Wednesday, February 13, 2013

What are the roles of an ethical hacker?


Today hacking is one of the most serious cyber crimes of the world. The hackers get into the company’s security system to steal database and information. In this the companies are losing their data secrecy and hamper in the growth prospect. To counteract such incidents in the future they are hiring certifiedethical hacker from all across the globe. The work of the white hat hacker is to find the weakness in the current system and find out a solution to strengthen it from such attacks. The black hat hackers use botnets, Trojan, malwares, viruses, phishing and identity stealing which are quite common in the online internet user. These are creating complete chaos in the security system of the various organizations and so the companies are investing huge amount of money in securing it. There is a huge demand for ethical hackers from all across the world. Thus, it is one of the most sought after courses of the world.

To be a certified hacker one has to be an expert of programming of JAVA, C++, Python, Perl, lisp, Unix etc. Among them HTML and UNIX is the most important as it is the basis of the internet and you have to be an expert in other programming also. They are trained to think like a black hacker and the different activities of them. Ethical hacking is involved in attacking the system which helps them to find the weakness and a more strong solution is taken to avoid future occurrence. This is an ideal course for security officers, security personnel and administrative body of websites. There are many bodies like E. council is coming up with the personnel to stop this nuisance happening worldwide.

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