Ethical Hacking & IT Security

Ethical Hacking sometimes called as Penetration Testing is an act of intruding/penetrating into system or networks to find out threats, vulnerabilities in those systems which a malicious attacker may find and exploit causing loss of data, financial loss or other major damages. The purpose of ethical hacking is to improve the security of the network or systems by fixing the vulnerabilities found during testing. Ethical hackers may use the same methods and tools used by the malicious hackers but with the permission of the authorized person for the purpose of improving the security and defending the systems from attacks by malicious users. As almost every organization now days have its own website, database servers, which handle and stores confidential data related to the future and on-going projects, staff details, customer’s details, member’s login credentials, credit card details and other sophisticated data. An Information Security Expert is a first Priority personal required for the security of this data. As we put it, to beat a hacker, you need to think like a hacker