How Does This Stuff Relate to an Ethical Hacking Book?

Corporations and individuals need to understand how these attacks and losses are taking place so they can understand how to stop them. The vast amount of functionality that is provided by organizations’ networking, database, e-mail, instant messaging, remote access, and desktop software is also the thing that attackers use against them. There is an all too familiar battle of functionality versus security within every organization. This is why in most environments the security officer is not the most well-liked individual in the company. Security officers are in charge of ensuring the overall security of the environment, which usually means reducing or shutting off many functionalities that ...

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