Essential Skills for Ethical Hackers.

There are two types hackers: the ethical and criminal ones.

Ethical hackers play an important role in our society. They are antidotes to criminal hackers. They must possess a wide variety of skills.

Criminal hackers cost millions of dollars to the economy.

Society needs ethical hackers to address this economic problem.

Ethical hackers support people and businesses. They help improve conditions, resolve difficult situations, and prevent threats and vulnerabilities. They are known as white hat hackers in the industry.

Ethical hackers proactively monitor the systems, identify gaps, inform the stakeholders, create a plan of action, and help execute the plan. Ethical hackers must be more knowledgeable and skillful than criminal hackers.

Ethical hackers are equipped with various powerful security management tools. The most prominent tool-set is the sniffer, also known as the packet analyzer. A packet analyzer is a software or hardware (appliance) program that can intercept in the network and capture network traffic (as communication packets).

In addition to understanding the systems and solutions, ethical hackers also understand regulatory, safety, security and industry compliance requirements. Digital products and services consumption by the public requires rigorous compliance review, auditing, and corrective actions.

From my experience, here are the six critical skills in broad categories for ethical hackers need to perform well and be productive.

Here are the six essential skills required from ethical hackers to perform their job and sustain their performance.

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