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This Edureka PPT on "Ethical Hacking Career" will give you a sneak peek into the career of an Ethical Hacker. The following topics are discussed throughout the course of this PPT:
Who is an Ethical Hacker?
Ethical Hacker Roadmap
Ethical Hacker Skills
Ethical Hacker Job Trends
Companies Hiring
Ethical Hacker Salary
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2. Who is an Ethical Hacker?
Roadmap to become an Ethical Hacker
Roles and Responsibilities
Skills Required
Job Trends
Companies
Salary
Agenda
3. Who
is an
Ethical Hacker?
An Ethical Hacker, also known as a White Hat Hacker, is a network security
expert who penetrates systems with prior permission to point out major
vulnerabilities and security flaws that could potentially result to loss of privacy
or even major business loss.
Interest in Cybersecurity
Time
5. Roles
and
Responsibilities
Scanning open and closed ports using reconnaissance tools like Nessus and NMAP. Scanning is a set of
procedures for identifying live hosts, ports, and services, discovering Operating system and
architecture of target system, Identifying vulnerabilities and threats in the network. Network scanning
is used to create a profile of the target organization.
6. Roles
and
Responsibilities
It is the responsibility of an Ethical Hacker to engage his organisations member in social engineering
awareness activities. Social Engineering for the purpose of Hacking has proven to be one of the most
effective ways over time and knowing how to avoid any form of social manipulation is key to
organisations security!
7. Roles
and
Responsibilities
Ethical Hackers also get to test new patch releases and software updates pertaining to the companies
products and peripherals. It is their responsibility to identify any vulnerability that might exist in the
patch and notify the appropriate team to fix them.
8. Roles
and
Responsibilities
Ethical Hackers are also responsible for building and maintaining effective intrusion prevention and
intrusion detection system. IDS/IPS help monitor traffic and prevent any sort of DDOS attacks that might
be targeted.
9. Roles
and
Responsibilities
Ethical hackers are responsible for employing strategies like sniffing networks, bypassing
and cracking wireless encryption, and hijacking web servers and web applications for
testing security of a system.
10. Skills
Required
Sniffing is the process of monitoring and capturing all the packets passing
through a given network using sniffing tools. It is a form of “tapping phone
wires” and get to know about the conversation. It is also called wiretapping
applied to the computer networks.
11. Skills
Required
Ethical Hackers should know how to orchestrate different types of Network and
Database attacks as their main job is to predict black hat hackers and to do this
one must be able to think and act like a black hat hacker.
12. Skills
Required
Ethical Hackers have to deal with different kind of
operating systems on a daily basis with Linux being the
daily driver. So, it is obvious that an Ethical Hacker needs
to have an in depth knowledge of the working of
operating systems in general
13. Skills
Required
Ethical Hackers have to deal with different
kind of database formats. Whether it be SQL,
PostgreSQL, NoSQL an Ethical Hacker at least
needs a general knowledge of their working.
14. Skills
Required
An Ethical Hacker should also be proficient in
cryptanalysis, which is basically the
deciphering of cipher text without knowing
the key. This is also the fundamentals of
Password cracking using different methods
like brute force, dictionary attacks etc
15. Skills
Required
Ethical Hackers generally are endowed with the responsibility of network
traffic monitoring. Therefore they must be proficient in intrusion
detection and prevention techniques, session hijacking knowledge and
overall an in depth knowledge of network in general
16. Skills
Required
Ethical Hackers also have to make custom software to tackle the use case
specific security flaws that might be affecting the company. This requires
general programming knowledge so that you can execute solutions to
problems. It also helps in automating a lot pf tasks that would generally
take a lot of precious time