Ethical Hacking: Basics for Defenders
Ethical Hacking: Basics for Defenders Ethical hacking is the practice of testing systems with permission to find weaknesses before bad actors do. For defenders, this means thinking like an attacker while following rules and ethics. The goal is not to break things, but to strengthen them by seeing how a system could be misused and where it is weak. A safe, repeatable process helps. Start with the defender’s toolkit: map the network and software, identify critical assets, and check controls such as authentication, access, and logging. Then run light scans to discover exposed services, missing patches, or weak configurations. Finally, verify that detected issues are tracked and remediated. ...