Welcome to Hacking For Dummies. This book outlines computer hacker
tricks and techniques — in plain English — to assess the security of
your own information systems, find security vulnerabilities, and fix the vulnerabilities
before malicious and criminal hackers have an opportunity to
take advantage of them. This hacking is the professional, aboveboard, and
legal type of security testing — which I call ethical hacking throughout the
book. Computer and network security is a complex subject and an evermoving
target. You must stay on top of it to ensure your information is protected
from the bad guys.
You can implement all the security technologies and other best practices
possible, and your information systems may be secure — as far as you know.
However, until you understand how hackers think and apply that knowledge
to assess your systems from a hacker's-eye view, you can't get a true sense of
how secure your information really is.
Ethical hacking — sometimes referred to as penetration testing or white-hat
hacking — is a necessary requirement to ensure that information systems are
truly secure on an ongoing basis. This book provides you with the knowledge
required to successfully implement an ethical hacking program, along with
countermeasures that you can implement to keep malicious hackers out of
your business.
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