Ethical Hacking

Not all hackers are malicious, some hackers can be ethical, and work to help organisations defend themselves from malicious hackers. These ethical hackers may be employed to break into an test the security features of a computer system. They report any issues they find so that they can be addressed.

This is called penetration testing

We use a coloured hat system for identifying what kind of hacker someone is.

• White hat hackers are ethical hackers and carry out their activities with permission (authorised access)
• Grey hat hackers are ethical hackers but will hack systsems without permission. They may hack a system to bring attention to a security problem, or for a "bug bounty".
• Black hat hackers are malicious hackers