Research on Ethical Hacking

Hacking is defined as the process of exploiting the sensitive and valuable information of any system, group, or any organization which may even lead to leak of any confidential information or data. Deriving from the concept of hacking, ethical hacking is a kind of hacking meant for societal benefit, for helping governmental organizations, or may even help the organizations to test and analyze its security. Which in turn, helps an individual or an organization to counter any security threats or vulnerabilities. Ethical hacking is one of the most important modern-day techniques to keep our privacy in check. The aim of this paper is to find out the process involved in ethical hacking and penetration testing in network security, with a view to exploring whether ethical hacking can be applied to the field of cyber-security.