Tuesday, January 22, 2013

What is Penetration Testing ?

Penetration testing is a legal and authorished method to exploit the computer system to make the system more secure .
Penetration Testing is also known as -
  • White Hat Hacking
  • Pen Testing
  • Ethical Hacking
Points That Every Ethical Hacker should have -
  • The More you learn ,the more power you have . So decide yourself where you will use your power for good or bad .
  • An ethical hacker should think like a real black hat hacker.
  • An Ethical Hacker should have a authorization to conduct a test .
  • A White Hat Hacker always respect the authorization and scope of the Penetration Testing .
  • Ethical Hacker never shares the sensitive information discovered during the process of a penetration testing with anyone other than the client .
Ethical Hacking is step-by-step process so we also move further step wise:-
  • Reconnaissance
  • Scanning
  • Exploitation
  • Maintaining Access

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