Where to start?
If you don’t have basic IT knowledge, you should understand the following topics in high level:
- Understand the importance of ethical hacking and penetration testing
- Learn about Footprinting and information gathering
- Acquire technical knowledge of networking basics and protocols
- Learn scanning networks, and how to identify network components
- Enumeration of services
- System-wide overview
- Get familiar with malwares, understand their behaviour
- Learn about Sniffing
- What is social engineering?
- Denial Of Service vectors
- Sessions and their hijacking techniques
- Known vulnerabilities and vulnerability databases
- Web application security overview
- Wireless networks
- Mobile platforms, and their weak points
- IDS, Firewalls and Honeypots
- What is cloud computing, and how are these services being managed
- Cryptography
If you have a basic overview of the topics mentioned above, you can start going forward for the next section. There are plenty of articles in these topics, so I can’t provide you a better collection than Google do it for you. I can only lead the way for your learning path.
