Ethical Hacking - Explained

Ethical Hacking - Explained

Introduction

Ethical hacking is a newly developed field which is stemmed out through the implications of a huge amount of data theft of the organization as well as individuals. Hence, proper training in being given by numerous educational, as well as training institutions all across the world, and has surely taken quite a huge stance in the domain fo assuring the data measurement techniques and thereby dealing with the field of information security.

On the other hand, hacking is somewhat an ambiguous term, which is often referred to as “black-hat hacking,” has provided the negative side of using the technology. Hackers are; in fact, responsible for the birth of the ethical hacking domain. However, ethical hacking has provided a number of sophisticated techniques and tricks which are quite commonly used by a huge amount of hackers to steal information and data of the individual which includes credit card information theft which are quite common nowadays. Hence, in order to develop a better understanding of the problem, it is better knowing about the IT specialists' say on this matter. Once that is done, the implications on the political scenarios are discussed to enlighten the topic. In the end the paper, will address the general public opinion about the potential incorporation of the newly developed technology (Palmer, C. C., 2001).

Discussion

Expert's Opinion

The world has been completely altered since the birth of internet, this has also caused a great deal of enlargement in the fields of electronic commerce in which access to numerous online stores has been made possible using collaborative computing thereby unleashing the horizons for the development of online information distribution and specifically advertising as a potentially profitable industry. This book has also created the impact using the incorporation of the network security system right after the first attack of the hacker. The communicational ease is provided at the cost of inclusion of privacy protection and networking security issues. This has become the most serious and grave concerns of various government as well as organizations personnel. The business wants to attain a competitive edge in the market which makes them go for the internet for activities; like, e-trading and most importantly advertising, this has caused they to be worried about their survival on the internet against hackers and their vulnerable schemes. At the very same time, the customers are also quite worried about the potential of being hacked and get their hands off their credit card as well as social card numbers. In order to coup up with the problem, the organizations and government became looking for professionals who are good at hacking the system and report the potential lapses in the security measures (Farsole, A. A., Kashikar, A. G., & Zunzunwala, A., 2010).

The incorporation of ethical hacking has caused rise to a new discussion of being ethical or un-ethical. Some of Experts have found that the ethical hacking is nothing but to make the organization at risk by providing access to the ethical ...