cyber exercises focused on adversary emulation for the Department of Defense, providing critical insights into offensive security tactics. Additionally, her background includes netw...
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Laurentiu Raducu
It all began in highschool, when Laurentiu first started his path in the computer science journey. Initially he started with C++, and fell in love quickly with the prospect of learning to develop software. Thanks to his passion for chess, his first computer program was a console-based ASCII chess game developed in C++. After a while, during university, Laurentiu started to experiment with other OOP programming languages, like Java, Kotlin or Python. He started to play with different tech stacks ...
Lee Allen
Lee Allen
With over two decades of experience in the security industry, Lee is a seasoned professional with a proven track record of delivering top-notch security services to a diverse range of organizations. From Internet Service Providers and computer manufacturers to global pharmaceutical companies, public universities, and a major bank, Lee has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. With experience as a leader of the penetration testing team at a large bank, Lee has developed deep expe...
Riley Kidd
Riley Kidd
Riley has technical security consultancy experience – leading and building teams to deliver projects and outcomes for clients. He has created and facilitated technical trainings across secure coding, python for hackers, offensive operations, and Capture The Flag competitions. Riley has created technical educational content across YouTube, TCM Academy, and his personal Capture The Flag platform – 247CTF. Riley holds a number of certifications including OSCP, OSCE, OSED, OSWE, OSEP, CRTO, CRTL, C...
Gavin JohnsonLynn
Gavin JohnsonLynn
Gavin has 20 years’ experience writing software in regulated environments and for global organisations. The last five years of his development career were spent with a focus on security, becoming the security lead for a significant payments project at a FTSE 100 company. He has experience with languages from COBOL to .Net and many languages in between. Gavin's experience of secure development revealed a passion for security, leading him to become a speaker and blogger on the subject. He has held...

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