I have been asked to provide justification for taking a class on Ethical Hacking and Counter Measures.
Tell me what you think. ****************************** Training Justification Class: Ethical Hacking and Counter Measures Vendor: IS Inc, (System Solutions) Internet technologies are both still relatively new and evolving. While the core of the technologies, programming languages and methodologies are easy to learn, security issues donât get brought up until itâs too late. Security issues tend to be more of a case of, you donât know what you donât know. Frequently you only learn of a weakness after it has been exploited. What is the cost of a successful attack? Well it can be the changing of the content on a web page, the deletion of an entire table from a database, shutting down of an entire system or the exposure the Governorâs personal emails (by something as simple as changing a url.variable). As a programmer I know when I canât get a piece of code to run correctly, the data doesnât come back as anticipated, or the program fails in some other visible means. However, how does a programmer know when there is security vulnerability in their code or on their server? Hacking and security have been underestimated and therefore not taught as part of learning how to program; besides there are new vulnerabilities and attack methodologies being deployed all the time. Security is a whole new science. Historically programs ran fairly isolated on mainframe systems or other isolated environments. Today when we deploy a program on the Internet it is there for the entire world to see; an open invitation to thousands of hackers with the sole intent of breaching our system. It is as though we have to provide our own military. Businesses and citizens have the comfort of existing within a State. The State has a military to protect its borders and a government to ensure that infrastructure is sound and the military adequate to protect the citizens and the businesses that reside within the State. Attacks are repelled at the border by the State provided military. In the world of web programming each application that is written serves as its own fortress. Sure there are servers, networks and those who administer them. They are all responsible for a level of security. However, failure of a programmer to adequately incorporate security measures allows for a Trojan horse to permeate the borders and wreak havoc from within. Failure of a system administrator allows for even greater damage. There is no State or military equivalent to protect our programs, systems and data. It is up to us to garner the knowledge of what we are up against and create procedures and protocols to protect ourselves. Failure to do so will only cost us more in time, resources, and embarrassment for having been caught unprepared. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227188 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
