A Look Inside The World Of Ethical Hacking To Benefit Security
InformationWeek, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
What makes a good hacker, and how can the ethical ones strengthen enterprise cybersecurity?
Ethical hackers can go by different names: white hats, penetration testers, and pen testers among them. The big differentiator between ethical hacking and malicious or criminal hacking is intent. The process of hacking remains the same: Find ways to gain access to a computer system or network.
'Ethical hackers don't maliciously trigger exploits on vulnerabilities that they find. Their goal is to notify the company or the organization that they have a problem in hopes that they'll fix it,' explains Jason Kent, hacker-in-residence at Cequence Security, an API security and bot management company.