Applications of Ethical Hacking Techniques to Software Professionals with respect to Behavioral Science
Anita Gaikwad, R. V. Kulkarni · 2012
The Information for the organization is an asset which has to be protected from the unauthorized persons and misuse for some other illegal issues, the hacking has been very common on the internet and it has affected the organization in terms of money, resources loss and image loss. The Hacking can also be ethical which can be made for positive use in the net environment. The knowledge of the programmer can be utilized for the security of the software’s in the Internet environment. The software professionals like progrmmmers, software analyst, testers are going to benefit by this technique of ethical hacking. The authors have discussed the mind set of the ethical hackers and use of their technical knowledge for the solution of security problems in the network environment. Security of password, login names, financial transactions are the areas of concern for the organizations those dealing online. The activities of the Internet are widely affected by countries policies and rules. The paper highlights on the ethical hacking concepts and application of theses techniques to software professional in order to information security issues. The Hackers though have negative trait of mind the ethical hackers are also human beings which have positive trait of mind which help the professional in Computer field to maintain the security in systems and networks. The hacking is habit of the programmers in the society