Ethical hacking: Skills to fight cybersecurity threats

Abstract

Ethical hacking education prepares future information security professionals with the tools and skills to fight and prevent cybersecurity threats. Businesses, schools, governments, and individuals have an increasing concern to keep their systems, networks, and data secure from outside threats. Most information security technologies use a defensive approach to keep client’s data safe; however, ethical hacking provides one of the only proactive/aggressive methods for information security professionals to utilize. Teaching inexperienced information security professionals these aggressive tactics can be viewed as a double-edged sword. Since they are the same methods used by malicious hackers, educating new security professionals will undoubtedly educate more malicious hackers.