We are aware that Companies have implemented one means to data be used and other means to minimize data losses (from its existence to becoming of legal e.g. Social networks) and to manage security risks to users (from its use by hackers). There is increasing concern to protect data and there are relatively new ways to control what is private from what is not. Ultimately, this can lead to unethical hacking as in the above-mentioned methods, it means to personal data of a company which could jeopardize reputation of such a company, can make the company lose commercial customers as well as business partners (so all ethical hack can harm brand image) and the code of ethics requires behavior's that cover all three scenarios.
Even though the issue of unethical hacking is now an established topic but still hasn't been defined in a real way, there are still multiple issues regarding these unethical actions:
1. Sneaking a file or data of the company
2. Inappropriate access to company's system.
3. Direct manipulation of business data.
4. Theft of data.
5. Slacking of security measures.
Another concern is the fact that even though there is certain law on what is acceptable to Hackers to do, those laws cover state law, so, any cyber-attacks can't be addressed only through legislative provisions. In general, organization's don't have the power to stop any ethical breach at the stage that it's happening, but the stakeholder groups can contribute to stakeholders in case of any fraud.
According to organization "get-rich-quick" hmethod, the amount of financial benefits from such ethical hacking would be worth the potential loss and reputation as well as maybe down fall of the company and the final good reputation of the company (if the company decide to manage the cost of any ethical breach and positive reputation).
But the question here is not only about financial benefits but also to impact the reputation and brand image of the organization, mainly the consumers of such products or services. It's so that consumer should have high expectations in terms of ethical code of conduct of the organization of their products or services. According to Ethical Hacker consulting firm report, the average consumers of my product or service also indicated that they want the ethical information to be available in any available marketing materials so that they can look more confidently in terms of buying such products or services (agreements to understand it with their company is a mandatory so that they could launch the products/services from their responsibility).
As per the definition of a company's business, there are two categories of ethical hacker:
1. Managed or Ciderhose hack
2. Unmanaged or Unmanaged ethical hacker
1. Managed ethical hackers. A managed ethical hacker does not hack company's system directly. The person who does this must meet certain criteria to join this category. But the other employees of the company should also agree to the ethical standards established by the company. In case the company doesn't implement any ethical standards, the company's team can't legally stop any ethical action. There are 3 major types of privileged access:
1. Employee access
2. Administrative access
3. Task access
By selecting any of the above privileges, company must demonstrate that ethical action has been taken while protecting business's data from personal, commercial, law enforcement etc. The data should be secured properly with proper password and other security measures.
According to term of ethical hacking,
Ethical hacker must have necessary knowledge (researching, training, running) to perform what he does. Thus, company's IT department takes the responsibility for this technicality and must ensure it makes it possible to effectively operate by their security team.
Nowadays the ethical hacker knows which computers to query through which biometric input is possible to check which systems in company owns, antivirus from other vendor, these are all technical requirement of the ethical hacker and he has also studied which network and intranet (cubicle networking of company) users can see company's information.
As for the managing ethical hacker, it is the company's responsibility that they monitor the security system's state and checking that these systems and system are in good condition, not patch or malware.
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