Ethical Hacking

As technology is advancing, organizations incorporate more and more IT systems into their business to assist and simplify their operations and processes, and it becomes necessary to test the safety and security of these IT systems. Small and medium enterprises also known as SMEs, are at high risk of cyber-attacks. According to the 2020 Cyber ​​Security Breaches Survey, 68% of all central businesses in the United Kingdom have experienced at least one security breach or attack in the last 12 months. This is partly because many SMEs do not see themselves as targeted and therefore many do not do enough to protect themselves, but even those who are aware of the risk often do not have enough resources to protect themselves. The study also revealed that 75% of large businesses are also affected.

Behavioural hacking or login testing, allows organizations to identify and correct weaknesses and errors in the security of their computer systems, networks, and data. While malicious hackers or black hat hackers get into the information and IT programs of malicious and self-serving organizations, whereas, organized criminals or white hackers are hired by the company owner and are given access to the network and computers using the same tools and criminal information but to weaken the system of the programs and networks. Their work is carried out in a formal manner and through this, they can then recommend preventive and remedial measures to prevent cyber-attacks. Moral hackers use many methods to detect danger. They use port scanning tools such as Mmap, Wireshark, or Nessus to scan company plans, analyse open ports, study the harbours of each port and take corrective measures. They also carefully monitor patch installation processes to ensure that no new risks are introduced to use software updates and exploit them. Using the right tools, they also do traffic network analysis. Behavioural hackers rely on social engineering techniques to deceive end users and get information about the organization's computer system. Like black hat hackers, reputable criminals who monitor social media or GitHub, engage employers in criminal attacks by stealing sensitive information via email, or roam the premises with a notice board to exploit threats to physical security. However, ethical hackers are given limitations on their social engineering strategies such as making physical threats to employers or other types of efforts to add access to information or information to keep their hacking legitimate.