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FEE POLICY

CEH penetration testing certification requires an $80 annual membership fee. This

makes the certificate holders eligible to the following benefits:

• Continued support from the EC-Council community.

• One free certification voucher.
• Exclusive discounts on EC-Council events, certification programs and materials.

WHY BECOME AN ETHICAL HACKER?

The terms penetration testing and ethical hacking are often interchangeable; however,
there is a difference. The former is a more narrow term for the process of finding

vulnerabilities in a target IT system. Penetration testers should be skilled in a specific

area (for example, network penetration testing) and are not required to possess any
formal proficiency credentials. Ethical hacking, in its turn, can be called advanced

penetration testing. It encompasses application and network penetration testing,
together with DDoS testing and social engineering. Ethical hackers should possess

CEH certification, while penetration testers are not required to have any certificates.

It pays to be a certified ethical hacker for several reasons:

• To get better salary. According to the InfoSec Institute, the average payout to a
Certified Ethical Hacker in US is $71,331 per year (non-certified pentesters are

paid $50,000 a year on average) and reaches $132,322.

• To be highly valued on the professional market. Customers consider CEH
certification among the key factors in their hiring decisions.

• To discover more career opportunities. A certified ethical hacker is not limited
to penetration testing and may take on the roles of a security engineer,

application security manager, IT security administrator, information security

consultant, security compliance engineer and network security analyst.

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