Auditing: Self-Hacking
Stephen W. James · Encyclopedia of Information Assurance · 2010
AsorganizationscontinuetolinktheirinternalnetworkstotheInternet,systemmanagersandadministrators are becoming increasingly aware of the need to secure their systems. The self-hack audit (SHA) is an approach that uses hacker methods to identify and eliminate security weaknesses in a network before they are discovered by a hacker. This entry describes the most common hacker techniques that have allowed unauthorized persons to gain access to computer resources and provides steps for network administrators to improve network security.