Ethics of Ethical Hacking

Penetration testing uses offensive security techniques to help businesses protect their infrastructure and information. Many people wonder about our trademark tagline: "Professionally Evil," and we would like to discuss the benefits and ethics of what we do.

Yes, Secure Ideas makes a business of attempting to hack into business networks. This is called penetration testing, and it is a crucial part of any security plan. Our work protects the defenseless customers who trust their information to businesses daily, helps businesses find and fix their security vulnerabilities, and ensures a more secure IT world.

Protecting the Defenseless

In the world of information security, the defenseless people are business customers and website users who get targeted by thieves and hackers through no fault of their own. Secure Ideas' penetration testing works to protect your customers by identifying and rectifying security vulnerabilities before the business loses the customer's information to malicious attackers.

Part of protecting the defenseless is to go above and beyond the scant security requirements required by law. Per our customers' requests, we do honesty and criminal background checks to age of 18 on all our employees, and we carry general, professional, and cyber liability insurance to ensure our customers' information is safe when we perform penetration testing.

While both criminals and penetration testers use the same skill sets to exploit your infrastructure, one does it to exploit your customers, employees, or finances, and the other does it to protect the same. Who do you want on your site?

Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities

We find vulnerabilities through a group of talented and professional nerds who love computers, love coding, love Star Wars, and love finding that loophole in your security systems. Whether it is computer code, your building, or work processes, we test them all. Yes, we do this with integrity and our team members are all upstanding citizens and we have our own security processes in place. But, it is necessary to test your security system against the best that we can gather, so that the best that malicious agents can gather will not prevail against your organization.

After we test the security of your systems and processes, we help you fix the vulnerabilities we discovered so that attackers will not exploit those vulnerabilities in the future.

Ensuring a More Secure World

Each organization that employs penetration testers ensures that their infrastructure, information, and customers are less likely to be compromised. Although there are no guarantees in this world, penetration testers endeavor to provide the best processes and the most comprehensive review of your business so that your information is more secure. As the number of businesses who invest in penetration testing increases, the general state of security in our world will increase as well.