computer security project

White hat hacking

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The development of the information systems has advanced the abilities of hackers to access the information systems of organizations. The rise and increase of cases of system breaching in various organization facilitated the emergence of different types of hackers. These hackers were named according to the hacking they conducted. The white hat hackers in particular conducted penetration into the testing of the security system of organization with the main aim being to improve the system. The white hat hackers are regarded as the ethical hackers who do their hacking with a good intention that means to facilitate the systems in an organization. The main aim of the white hat hackers is to improve the systems of an organization so that they can prevent them from being exploited by malicious hackers. The white hat hackers provide knowledge of the hackers that will improve the security systems to function much better. The skills that the hackers provide to the organization enable the organization to prevent and even detect the attempts that hackers might have before they even happen. The hackers enable safe functioning of the security systems by preventing software that limits the abilities of the workers from accessing the computers in the organization.

Introduction

There are many companies and institutions that have faced breach of their systems from hackers that caused damages in the running of the activities. Hackers cause failure of systems operating within an institution and delay the process of service delivery and production. The various accesses by hackers in the companies brought about huge losses in these companies that were facilitated by their security systems being vulnerable to access by hackers. This facilitated the emergence of the white hat hacking that could help mitigate these occurrences. The white hat hacking involves the process through which a computer security expert who has his specialization in penetration testing and testing other methodologies that ensure the security of information system in an organization.

The white hat hacking process is carried out with the intention of bringing out the vulnerabilities that the systems of an organization contain. These vulnerabilities are basically the loopholes to the access of the security systems of a company as they provide opportunities for hackers to access the systems easily. The information systems of organizations really enhance the effectiveness of the running of the organization and keep the organizational operations secure. The white hat hacking is not harmful to the organization and does not cause harm to the security systems of the organization (Matthews and Goerzen, 2019). The process facilitates the organization with an opportunity to overlook at their security system standards.

The white hat hacking is important especially in improving the organizations security systems. This is achieved through the organization taking some skills that have the white hat hackers have and integrating them into their programs to increase their safety and effectiveness. This will prevent the malicious hackers from accessing the vulnerabilities that will reduce their chances of exploiting the security systems. This knowledge and skills have the advantage to the organizations as it will enhance the abilities of the systems to detect the attempts of malicious hackers into the security systems.

The white hat hackers are beneficial to an organization as they ensure that the systems of the company are protected. The white hat hackers ensure that there is tight security by protecting the computers from software that are likely to slow down the production. This generally helps to prevent the software from reducing and limiting the capacity of the workers (Al-Sharif, Iqbal, Baker and Khattack, 2016). The process improves accountability within the organization by ensuring that data is prevented from being stolen. The white hat hackers ensure that financial data is not stolen in the cases where there is a data breach.

The white hat hacking process is important to the organization as it is proactive in that it predicts an occurrence before it happens. The organizations are able to deal with the vulnerability issues before they occur making the process a cost effective one on fixing the security gap before it has been exploited. The white hat hackers offer the organizations with adequate measures that should be put in place to improve the security systems of the organization (Brown, 2015). In many occasions, white at hacking is considered the ethical hacking for the reason that it does aim at harming the organization but improving it by increasing its efficiency.

References

Al-Sharif, S., Iqbal, F., Baker, T., & Khattack, A. (2016, November). White-hat hacking framework for promoting security awareness. In 2016 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) (pp. 1-6). IEeE.

Brown, C. (2015). White or Black Hat? An Economic Analysis of Computer Hacking.

Matthews, J., & Goerzen, M. (2019, May). Black Hat Trolling, White Hat Trolling, and Hacking the Attention Landscape. In Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference (pp. 523-528). ACM.