So we have talked about hacking and we've talked about how hacking in the cybersecurity sense is a bad
thing.
But thankfully, there is a discipline and we we love it.
We're all about this discipline.
It's ethical hacking.
It's using hacking skills.
But for good, how is this possible?
Well, we are a white hat hacker, and we are going to be hired by an organization to be constantly
seeking out vulnerabilities, to be constantly keeping up with how black cats are attacking us, what
are the vulnerabilities they're looking for?
What are the types of attacks they are performing?
We're going to be constantly applying our networking and our systems skills, and this means that we'll
really be students of the communications between systems and those systems themselves.
And we're going to be giving you in this ultimate guide a lot of the information that you would need
about networking in systems to give you a huge head start in this environment.
This is one of the reasons why this ultimate guide is such a huge seller here at Udemy.
Now we're going to be taking a look at the exact same tools and using the same tools as black cats do.
And you'll hear me mention it more than once.
We always need to stay ethical, and this means we can't violate any of the guidelines our organization
may have put forth against using these tools.
Think about it.
Maybe you're in the headquarters of your enterprise where you're hired as a white hat hacker, and that's
not your job title.
It's more like cyber security analysts level one.
So you're a cyber security analyst, level one, and you are working for the organization and you're
at the headquarters location and you trigger a whole bunch of security alarms because you're experimenting
with one of the black hat tools.
And this would be unethical for you to do because it violates the security policy in place at your organization.
So we're going to be very careful as white hat hackers to make sure that we are performing our responsibilities
but within a defined scope, and that will be adhering to the limitations of what we can do.
And in fact, we'll be elaborating on that coming up.
Ethical hacking is so great because it allows us to understand the attackers.
We have to know thy enemy.
If we are to properly protect ourselves, we need to know who they are, what their motivations are,
what their techniques are going to be, what their tactics, what their procedures will be like.
So we need to really study them and know their tools and know their procedures so that we can make it
well worth our salary for an organization to help protect their systems by using the very best and most
appropriate security controls.
Now, as a white hat hacker, you're constantly answering questions for your organization, like what
can potential adversaries see?
What can they do against visible resources?
And when they do attack, are they visible?
Can we actually see and trace their attacks?
It is also critical that we be able to explain to the organization how they are going to be able to
see attackers when they do show up.
So we're going to be helping them set up sophisticated systems, maybe even Sims, and that is spelled
S I e m, which is going to be a very sophisticated management platform for correlating and being able
to analyze security events that have happened in our environment.
So SIM is a great, great concept that you need to be aware of.
This may be how we're helping the organization see attackers as they show up.
Notice this is an incredibly exciting field, and notice that this is a field that's going to challenge
us because we are going to be consistently and constantly studying the attacks that are now possible
in an ever changing technological landscape.