HYDERABAD INSTITUTE TO TRAIN ETHICAL HACKERS
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Date: 05/24/03
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Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 23:10:57 GMT
Hyderabad institute to train ethical hackers
By Mohammed Shafeeq
Indo-Asian News Service
Monday April 21, 2003
Hyderabad, Apr 21 (IANS) - A school to train "ethical
hackers" is to be established here in what is believed to
the first initiative of its kind in south Asia.
The school is being promoted by Hyderabad-based e2 Labs,
which designs national security infrastructure solutions
for governments, corporate houses and domestic users.
Making this announcement here Monday, Ankit Fadia, a 17-
year-old student who has authored a book on ethical
hacking, and e2 Labs CEO Zaki Qureshey said the school
was aimed at IT professionals, system administrators,
students, decision makers and those concerned about the
security of network infrastructure.
The school will explain the techniques used by hackers to
assess and attack corporate networks. The course
curriculum will also cover legal issues.
Fadia, who is a consultant to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) and several other organisations, felt that though
India was one of the leading software powers, it lagged
in computer security.
According to a report by Ernst & Young, India is the most
vulnerable country for cyber attacks. The country lacks
any awareness about computer security or professionals
and experts who can protect the networks and counter
hacking.
Fadia pointed out that Pakistani hacking groups were
hacking 50 to 60 Indian websites every year.
The training at the school will be conducted in three
modules with the fee structure ranges from Rs.25,000 to
Rs.75,000 for weekly or monthly courses.
A three-month long diploma course has also been designed.
According to Fadia, the country could no longer afford to
ignore this crucial issue at a time when it was facing
threats from a number of terrorist groups. He said the
key security institutes and laboratories were
increasingly becoming targets of hackers, who are also
stealing sensitive information.
The security and law enforcing agencies, Fadia believed,
were also not equipped to deal with such threats. He
pointed out that in the terrorist attack on the Indian
Parliament, the investigating agency found an encrypted
message.
"This aspect becomes even more important in times of war.
The country that uses encrypted messages and protects its
cyber space will win the war," Fadia contended.
Asked if the school will end up producing more hackers,
Fadia argued that nobody would be able to protect his
cyber space without knowing the techniques used by
hackers to pre-empt or counter attacks.
On a countrywide tour to create awareness about computer
security, Fadia said the demand for ethical hackers was
on the rise worldwide. Ethical hackers are becoming a
mainstay of the effort to secure corporate networks.
He felt that each website should have four to five
professionals dealing with Internet security.
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