How Ethical Hacking Boosts Cybersecurity and What It Means for Your Firm
Ethical Hacker Remesh Ramachandran Shares His Thoughts on Hacking Cybercrime and its expensive consequences has been forecasted to surpass over $2 trillion by this year end. When faced with this looking threat, firms have explored a combination of conventional and unconventional methods to combat the threat to their organisation. One of the unconventional approaches include leveraging on the expertise of ethical or white hat hackers. White hat hackers are not the typical villains typing code in green font on black monitors as movies made us believe. Ethical hackers are individuals that have expertise in hacking, but do so with the permission of the organisation engaging their services. In simple, ethical hackers help firms identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in their digital systems, as opposed to taking advantage of weaknesses for personal gain. “White hat hackers are more like expert penetration testers who test for security vulnerabilities in an information system by r...