What's the difference between IT security and ethical hacking?

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Prerit Kohli
8 years ago
Hello, IT Security or Cyber Security is t e set of tools, knowledge and technology that is used to protect and guard systems and information from attack or from being hacked. Ethical hacking is one of the tool set used to test how secure the network is and is generally employed by the enterprise. In

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8 years ago
Ethical hacking - An ethical hacking usually employed by organization trust him or her attempt penetrate network/computers system using same method hack and fining computer security. Cyber security-the function cyber security professional is to protect data and system network connect to internet a h

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NITIN DESHMUKH
8 years ago
The function of a cybersecurity professional is to protect the data and systems in the network that are connected to the internet. A hacker tries to find loopholes in a system and break into it. The job of a cybersecurity professional is the same as of a typical hacker, albeit with a difference, I.

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8 years ago
In simpler terms, the difference between cyber security and ethical hacking is where ethical hacking is a computer & networking professional who systematically attempts to go into a computer system or network on behalf of its owners for the purpose of finding security vulnerabilities that a maliciou

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