"Someone who
relates to technology as a form of play" Lee Felsenstein
The term hacker is used in
popular media to describe someone who try to gain the unauthorized access to once system or attempts to break into computer systems. Hacker would be a proficient programmer with sufficient knowledge to understand the weak points in a security
system, might cause serious security threat to confidentiality and integrity of data.
Reason why most of the organization spent a lot in term of security is more or more
organization moving their business process online. Because in an organization consist of various electronic documents that contain critical and highly confidential data and due to which organizations make a significant investment to properly protect these
documents.
Some technique hacker use to
get access to a website inside.
Hacking does have some
advantage to business,
- building awareness about the protection and security at all levels
- finding out the possible vulnerabilities
- suggesting effective security procedure
- providing a support for current and future IT activities
A professional hacker, hired by many organization and asked to break their system just to determine any security flaw in system. A hacker helps an
organization in understanding the importance of security with their
experience of hacking, and displays the ways or series of steps an intruder can
actually perform to harness the company resources for his own purpose. Professional security experts can efficiently by-pass the security
solutions and can gain access to the
confidential data repository and network resources without any authentication.
Afterwards, they reports all the possible threat areas and appropriate solution
for the same in order to secure the organizational resources and perimeter
efficiently.