This is a discussion of what do ethical hackers do. The discussion focuses on key practices, responsibilities, and roles of professional ethical hackers. It is based on work I completed in a uOttawa PhD thesis (2020) on the topic of ethical hacking sociotechnology. Key practices of ethical hackers include vulnerability scanning, vulnerability assessment (identifying/listing known software vulnerabilities), penetration […]
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This is a discussion of who are ethical hackers. It is based on work I completed in a uOttawa PhD thesis (2020) on the topic of ethical hacking sociotechnology. You may also be interested in What do ethical hackers do? An identity and legitimacy crisis Ethical hacking as a profession suffers from a stigma stemming from confusion surrounding
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This discussion of the penetration testing process is taken from my uOttawa PhD thesis (2020, pp. 126-137) titled Technoethics and sensemaking: Risk assessment and knowledge management of ethical hacking in a sociotechnical society (thesis advisory committee: uOttawa professors Rocci Luppicini, Liam Peyton, and Andre Vellino). You may also be interested in What do ethical hackers do? Steps of the penetration testing process To conduct a security
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This is a discussion of the technical hacking skills of ethical hackers – the foundational technical hacking skills for higher education students learning ethical hacking of computer systems. This synthesis is based on work I completed in a uOttawa PhD thesis (2020) on the topic of ethical hacking sociotechnology. You may also be interested in OSINT analyst competency areas.
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This is a discussion of the social hacking skills of ethical hackers – the “soft skills” or “ethics skills” needed to accompany the technical hacking skills when teaching higher education students ethical hacking of computer systems. The discussion is based on work I completed in a uOttawa PhD thesis (2020) on the topic of ethical
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This is a discussion of the ethics of teaching ethical hacking. It is based on my DTI uOttawa PhD thesis (2020) which explored ethical hacking teaching practices in Canadian higher education. You may also be interested in OSINT analyst competency areas. The ethics of ethical hacking The ethics of ethical hackers Social hacking skills The ethical
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My uOttawa PhD thesis exploring ethical hacking teaching practices in Canadian higher education, completed in 2020 at uOttawa engineering (the PhD in DTI uOttawa Program), contributed a set of implementable policy recommendations to inform effective ethical hacking teaching practices in computer science, computer engineering, and software engineering undergraduate programs – spanning instruction (approach), curricula content (what professional ethical hacking
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