Ethical Hacking and Positive ways to ‘hack’ in today’s IT world22 Apr
Ethical Hacking
Part of ensuring that your IT department is doing things properly is testing out your security strategies. Thousands and thousands of dollars are spent on Penetration Testing by large companies who fear that they may be easily compromised. Wouldn’t it be super cool to have the ability to help a company tighten up their security? With some training you could soon be an ethical hacker with this ability.
The whole idea here is to ‘ethically hack’ your own sites to ensure their security levels are acceptable. With the rise of EVERYTHING going digital, the risks are definitely going to be larger as time progresses.
To learn more, perhaps sign up for some classes to be a security expert, learn how to create and maintain a proper DMZ or De-Militarized Zone on your network, which may be your last defense against any cyber attacks.
Learn about things like ‘honey pots’ which are areas on your network designed to ‘allow’ hackers an area to seemingly break into while you actually observe their behavior to assist in identifying if they are a real threat or not and possibly to identify where their connection is originating from and why.
This field is ever expanding with the rising payscales for intrusion detection and more and more security related positions opening up. Perhaps it is time to reevaluate your Role in IT Security and increase your knowledge base about exploits and holes in your current server setups.
Some points of interest include:
The Hacking Cycle – You will learn how to get Certification as an ‘Ethical Hacker’ (CEH) so that you can hack according to the law and not be worried about any ‘wrongful’ prosecutions based on your ability to penetrate client’s vulnerable servers.
So get Certified today by the EC-Council where the Training Modality can depend on which type of IT security hacking has been achieved in specific situations already and by real world example. Topics covered by the EC-Council include the following:
-Security Fundamentals
-Ethical Hacking
-Penetration Testing
-Computer Forensics
-Disaster Recovery
-Secure Programming
Wouldn’t it be super cool to get paid to ‘hack’ stuff and be ‘ethical’ about it without any worries?
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