On the first day of my Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing class, I learned many things about the introduction regarding ethical hacking and penetration test. There are many terms that I learned such as:
- Ethical Hackers: Someone who employed by companies to do penetration testing(with permission)
- Penetration Test: An attempt to break into company’s system or network to find the vulnerabilities inside it and always ends with report findings.
- Hackers: Someone who access the computer system or network without any permission/authorization
- Crackers: Someone who access the computer system to destroy or steal data
- Script Kiddies/Packet Monkey: A young inexperienced hackers who copy techniques from an experienced hacker
- Tiger Box: A collection of hacking tools for penetration testers
- White box model: A model where penetration tester is told everything about the network topologies
- Black box model: A model where penetration tester is not given details about the network
- Gray box model: A model where the company gives partial information about the network topologies to the penetration tester
- Red team: A team that performing penetration testing to a specific target
- Blue team: A team that defend the system from the attackers
In conclusion, those terms are very important for me before I learn further about the penetration test and ethical hacker.