There are many methods available in the internet by which you can earn money online, one of the same way is to earn money by hacking.
We have already written many article in our blog on earn money online, with the help of which even an unemployed person can earn money.
Similarly, today we are going to discuss about ethical hacking, how you can earn money by becoming an ethical hacker.
If any of you is an ethical hacker or dreaming of becoming an ethical hacker in the future, how can such a person earn money for himself by using this skill.
So let's read this article today and see how you can earn money by becoming an ethical hacker.
What is Ethical hacking?
Ethical hacking is that hacking in which hacker following all the legal rules and laws with the permission of the hacker organization or system owner, by using hacking tools and techniques, hacking the system or site and trying to find its Vulnerability or Bug i.e. Penetration Testing. Do it and fix it, that action is called ethical hacking.
Hackers who do hacking in a legal way, that is ethical hacking, are called ethical hackers, not direct hackers, because these hackers do not use their knowledge to take advantage of the weakness of cyber security, but these hackers are in cyber space. To stop all the ways of hacking and increase cyber security.
What are the types of hackers?
There are three types of hacker.
Black hat hacker
White hat hacker
Gray hat hacker
1. Black hat hacker
Black hat hackers are those hackers who always use their knowledge for illegal actions, their intention is always to harm others.
These hackers try to gain unauthorized access to any network or system without permission and damage the system by doing different types of cyber attacks and steal sensitive information and misuse it. These hackers are also involved in cybercrime.
2. White hat hacker
White hat hackers are those hackers who always use their hacking knowledge in a completely legitimate and legal way, these hackers check the security of their computer or network with the permission of any company or organization or any individual, do Penetration Testing and Finding Vulnerability then removing that Vulnerability, these hackers always work to increase the security of the system.
Their intention is not to do illegal work, they are good hackers. Ethical hackers are also hackers of this category. Big companies hire ethical hackers to do security checks in their systems, for which they also give hefty packages.
3. Gray hat hacker
Gray hat hackers are those hackers who use their knowledge according to their mind, these hackers use their knowledge for both legal and illegal tasks.
Although their thinking is mostly not to harm, yet this category of hackers can sometimes do harm, so this category of hackers can neither be called good nor bad, in general, this hacker is white hat hacker and black hat hacker are a combination of both.
Often gray hat hackers look for vulnerabilities in systems without the permission or knowledge of the owner. If problems are found, they will report them to the system owner and request a fee to fix the problem.
How to become an Ethical Hacker?
So friends, we talk about how you can become an ethical hacker, if you have just passed your 12th class or if you are graduating in college then how are you can do Ethical Hacking Course.
There are many such Certificate Based Courses that you can do very easily to learn in the early stages. Remember friends, I have asked to do this kind of course just for learning, it is not that if you have done the course or if you get the certificate again, then you have become an ethical hacker.
There are many such ethical hackers who have not done any course, yet they are ethical hackers. You must be thinking that he has not done any courses, yet he is an ethical hacker, how?
Because friends, they have complete skills of ethical hacking, they have a lot of knowledge about how to do hacking. So remember if you have knowledge and you have not done any course then you will get job very easily in this field. Because the task of those who are ethical hackers is a very responsive task.
If a company calls you and says that you check the security of our website, then it is not a small task, it is a responsible task. So in this case you should have all the knowledge of your field. Knowledge whether you have taken the course or you have learned it by yourself.
On the Internet, you will find many such websites where you can learn ethical hacking, which is the main thing that you should know about ethical hacking.
Friends, I am going to tell you some such courses. I am going to tell about some such certificates which you can do to increase your knowledge. Friends, one more thing let me confirm to you that there is no such requirement in this field that you should be a student of Science, Arts, Commerce to become an ethical hacker. If you are from any stream, you can become an ethical hacker.
Which course to do to become an Ethical Hacker?
Ethical hacking is a part of Cyber Security. And Cyber Security is part of Information Technology. So to become an ethical hacker, you must have basic knowledge of this field.
Now we talk that if you do not know basic things and now still want to become an ethical hacker, then first of all find why you want to become an ethical hacker, do you really have interest, if you have interest then you can do it.
If you want to know about the basic information of hacking, then you have to read the books of computer from 5th class to 10th class. And know what the basic things are.
Which degree to do to become an ethical hacker?
If you are in 10th class now or if you want to do any degree then what degree can you do which you can become Ethical Hacker.
First of all let me tell you that if you are a student of Science then you can do B.Tech Computer Science, you can do BSC IT, I am recommending it in all degrees because all these degrees are related to Computer Science, IT. Because after doing this you will get the knowledge from Basics to Advance.
Now let us talk about what you can do to become an ethical hacker if you are a student of arts or a student of commerce. You have the option of doing BCA, BCA means "Bachelor Computer Application" in which you are taught about Coding, you are told about things from Basic to Advance of computer. In this, you are told about computer languages, apart from this you learn about Database, Security. One more thing let me tell you that this BCA can also be done by a student of science.
Way to earn money by ethical hacking
1. Bug bounty program
The first way is by which you can earn money by doing ethical hacking and that way is to participate in bug bounty program.
This is a program in which many ethical hackers earn money by participating. This program is sponsored by many big companies in which a large number of ethical hackers participate.
In this program, ethical hacker are paid for finding bugs and after that those companies are able to make their product better.
2. Penetration Testing
There is another way by which you can earn money by doing ethical hacking and that way is through penetration testing.
You can also earn money through Penetration Testing, in Penetration Testing you have to test the new product of companies and find out its shortcomings, so that they can make their product better, in return for this work the company gives you money.
3. Jobs
There is a third way by which you can earn money by doing ethical hacking and that is the way of job. You can earn money by protecting companies.
There are many companies who become victims of hacking, to avoid hacking, those companies employ ethical hackers, so that ethical hackers protect their companies from black hat hacker, so that black hat hackers cannot hack their systems.
4. Teach others
There is a fourth way by which you can earn money from ethical hacking and that is the way to teach ethical hacking to others.
You can earn money by teaching others the knowledge you have, you can earn money by teaching ethical hacking to people.
You can teach people through YouTube channel or you can prepare a course on ethical hacking. You can earn money by using all these methods.