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I would like to welcome you to this course on Ethical Hacking. This is the first lecture of this course. Now, in this lecture, I will try to give you a very overall idea about what ethical hacking exactly is, what are the scopes of an ethical hacker and towards the end, I shall give you some idea about the coverage of this course — what are the things we are expected to cover ok. So, the title of this lecture is Introduction to Ethical Hacking.
Now, in this lecture as I told you, firstly we shall try to tell you what is ethical hacking? There is a related terminological penetration testing, we will also be discussing about that. And some of the roles of an ethical hacker, what an ethical hacker is expected to do and what he or she is not expected to do that we shall try to distinguish and discuss.
So, let us first start with the definition of ethical hacking. What exactly is ethical hacking? Well, we all have heard the term hacking and hacker essentially the term has been associated with something which is bad and malicious. Well, when we hear about somebody as a hacker, we are a little afraid and cautious ok. I mean as if the person is always trying to do some harm to somebody else to some other networks, try to steal something, trying to steal something from some IT infrastructure and so on and so forth.
But ethical hacking is something different. Well, ethical hacking as per the definition if you just look at it, it essentially refers to locating the weaknesses and vulnerabilities. It means suppose you have a network, you have an organizational network, you have an IT, IT infrastructure, you have computers which contains some software, some data, lot of things are there. Now, you try a, I mean here you are trying to find out, whether your infrastructural network does have some weak points or vulnerabilities through which an actual hacker can break into your system, into your network.
So, this ethical hacking is the act of locating weaknesses and vulnerabilities in computers and information system in general, it covers everything, it covers networks, it cover databases, everything. But how this is done, this is done by mimicking the behaviour of a real hacker as if you are a hacker, you are trying to break into your own network, there you will get lot of information about what are the weak points in your own network. So,
this term is important, by replicating the intent and actions of malicious hackers, whatever malicious hackers do in reality, you try to mimic that, you try to replicate that ok.
Your objective is to try and find out the vulnerabilities and weak points in your network. Well, you have a good intent, you try to identify the weaknesses and later on maybe the organization will be trying to plug out or stop those weaknesses, so that such attacks cannot occur or happen in the future ok. This ethical hacking is sometimes also referred to by some other names, penetration testing is a well-known terminology which is used — a phrase, intrusion testing, red teaming, these are also terminologies which are used to mean the same thing.
Well, you can understand penetration testing, the literal meaning of this phrase is, you are trying to penetrate into a system; you are trying to penetrate into a network, you are testing and find out whether or not you are able to penetrate. And if you are able to penetrate which are the points through which it is easier to penetrate, these are the objectives ok, all right.
So, talking about ethical hacking, there are some terminology, let us see. Well ethical hackers are the persons who are actually carrying out ethical hacking. Now, they are not some unknown entities, they are some organization or persons who are actually hired by the company. The company is paying them some money to do a penetration testing on their own network and provide them with a list of vulnerabilities, so that they can take
some action later on ok. So, these ethical hackers are employed by companies who typically carry out penetration testing or ethical hacking. Penetration testing, as I had said is an attempt to break into a network or a system or an infrastructure.
But the difference from malicious attempt is that this is a legal attempt. The company has permitted you to run the penetration testing on their own network for the purpose of finding the vulnerabilities. So, this is a legal attempt, you are trying to break in and you are trying to find out the weak links. Well, in penetration testing per se what the tester will do, tester will basically generate a report. The report will contain a detailed report; it will contain all the known vulnerabilities that have been detected in the network as a result of running the penetration testing process ok.
But normally they do not provide solutions. Well, you can also seek solutions for them, but everything comes with an extra or additional charge right. So, in contrast, security test is another terminology which is used, which includes penetration test plus this kind of suggestions to plug out the loopholes. So, this includes in addition analyzing the company security policies and offering solutions, because ultimately the company will try to secure or protect their network. Of course, there are issues, there may be some limited budget. So, within that budget whatever best is possible that have to be taken care of or incorporated. So, these are some decisions the company administration will have to take fine.
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Who wants to start a new Career or just want to know more About Ethica Hacking
