INTRODUCTION
Ethical Hacking is basically a form of hacking that is used for good reasons. Ethical hackers work similar to any other hacker but with the purpose of spotting loopholes in the security system in order to create better systems to prevent breach. Owing to the growing need of ethical hackers, this field is now emerging as a promising career option. A lot of government organizations are recruiting ethical hackers in their respective IT teams.
According to a survey conducted all over India, the job opportunities for ethical hackers is expected to grow over 77 thousand. Let us have a look at the prospects of a government job for ethical hackers in India.
Ethical hacking, also known as penetration testing, intrusion testing or red teaming is used to find loopholes in an IT system and break into it. An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. This work is ethical because it is performed to increase the safety of the computer systems, but only at the request of the company that owns the system and specifically to prevent others from attacking it. With the increasing use of the internet, it has become an essential part of IT security industry today.
Ethical Hacking involve the use of hacking tools, tricks and techniques to identify vulnerablities so as to ensure system security. It focuses on simulating techniques used by attacks to verify the existence of exploitable vulnerablities an the system security.
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