Ethical Hacking Methodologies: A Comparative Analysis

As networks are expanding day by day, the need for security is attaining more attention. Hackers have always been renowned as a severe security threat. Ethical hacking is an important form of hacking. It is a type of hacking that doesn’t hurt any individual, association, or gathering. It is done with a positive intent to find out the security loop-holes in the current infrastructure of some organizations. The organization may patch its security vulnerabilities accordingly as suggested by ethical hackers. In this research work, a comparative analysis has been conducted for ethical hacking techniques. It classifies the existing techniques based on their working principles and compares the working mechanisms of all techniques. Graphical analysis of ethical hacking tools along with a score-based comparison is also part of this research. Moreover, the research can be useful in suggesting the most appropriate tool to be used for a particular scenario.