Ethical Hacking: A Security Technique

Abstract

Today, state of internet security is major problem. Ethical hacking is a security technic and also a type of
hacking. Hacking is not specific term, it’s an activity in which hacker can identified weakness in computer system and
exploiting weakness to gain access is termed as hacking. Almost all the work is done over the internet crucial data are
sent over the web and other information is placed over internet. While all the data is available online, there are many
type of users who interact with data some of them for their need and others for gaining knowledge that how to destroy the
data without the knowledge of the owner. There are various techniques used for protection of data but the hacker (or
cracker) is more intelligent to hack the security, basically there are two categories of hackers that are different from
each other on the basis of their intensions. The one who has good intensions are known as ethical hackers because they
ethics to use their skill and techniques of hacking to provide security to the sensitive data of the organization.