The **CPENT** is an advanced hands-on certification that teaches you how to perform penetration tests on complex enterprise networks (IoT, OT, Cloud, etc.). It goes well beyond the CEH.
Answer : Sniffing (e.g., using Wireshark).
Allows testers to view cleartext packets on the network, such as unencrypted passwords.
Answer : Systematically trying every possible character combination to discover a password.
Exhaustive but eventually effective for short or predictable passwords.
Answer : Open Source Intelligence.
The collection of information from publicly available sources like social media and forums.
Answer : DNS Cache Poisoning.
Facilitates large-scale Man-in-the-Middle attacks by subverting standard name resolution.
Answer : Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP.
Intercepts and modifies HTTP/HTTPS requests to test for flaws like SQLi and XSS.