What is ethical hacking ?

What is ethical hacking?

We all know about 'Hacking'. It's penetrating into someone's system without their permission. An 'Ethical Hacker' is that good hacker, who finds potential threats in a system, to stop other hackers from penetrating into them. 

So, there are three types of hackers: White hat hackers or ethical hackers, grey hat hackers, black hat hackers. 

Black hat hackers are those who hack for their own purposes and do harm to the system. Black Hat hacking is illegal and black hat hackers are actually criminals. Grey hat hackers are actually those hackers who hack just for fun. They don't have a particular reason to hack, and most of the time they don't do any big harm to the system. Grey Hat hacking is also illegal. 

And finally, they added white hat hackers, good hackers who try to penetrate into a system to find out its vulnerabilities. A white hat hackers finally make a report of the vulnerabilities he had found and all the process he has done to penetrate into that system and submit it to the authority. Here the authority can be the system administrator or a company who has hired that ethical hacker. 

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Ethical hackers must maintain these responsibilities:

Number 1, he must have the proper written permission to penetrate into that system, from the system administrator. if an Ethical Hacker tries to hack into a company's system or website, then the hacker must have permission from the company to penetrate into their system and find out the vulnerabilities. 

Number 2, he must respect the individual's or the company's privacy. 

Number three, he must inform the system authority about the vulnerabilities he had found. 

And ethical hacker can work towards being a CEH, a certified ethical hacker. The best certification is done from EC Council. 

Some people think that hacking is hacking, there are no such words like ethical hacking or black Hat hacking. But it's not true. Ethical hackers hack for the good, reports vulnerabilities found in that system to the administrator, and makes no harm to that system, while a Black hat hacker does harm to that system and the hacks that system for his own purposes. Black Hat hacking is illegal while ethical hacking is not illegal. Many companies hire advanced ethical hackers to penetrate into their system and find the vulnerabilities. An ethical hacker can get a high salary job. 

There is no career in black Hat hacking and black Hat hacking can send you to the jail, ethical hackers are highly paid and there is a good career option in ethical hacking. In India there is a huge demand for ethical hackers and penetration testers, there are not so many ethical hackers in India. So this is a great career option in India.

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