What is Ethical Hacking?

What is Ethical Hacking?

A big questions that comes in every person's mind when they listen to this phrase "Ethical Hacking". Let me clarify all of you, the technology has grown very rapidly in last few decades and dependency on systems is much more now as compare to past years.

As dependency on system increased, hackers started to attack to these systems for different reasons. Hackers steal, pilfer and redistribute intellectual property leading to business loss. They modify systems or application features to achieve goal outside of the creator's original purpose.

Ethical Hacking involves the use of hacking tools, tricks and techniques to identify vulnerabilities so as to ensure system security. It focuses on simulating techniques used by attackers to verify the existence of exploitable vulnerabilities in the system security. Ethical Hackers performs security assessment of their organization with the permission of concerned authorities.

To think like hackers you need to learn ethical hacking and there are now hundreds of job available in market and IT security is an integral part of every organization. The best certification available in this regard is EC-Council's Certified Ethical Hacker. Its world's best certification to learn ethical hacking. you can have online classes as well as classroom based trainings

Written by: Faisal Iqbal