Ethical Hacking to enhance the security

Ethical Hacking sometimes called as Penetration Testing is a demonstration of intruding/penetrating into system or networks to discover threats, vulnerabilities in those systems which a malevolent aggressor may discover and misuse causing loss of data, financial loss or other major harms.

The reason for Ethical Hacking is to enhance the security of the network or systems by fixing the vulnerabilities discovered amid testing. Ethical hackers may utilize similar strategies and apparatuses utilized by the noxious programmers however with the consent of the approved individual to improve the security and protecting the systems from attacks by malicious users.

Advantages of Ethical Hacking

The greater part of the advantages of ethical hacking are self-evident, however many are ignored. The advantages go from basically averting malevolent hacking to avoiding national security ruptures.

• Fighting against terrorism and national security breaches
• Having a computer system that prevents malicious hackers from gaining access
• Having adequate preventative measures in place to prevent security breaches

Ethical hacker hacking techniques such as −

• Password guessing and cracking
• Session hijacking
• Session spoofing
• Network traffic sniffing
• Denial of Service attacks
• Exploiting buffer overflow vulnerabilities
• SQL injection

Ethical Hacking – Hacker Types

White Hat Hackers

White Hat Hackers never plan to harm a system, who has some expertise in penetration testing and in other testing approaches that ensure the security of an association’s information systems.

Black Hat Hackers

Black hat hackers are the stereotypical illegal hacking groups often portrayed in popular culture, and are “the epitome of all that the public fears in a computer criminal”. Black hat hackers break into secure networks to destroy, modify, or steal data, or to make the networks unusable for authorized network users.

Grey Hat Hackers

Grey hat hackers are a blend of both black hat and white hat hackers. They act without pernicious purpose yet for their fun, they abuse a security shortcoming in a computer system or network without the owner’s permission or knowledge.