Ethical Hacking: The Security Justification

A Hands-on Approach for Teaching Denial of Service Attacks: A Case Study

Nowadays, many academic institutions are including ethical hacking in their information security and Computer Science programs. Information security students need to experiment common ethical hacking techniques in order to be able to implement the appropriate security solutions. This will allow them to more efficiently protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer systems...

Ethical Aspects of Information Security and Privacy

This essay reviews ethical aspects of computer and information security and privacy. After an introduction of ethical approaches to information technology , the focus is first on ethical aspects of computer security. These include the moral importance of computer security, the relation between computer security and national security, the morality of hacking and computer crime, the nature of cyb...

Security evaluation of the Accounting and Monitoring for AAI Services (AMAAIS) platform with the use of ethical hacking instruments

The Ethics of Hacking: Should It Be Taught?

Poor software quality can adversely affect application security by increasing the potential for a malicious breach of a system. Because computer security and cybersecurity are becoming such relevant topics for practicing software engineers, the need for educational opportunities in this area is steadily increasing. Universities and colleges have recognized this, and have started to offer progra...

Framework and principles for active cyber defense

This essay offers a broad view of active defense derived from the concept of active air and missile defense. This view admits a range of cyber defenses, many of which are widely deployed and considered essential in today’s threat environment. Instead of equating active defense to hacking back, this wider interpretation lends itself to distinguishing different types of active defense and the leg...