What is Ethical Hacking and what is it used for?

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What is Ethical Hacking and what is it used for? mujermodelo.com/read-blog/1931

Ethical Hacking is a practice of bypassing system security to identify implicit data breaches in a network. The company that owns the system or network allows Cyber Security masterminds to perform similar conditioning in order to test the system’s defenses. What's Ethical Hacking?

Ethical Hacking is a practice of bypassing system security to identify implicit data breaches in a network. The company that owns the system or network allows Cyber Security masterminds to perform similar conditioning in order to test the system’s defenses. Therefore, unlike vicious hacking, this process is planned, approved, and more importantly, legal. Ethical hackers aim to investigate the system or network for weak points that vicious hackers can exploit or destroy. They collect and dissect the information to figure out ways to strengthen the security of the system/ network/ operations. Ethical hackers are hired by associations to look into the vulnerabilities of their systems and networks and develop results to help data breaches. Consider it a high-tech permutation of the old saying “ It takes a pincher to catch a pincher.” They check for crucial vulnerabilities include but aren't limited to Injection attacks Changes in security settings Exposure of sensitive data

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