Ethical Hacking: Importance, Controversies and Scope in the Future

Abstract

With the ongoing digitalisation of the modern world and our quest to digitalise and automate everything, issues related to cybersecurity such as data breaches, security breaches etc., will be in the spotlight. Therefore, ethical hacking and its importance in the future can't be undermined. Ethical hacking technology has spread to almost all fields of the life and especially to all paths of computer industry; the need to protect the important data of the same should be addressed with right technology. In ethical hacking (i.e., white hat hacking) the objective in hand is to find weaknesses in the security systems and find potential data breaches and is in stark contrast to the almost universal definition of hacking i.e., to breach the security systems of individuals or companies with malicious intent and to steal data and plant viruses (black hat hacking). ethical hacking is a way of combatting and neutralising black hat hackers. With this research paper, my objective is to analyse and establish the importance of ethical hacking and also to analyse the controversies surrounding it, its pros and cons, its ethical and moral boundaries and its scope in the future.